and their denial of gun violence, like so many other anti-social stances they embody, costs innocent people grief, hardship, and death.

But noooo

Or buried by corporate media…as it might reflect badly on one of only Two Parties pouring billions into ad money accounts almost continuously.

One Party falls, the Party is over for the corporate media.

I woke up this morning to local news; Mother wounded 11 year old daughter killed in N Dallas home, Police: 4 dead in shooting at Dallas apartment building, Texas man left chilling voicemails for podcaster he stalked, killed (shot) and that's just the white people.

More guns more death. There is simply no way to phrase it any differently.

Yet the gunners say it's not the gun, it's the people using them. When a suggestion is made to better screen the people using them the gunners find a way to prevent it happening. A snake eating it's own tail . . .

has become tone deaf to gun violence, just as they have become immune to right-wing hypocrisy, corruption, and outright lies. We must get out the Democratic vote and save the USA from itself as we have done before. Sane and honest Americans are in the majority -- we just need to motivate them to actually get off their butts and vote.

Indeed, "...the gunners say it's not the gun, it's the people using them."

And the people using the guns are the people who wanted guns.
A wanting begets a getting and a getting begets a(b)using. b = killing.

The desire for guns is the root of the problem.
Every gun owner is a gardener of gore; watering the problem right down to the roots and breeding for the best blood-letter.

The people who need to be deeply investigated are those who want guns.
The problem is psychological.
Upon that are layers of sociopathic and psychopathic self-identities wrapped up in gun-lust.

"It is not clear at this point if anyone will face charges."
https://abc13.com/child-shot-killed-toddler-gains-access-to-gun-3-year-old-shoots-4-year-old/12947339/

Which charges? Reckless child endangerment, manslaughter, accessory to a crime with a firearm? I'm sure that a creative prosecutor could come up with several logical and pertinent laws which were broken in this case. 5 adults in the home and no one was watching the babies?

I guess I forgot that this happened in Texas, and the 3-year-old was just standing her ground.

criminally negligent homicide for the owner of the gun AND for the adults who were in charge of the children at the time.

The nug lobby has fought hard to prevent any mandates on design or safety

So, why "can" a 3 year old fire a handgun? It's because most semi-automatic handguns are tactical weopons and don't have active safeties. Glock is famous for this. They have a passive safety that will prevent the nug from firing if you drop it, but any light pressure against the trigger will fire the gun. The trigger pressures are so low any 3 year old could fire one.

But if that nug had a lever that had to me physically moved, and a trigger pressure a 3 year old couldn't manage, then a lot fewer people would be shot. Just google "glock knee". Even weopons instructors have accidently shot themselves holstering their nugs.

But Noooooooo. Can't have anything that will slow down killing someone!

In comparrison, just about every revolver sold befor the glock phenom had an active safety and required a stronger finger pull.

Which kid was the “good guy with a gun?”

This is a disgusting scar on American society. Like racism, it’s never going away.

What is the #1 cause of death for children?

Firearms are now the number one cause of death for children in the United States, but rank no higher than fifth in 11 other large and wealthy countries, a new KFF analysis finds. Jul 8, 2022

https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/press-release/firearms-are-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-in-the-united-states-but-rank-no-higher-than-fifth-in-other-industrialized-nations/

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> Almost 28% rise in the number of children killed during the pandemic, when we were all staying home.

> A 52% increase in firearm injuries during the pandemic, when we were all staying home.


Almost sounds as if home is more dangerous for kids, than schools, as far as guns go.

(web version of the story)

As many times as it takes until people take notice.

Nah, who am I trying to kid. No better how many SENSIBLE people take notice of this, we'll never have truly sensible gun control laws as long as the firearms industry has most of the GOP lawmakers in their pocket, and as long as those lawmakers can use the 2nd amendment as an excuse to resist passing such laws

I am as devoted to most of he U.S. Constitution as anyone here, if I said what I really think of the 2nd amendment....... never mind, I won't say it. Have this instead:

And now I see that I replied twice to the same comment. THAT is how upset this whole issue makes me, in case you couldn't tell.