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Doocy asked one of the most disgusting questions ever and Karine made him pay for it.
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) June 4, 2022
I don’t know if Doocy seriously underestimated the new WH press secretary, or if he misses getting verbally slapped around that much. Maybe both!
Monday Morning Open Thread: Guns & InsurrectionistsPost + Comments (389)
There is zero incentive for firearms manufacturers to not actively hope their specific make and model product is what was used in a massacre. Sales always spike.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 5, 2022
Sunday Evening Open Thread: GOP Death Cult Defends Its MolochPost + Comments (46)
President Joe Biden urged Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks and implement other sensible gun control measures to address a string of mass shootings that have struck the United States https://t.co/hhKWQQ7ucW pic.twitter.com/IWi7whDNhK
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 3, 2022
Adding to what Betty said below, this part of the article stood out the most to me:
According to The Washington Post, the latest shooter (the one at the Tulsa medical complex, in case you don’t have your mass shooting spree card handy) bought his AR-15 about three hours before the rampage:
The gunman who killed four people at a Tulsa hospital on Wednesday blamed a doctor at the facility for ongoing pain after back surgery and vowed to kill him and anyone who got in his way, police said Thursday.
Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin told reporters that Michael Louis bought an AR-15-style weapon on the same day as the attack, killing St. Francis Hospital doctors Preston Phillips and Stephanie Husen. Two other victims were identified as William Love, a patient, and Amanda Green, a receptionist.
As the late great Janis Joplin once said, “It’s all the same fucking day, man.”
There’s not a ton of cause for optimism that we’ll see real gun safety reform at the federal level since the U.S. Senate is a catastrophically dysfunctional institution. But maybe red flag laws, waiting periods and age limits have a shot at the state level, especially if gun safety activists push for the measures while the state in question is still reeling from a mass shooting. We’ll see.
Open thread.
ETA: President Biden will give a prime time address tonight (7:30 PM ET) on mass shootings and “urge Congress to pass ‘common-sense laws’ in response,” according to a WaPo news alert that just popped up on my phone.
If you think this comic was hard to read, believe me, it was much harder to draw.
— Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling (@RubenBolling) May 31, 2022
There’s all kinds of arguments to be made about whether Collector Personality is the socio-evolutionary result of our descent from only the most successful hunter-gatherers, or a form of OCD shading into anxiety disorder, or where the line between those states is drawn. But honestly — I *am* a Collector, and couldn’t these people just (re)focus on some less deadly toys?
(I suppose you could smash a collector plate and use it as a weapon, or smother someone in a pile of fabric quarters, but… )
I think the maddest I ever made gun people was when I pointed out an assault rifle and a Prada bag have the same price range.
— The Substack of Boba Fett (@agraybee) May 30, 2022
