RE: Member of Congress Among 5 Reportedly Shot at Baseball Field
June 15, 2017 at 5:29 pm
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2017 at 5:54 pm by Brian37.)
(June 15, 2017 at 2:46 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Republicunt asswipe who voted against every piece of legislation on Background Checks now wants to know more about the "background" of the guy who shot his buddy.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/14/...=emaildkre
Quote:Republican who voted against background checks wants to know background of Scalise's shooter
Fuck you, Brooks.
NO shit, not even when their own get shot at do they want to do anything. This is just insanity. It should not matter if it was a disturbed liberal or a disturbed tea party nut, we still have way too many mass shootings in this country.
(June 15, 2017 at 5:07 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (June 15, 2017 at 4:53 pm)A Theist Wrote: Aren't you the high minded pompous ass. Are you asking a question or making a statement? I'm also curious to know what leads once seemingly normal people to support leftwing parties only to end up mentally unbalanced.
I asked two questions.... and was hoping for some civilized discourse.
I am truly curious about what sort of policies the right wing parties sponsor and propose that the common people think are good for the whole country.
From my experience, right wing parties concern themselves mostly with supporting businesses and business owners. Everyone who is not in this category, I wouldn't expect to be supportive of such parties... and yet... that's not what we see. I don't get it and am interested in understanding it.
Truth is there really is nothing to discuss. This shit happens year after year decade after decade. If the laws the GOP always gets worked, nobody would be bitching.
You want civilized discourse? That cant happen with the unreasonable and right now the GOP is bat shit insane and totally unreasonable.
(June 15, 2017 at 1:45 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (June 14, 2017 at 11:51 pm)Minimalist Wrote: And then we can do the same thing the next time and the next time and the next time and the next time and the next....................................................
I don't see how taking this opportunity to bash Republicans when Republicans were just murdered for being Republican is going to be at all productive or do any sort of good. Which is precisely what I was seeing most of here when I made that post. Though I haven't read the last several pages, so don't know if the tune has changed since.
Holy crap, this is the same lack of understanding mistaking rightful anger for being pro violence. This is why far too many whites in America cannot understand why blacks respond when one ends up dead in the hands of law enforcement.
Ok, let me see if this helps.
We know how hurricanes form but that does not mean we want the hurricane to effect us. We know tornados exist and the conditions that can lead to them, but that does not mean we want to get killed by one.
Nobody was justifying what the guy did, NOBODY. But the long term economic conditions the GOP have set up since Reagan can cause disenfranchised desperate individuals to do destructive things. It is the same thing that will also cause a tea party nut to shoot cops.
You don't reduce events like this by ignoring the root causes. The root causes are wages are not meeting the cost of living. Health care is sky rocketing, and ease of access to weapons.
If they throw 24 million off of health care it wont just be democrats angry at them, lots of republicans will feel just as duped and be just as angry. You simply cannot explode the pay gap and create more and more desperate people and then expect them not to be desperate.
An explanation is not excuse making. The GOP is responsible for these events happening because they have since the 1980s obstructed any and all attempts at trying to reduce events like this. Trump spent his campaign claiming he'd fight for the small guy, and the sane knew that was a load of crap, but on top of that he sold hate and demagoguery.
This didn't happen overnight. This was 36 years in the making. And unfortunately even back in 1984 murdering 26 women children and men in a California McDonalds wasn't enough to make any changes. Columbine maybe? Nope. Newtown? Nope still nothing.
Nobody is condoning the shooting, but this keeps happening because one party cares more about protecting the profits of one industry than they do about lives.