Katy Perry to gun violence survivor on American Idol: “Our country has fucking failed us.” pic.twitter.com/pJvuO0bwlg
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) February 27, 2023
… It will stop.
I know we’re all resigned to gun violence as a permanent ongoing presence in American lives (much like the coronavirus pandemic), but once the gun-humpers have lost American Idol, well…
It’s not gonna be quick and it’s not gonna be easy, but Murphy the Trickster God willing, the blood wave has crested and will eventually recede.
The ammosexuals’ increasingly unhinged extinction burst isn’t doing their cause any favors, either.
gosh, I wonder how that definitely-not-proud-boy looks from behind…
Perfectly normal stuff. https://t.co/COskvSbyPa pic.twitter.com/ol1X81AsM0— Christian Heinzel (@chheinzel) February 27, 2023
War for Ukraine Day 372: Something Appears To Have Gone Boom Outside of Moscow
lowtechcyclist
From your lips to the deity of your choice’s ears.
Baud
For those who care.
lowtechcyclist
And have I mentioned how misappropriation of ‘tactical’ to mean anything vaguely military- or armament-related bugs the hell out of me? I saw one ad mentioning a ‘tactical flashlight.’ I guess the flashlight can give you advice on tactics?
Alison Rose
I ain’t clicking but WTF is “Perce|eption” did someone shoot the word and now it’s broken in two. Also it just makes the URL look like there was a typo so I hope they also bought it with the correct spelling. Or if not, someone else should and have it redirect to the Everytown website.
Also LOLOLOLOL “tactical athlete” give me a fucking break.
Alison Rose
@lowtechcyclist: It only works if you aim it on the best path to take on the paintball course
Bostondreams
Hey, look, legislation in Florida would require BLOGGERS to register with the state if they write anything about the governor or his administration if they make even 1 penny in doing so.
I don’t get how this is even close to constitutional.
Roger Moore
@lowtechcyclist:
What bothers me far more than the terminology is the way people think they need this stuff. Sorry, dude, you do not need gear that will give you a tiny advantage in a gun fight when you go to the supermarket, and thinking you do shows you are profoundly mentally unwell.
dmsilev
@lowtechcyclist: My employer has an Office of Strategic Communications (what in a past, less buzzwordy era, would be the PR department), and I’ve often thought we need to pair that with an Office of Tactical Communications.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
And it was quick! Sentencing hearing at 9:30 a.m. EST tomorrow.
Steeplejack
@lowtechcyclist:
C’mon, man. We’re all tactical bloggers here.
MagdaInBlack
@Alison Rose: Smith n Wesson misspelled it twice in the same post….perceeption the second time.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Yeah, once you admit to lying, your goose cooked. Having recently served on a jury, I can say that once the jurors have concluded you’re dishonest, they’ll discount anything you say. Flat out admitting you lied to the police is going to make the jury think you’re probably lying to them, too.
M31
ah, having flashbacks to the calls for “Blogger Ethics Panels” from like 2004
lowtechcyclist
@Steeplejack:
Nah, man, I blog strategically.
;-)
kalakal
@lowtechcyclist: You’re not alone. As far as I can see it simply means that if it’s metal someones put a cheap black ion coating on it. If it’s not metal they slap a camoflage pattern on it.
I’m thinking of marketing a range of ‘Strategic’ shoddily made pseudo military crap. Confuse the shit out of the dimbos.
Amir Khalid
@lowtechcyclist:
Get the strategic flashlight. It’s even cooler than the tactical one.
citizen dave
@Steeplejack: Just realized, Murdaugh, Murder. Seems open and shut to me. Will there be a Grisham book or something?
I had the ABC News broadcast on tonight, and most of their summation was on the defense arguments. Finally I thought, the prosecution surely had some idea he was the guy if they charged him. Also learned he was placed at the scene, so… (Have intentionally tried not to follow it)
RevRick
I wish I could share Anne Laurie’s optimistic take. The gun culture is deeply embedded in a certain ideology of masculinity. It is rooted in sick fears of others (white supremacy) and warped hero fantasies (white supremacy). You know, the whole “good guy with a gun” garbage. Getting rid of guns in our culture will require the systematic stigmatizing of that belief system upon which its built.
