High school shooting in Parkland FL

[Rev. Rye]

Meanwhile, Sessions DOJ is reducing the amount of funding for gun control measures already on the books and further de-fanging the ATF through personell fuckery.  OTOH, he asked for extra funds to expedite assault rifle and machine gun permitting.

Like I said during the aftermath of the Sutherland Church shooting, it's like the Republicans have a vested interest in this shit happening over and over again. To quote my old post:

Let's face it; the way I see it, the Republicans have something of a vested interest in keeping mass shootings going. If we have people killing each other with assault rifles, it's a sign of moral decay within America. And, naturally, since the Republicans are all about crowing about moral decay, they can claim they have the cure: the agenda they've already been pushing. And, of course, since restricting sales on guns would likely have an effect on the number of civilian gun massacres America sees every year, it's in their best interest to keep the train rolling, and if they can keep things going by shifting the conversation elsewhere and blame anyone but themselves, it makes it all the better for them. Or it could just be that several jackasstic lines of thinking within conservative thought (such as it is) are converging to create a situation where they just keep happening, the people in power do to something refuse to do anything, and they can just pat themselves on the back for it.

The mere fact that this is actually plausible (and that the least plausible part involves the Republicans actually having an agenda that they claim could stop it) speaks volumes to how fucked up we are as a country.