Saying No To Common Sense Gun Laws

Those AR-15s really are the weapon of choice, aren’t they?

From this:

Soon after (Texas governor Gregg) Abbott announced the death of the children and a teacher at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas, about 130 km west of San Antonio, a 2015 tweet resurfaced where he called upon Texans to buy more guns. “I’m EMBARRASSED: Texas is #2 in the nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let’s pick up the pace, Texans.”

I’m not sure how proud this piece of human pond scum is today, but that’s beside the point.

We talk a great deal about sustainability here.  It would be slick and convenient to say that this is unsustainable, but that’s not really true.  This sickening phenomenon could continue endlessly into the future.

It’s true that:

• We live in a country that has more guns than it has people.

• Our lawmakers understanding that introducing legislation that has even a minuscule effect on limiting gun rights will mean the end of their careers.

• We’re less than 40% through 2022, but the United States has already seen more than 200 mass shootings.  Unless little children or large numbers of people are murdered senselessly, these incidents go largely unnoticed, as they are too frequent to make national news.

More to the point, with each passing year, our population becomes more ignorant, and thus prone to violence.  The U.S. finds itself in the unique position that daily (sometimes twice daily) mass shootings are seen as a completely acceptable price to pay for the right of unscreened people, many of them actively homicidal, to carry assault weapons.

The gun people want you to think there isn’t a goddamn thing you can do about all this, but let’s not buy into that.  Let’s stay noisy.