It will require a head-on assault on the claim of a good guy with a gun. It will require a willingness to counter claim by saying that there is no such thing as a good guy with a gun. You own a gun, you’re a bad guy. Period. The possession of a gun indicates a warped soul. Period.
Of course, claiming that will spark fury in all gun owners.
Jackie
This isn’t parody!
Trump And Jan. 6 Prisoners Collaborate On New Song Called ‘Justice For All’
“Donald Trump and a group of individuals incarcerated for their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot have collaborated on a song called “Justice for All.” It will debut Thursday at midnight on streaming services, including Apple Music and Spotify, according to a person with knowledge of the project.
The track interpolates Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance into “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which is performed by a group of about 20 inmates, called the J6 Prison Choir, housed at the Washington, D.C. jail. The song ends with the inmates chanting, “USA!”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2023/03/02/trump-and-jan-6-prisoners-collaborate-on-new-song-called-justice-for-all/
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Bostondreams: The pen is mightier than the sidearm. They afraid Betty Cracker gonna be toppling governments.
Argiope
Katy is all of us. 5 years ago I lost my impulsive, beautiful, hilarious and in retrospect, in-crisis cousin to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She and her husband were gun-humpers. He did not remove the firearms from her reach even when she was talking suicide. I’m sure it never occurred to him. Her brother, a police officer, was called to the scene first by her husband, to address the issue. Even though he (my cousin) voluntarily did many tours as a SEAL when he wasn’t stateside being a cop, and has undoubtedly Seen Some Shit, I feel sure he did not need to see that. She was 46. She sang as Stevie Nicks in a Fleetwood Mac cover band. It’s only now that I’m able to listen to their music with some enjoyment again. I know so few Americans now who haven’t personally been touched by guns one way or another. We’re all two degrees of separation or less, it seems, and it just keeps on sucking. Who wants to live like this?
Baud
@Jackie:
Gauntlet thrown, DeSantis.
Ladyraxterinok
@Bostondreams:
Would this affect someone like Betty Cracker who doesn’t ‘own’ a blog but posts on one?
eclare
@lowtechcyclist: Same here with the word tactical, it’s an epidemic.
Baud
@eclare:
A tactical epidemic.
AM in NC
@RevRick: And I think another way to change this is to frame (male) gun owners as scaredy-cats. Mock the big manly men who can’t walk around suburbia without pissing their pants unless they have a gun.
If young female pop stars, models, actresses and influencers started talking about how they and their grandmas can brave the mean streets without packing heat, how insecure and scared must those big guys be if they need a gun to feel safe, I think we’d see changed attitudes among young men. It turns the gun humpers’ masculinity argument completely on its head.
eclare
@Argiope: That is tragic.
kalakal
One of my favourite bits of gunhumper cognitive dissonance can be summed up in this syllogism
People who are anti gun ownership are elitists who don’t trust other people*
I need to carry a gun to protect myself from other people*
Haddock live in trees
* comments I have heard from every ammosexual no
RevRick
@Argiope: Over the years as a pastor I’ve dealt with six suicides, most by guns. The trauma lasts and sometimes proves to be contagious.
I can scarcely imagine your pain.
Bill Arnold
@lowtechcyclist:
My mind chose to misread that as “tactical fleshlight”, for the lulz.
LOL Alibaba sells the typo.
delphinium
@Roger Moore: Yeah, I would like to see how many guys with all of this stuff have actually taken out a shooter, am guessing it is a very minuscule number. And obviously unarmed people have taken out shooters, so a gun isn’t a necessary requirement. Just seems like a really odd way to live; rather than being aware of your surroundings, paying attention when someone is acting strange, and getting away if someone does start shooting, they figure they’ll override that natural instinct and have the wherewithal to stay and fight.
delphinium
@Argiope: So sorry you lost your cousin.
