So, what do you think?

It seems to me guns are more important to the Republicans' than children, yes?

WHY?

It would seem some people that are decision makers do have their limit to violence and the death of children.

May 26, 2022

By Andrew Mark Miller

The company (click here) that manufactured the rifle used in a school shooting in Texas on Tuesday has canceled its plan to appear at an upcoming National Rifle Association meeting.

"Daniel Defense is not attending the National Rifle Association (‘NRA’) meeting due to the horrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas where one of our products was criminally misused," Steve Reed, Vice President of Marketing for Daniel Defense, told Fox News Digital in a statement Thursday. "We believe this week is not the appropriate time to be promoting our products in Texas at the NRA meeting."

It was revealed this week during a press conference from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that 18-year-old Salvador Ramos used a Daniel Defense DDM4 V7 rifle that retails for just under $2,000 when he opened fire at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday and killed 19 schoolchildren and 2 faculty members....

Oh, yeah, let's arm teachers. The problem is that is a heck of a gun for show and tell. Where do you put it when there is playground duty?

185 dead. What is the big deal? It isn't like genocide or something.

Americans are not seeing the war zone, the flag draped coffins or the bullet riddled bodies. It isn't real. It is someone else's problem. Oh, ya know, it is Texas again. I look at it this way; when parents in the USA lose a child to violence they become activists. Sooner or later there will be enough to turn the tide. 

May 25, 2022
By Alyssa Rosenberg

It is just another school shooting in the USA. (click here) 

Click here for the speeches to calm the crowds and ensure the gun manufacturers are protected and profits are still rolling in.(click here)

On the surface, contemporary America (click here) seems very distant from the world of Greek tragedy or the Toltec capital of Tula in 950 A.D. But our societies have something in common. We all practice child sacrifice.

The latest young victims of the ritual slaughter our culture permits are the 19 children shot to death inside their school in Uvalde, Tex., on Tuesday.

The massacre brings the total number of children killed in school shootings since the 1999 Columbine attack to 185. That figure doesn’t account for all the other settings in which children have been the victims of mass gun violence. And it doesn’t include the 311,000 children who were injured in school shootings, witnessed their classmates and teachers being shot, or sought shelter in barricaded classrooms, bathrooms and closets.

Given the lack of action after these spasms of butchery, there is only one possible conclusion: We are willing to tolerate the murder of children. We accept events that will gravely wound the bodies and psyches of many others....

It isn't as though it is Palestine or something. We still have law and order yet. 

Boys watch as the body of 18-month-old Palestinian boy Eliyan al-Bashiti is carried during his funeral procession in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunes 08 May 2003. The toddler died yesterday hours after being shot in the neck, as Israeli forces guarding a Jewish settlement opened fire on a refugee camp in Khan Yunes, where the houses are riddled with bullet holes and scars from shell fire. The boy's death brought to 3,211 the number of people killed since the Palestinian uprising against occupation erupted in September 2000, including 2,421 Palestinians and 730 Israelis, according to an AFP count.

The Grand Ole Party ain't so grand. They are a lot of do nothing to protect cronies.

They are very invested in doing nothing. The plans they have made are more important than the country.

May 26, 2022
By Catie Edmondson

Senate Republicans (click here) on Thursday blocked action on a bill aimed at strengthening the federal government’s efforts to combat domestic terrorism, rejecting a measure put forward by Democrats in the wake of a racist massacre in which a gunman motivated by white supremacist ideology killed 10 Black people in a Buffalo supermarket.

Democratic leaders had framed the procedural vote as the best vehicle for quick action on gun violence prevention measures in the wake of the elementary school shooting this week in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.

If Republicans allowed it to move forward, said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, he would open the bill up to proposed changes from both parties to address gun violence.

“It’s a chance to have a larger debate and consider amendments for gun safety legislation in general, not just for those motivated by racism — as vital as it is to do that,” Mr. Schumer said, imploring Republicans to allow the debate to open. “I know that many members on the other side hold views that are different than the views on this side of the aisle. So let us move on this bill. Let us proceed.”

But Republicans voted against even considering the measure, arguing that the bill was unnecessary and defined extremism in a way that could be too broadly construed by law enforcement. The vote was 47-47, leaving Democrats short of the 60 needed to move forward on the bill....

Nothing is going to happen on gun control either. It is Sandy Hook all over again and nothing ever changes. The GOP is corrupted to the core and it shows with these efforts and the abortion legislation. Nothing ever is resolved to help the people. The Democrats always have to have controlling majorities otherwise nothing gets done.

May 26, 2022
By Carl Hulse

The calculation behind Republicans’ steadfast opposition to any new gun regulations — even in the face of the kind of unthinkable massacre that occurred Tuesday at an elementary school in Texas — is a fairly simple one for Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota.

Asked Wednesday what the reaction would be from voters back home if he were to support any significant form of gun control, the first-term Republican had a straightforward answer: “Most would probably throw me out of office,” he said.

His response helps explain why Republicans have resisted proposals such as the one for universal background checks for gun buyers, despite remarkably broad support from the public for such plans — support that can reach up to 90 percent nationwide in some cases.

The reality is that that 90 percent figure probably includes some Republicans who are open to new laws, but would not clamor for them or punish a lawmaker for failing to back them, and the 10 percent opposed reflect the sentiments of the G.O.P. base, which decides primary contests and is zealous in its devotion to gun rights....