Robert Card, an Army reservist with a history of mental health issues, is suspected of killing at least 18 people at multiple locations in Maine on Wednesday.
Hours before the rampage, the Senate voted 53-45 to adopt an amendment making it easier for veterans with mental disabilities to get guns. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/senate-adopts-amendment-veterans-mental-issues-guns-1234863402/
@RollingStone So, when white people go on mass shooting sprees, it's not blamed on their race/religion, but their mental health.
Then when we want to limit people with mental health issues from having access to guns, we can't even do that?
Christ what a shithole country.
Encouraging gun violence is what Republicans are bribed ... ahem..."funded" to do by the gun lobby.
Republicans view these mass tragedies as opportunities to rake it in.
Who and how many die are irrelevant to the GOP.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/03/nra-lawsuit-giffords-trump-republicans/
https://www.axios.com/2022/05/25/ted-cruz-lawmakers-money-gun-rights-groups
Republican billionaires fund malign influence campaigns solely to blameshift
They attack women's civil rights to coerce birth rate increases, & avoid awkward conversations about low wages, student debt, unaffordable housing, & no #medicare4all
They attack LGBTQ+ civil rights as punishment for not voting GOP & buy bigoted evangelicals' votes
They attack democracy to thwart: gun safety, climate action, covid mitigation, Ukraine's military aid, and especially taxation
@Npars01 @C0ppert0p @RollingStone
"They attack democracy to thwart: gun safety, climate action, covid mitigation, Ukraine's military aid, and especially taxation"
And voting. Someone saw that quote about how the wealthy will never let you vote to take away their wealth and took it to the logical extreme.
Think about how the wealthy monetize crisis.
The GOP are seeing a huge increase in their bribes...ahem..."campaign finance" while:
1. "Praying" (for what, we don't know, most likely praying for another mass death event soon because it brings in the cash)
2. Blameshifting (To Biden, to law enforcement, to mental health, all while thwarting funding)
3. Disinformation narratives that incite the next round of violence. And cash from more gun purchases
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/corporate-america-silent-recent-mass-shootings-experts/story?id=85083622
There's a some parallels in history. The wealthy monetizing crisis.
After WW1, the wealthy decided the Weimar Republic really needed some out of control inflation.
Let's quickly recoup our losses from WW1 by massively increasing prices during a recession. We'll fund disinformation blaming the disabled, LGBTQ, Gypsies, Slavs, and Jews. We will restore monarchies & aristocracy threatened by democracy and keep our kleptocracy.
Instead they got a fascist movement, Hitler & WW2
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In today's world, we have the wealthy doing this...
After the covid pandemic, the wealthy decided to quickly recoup their losses through price inflation.
They funded malign influence narratives to blame the poor, childless women, migrants, LGBTQ, and Jews. We can restore the oil oligarchy threatened by climate action and keep frying the planet.
Instead they got an anti-democracy movement called MAGA, Trump, & a WW3?
The first major legislation House Republicans passed under newly installed Speaker Mike Johnson would cut billions of dollars in consumer rebates for energy efficiency upgrades included in President Joe Biden’s signature climate law.
When journalists describe a Republican as a "climate skeptic", they mean he's owned and operated by the oil despots, foreign and domestic, attacking democracy.
#kochnetwork , Russia, and OPEC
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/climate/mike-johnson-climate-policies.html
"...easier for veterans with mental disabilities to get guns."
Do they even effing HEAR themselves?!?
@RollingStone Yes, ha ha, gotcha... but the fact remains that there is no correlation between any form of mental illness and a likelihood of shooting people, individually or en masse. There's no more reason to outlaw guns for mentally ill people than for blondes.
The two things that DO go with mass shootings are white supremacist beliefs and a history of domestic violence. Take guns away from the bigots and the stalkers, and you'll actually see less of this.
Studies: Gun Massacre Deaths Dropped During Assault Weapons Ban, Increased After Expiration.
Gun massacres fell 37% while ban was in place, rose by 183% after ban expired.
@RollingStone 53 senators voted to make it easier for veterans to either shoot themselves or other humans around them to death - or both!
When corruption goes hand in hand with utterly depraved indifference to human life.
It's despicable!
#SaveLives #GunReduction #GunEpidemic #GunControl #GunControlNow #GunOverkill #BanTheGOP #BanTheNRA #Corruption #Bribery #ClassAction #CriminallyNegligentManslaughter #GetBetterRepresentatives
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