Dopey-o
when we are in charge, you can own any weapon you wish, in order to protect your Home & Family. But once you take a weapon off your property, the handgun / rifle / anti-tank rocket is confiscated. Bear those arms all you want, but we don’t want / need them in civil society.
eclare
@delphinium: Lots of unarmed people recently. The kid in the dance hall in CA and the guy at the drag show in CO come to mind.
RevRick
@AM in NC: gun culture masculinity is highly defensed. Their sense of self as some sort of martial heroes needs to be dismantled. I’m in favor of any tactic that serves that purpose.
Argiope
@RevRick: It’s tough, but more for her mom and my dad, her uncle. I’ve found some peace with it, but I’m still mad every anniversary. It’s just such a senseless loss, and really didn’t need to happen. As I say, she was impulsive. If she hadn’t had access to that gun, I have no doubt she’d be here now. Of course, there are many deniers in the family who tell themselves she would have found another way if the gun hadn’t been there. But my sister and I know it was the gun. The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger also pulls the finger. I’m sorry you’ve had so many parishioners affected. So much secondary trauma and loss.
FelonyGovt
Seeing elementary school kids have to go through active shooter drills breaks my heart.
Bostondreams
@Ladyraxterinok: Apparently the key is if you make money from the blog/post if I understand correctly.
SiubhanDuinne
@lowtechcyclist:
@Alison Rose:
I know. It’s like every fall everybody just slaps “pumpkin spice” on everything. Pumpkin spice coffee, pumpkin spice spinach dip, pumpkin spice knee socks, pumpkin spice motor oil. Or, y’know, tactical spinach dip, tactical motor oil, etc. Makes just as much sense.
Bill Arnold
@Argiope:
It was the gun. Other methods require much longer sustained intent. The Second Amendment, specifically the most recent Supreme Court misinterpretations of it (DC v Heller 2008+), enabled by its ambiguous language, is a National Curse.
(Mostly.)
SiubhanDuinne
@Bostondreams:
Forget it,
JakeBostondreams. It’s Florida.Chetan Murthy
Tactleneck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FYJfEHOuY0&t=2s
Elizabelle
The WaPost’s satirist, Alexandra Petri, reviews some recent offerings: ‘Cocaine Bear’ and ‘The Courage to Be Free’ by Ron DeSantis: A review
frosty
True. My cousin’s daughter was shot in the head in Las Vegas. She survived and is recovering. Many others who’ve been touched don’t have this result to hang on to.
Steeplejack
@lowtechcyclist:
Touché.
Mike G
@eclare: A few years ago there was a truck advertised as using “military grade” steel, a technically meaningless term meant to sound impressive to flag-humper keyboard warriors. It was promptly laughed at by actual veterans familiar with the crap equipment commonly procured by the military.
RevRick
@Argiope: You’re right about the trigger pulling the finger. Statistics claim women attempt suicide three times more than men, but men commit suicide three times more than women. And the difference is that men use guns, while women overwhelmingly use other methods.
The presence of a gun in a home significantly increases the dangers of suicide and homicide.
RevRick
@Bill Arnold: You’re right. Up until the egregious Heller decision, no court in the US had ever found an individual right to own a gun.
Paul in KY
@Roger Moore: That cell phone footage his son shot at the kennels is what really nailed him.
Paul in KY
@RevRick: It actually goes back much further than that.
Paul in KY
@Jackie: Any monies will go to TFG and not his chumps.
Paul in KY
@delphinium: Must say it always helps to bring a gun to a gun fight. Best thing to do is get away fast.
Paul in KY
@eclare: They are both heroes!
O. Felix Culpa
An acquaintance shot himself on NYE, in front of his wife. They had hosted a big party (which we left early because I hate being out on NYE), too much alcohol was imbibed leading to a quarrel with some of the attendees. The remaining details are unclear, but apparently on an impulse he went into his bedroom and shot himself with his (of course) unsecured gun. The family trauma is massive. There were grandchildren living with them. The youngest is six.
psychobroad
@Bostondreams: It’s not. Nor are any of the other laws red states are frantically passing.