I’ll admit it I’m callous. If the definition of insanity is repeating the same mistake over and over again expecting a different result then Texas takes the cake for the country. The after tragedy gaslighting of weak minds by Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbot and Texas law enforcement after will serve to insure it happens again and again. After all folks Abbot gets 24/7 protection, likely from seasoned professionals while kids are expected to make due with Barney Fife.
Where Were the Police? ~ Graeme Wood
Luckily the good folks at Vice were able to fill us in a bit later as they were likely in a planning session for their next social media PR video:
Uvalde SWAT Team Bragged About Training at Schools on Facebook ~ Matthew Gault
The sad truth is an army of Barney Fifes, for all their bravado on Facebook and your local media, will never be the solution to the problems involved with weapons of war being made available for mass consumption.
There is a silver lining though, Republicans suddenly want to talk about the societal problems associated with mental illness. Let’s review:
Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses ~ NBC News 2/28/17
President Donald Trump quietly signed a bill into law Tuesday rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun.
The rule, which was finalized in December, added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database.
Had the rule fully taken effect, the Obama administration predicted it would have added about 75,000 names to that database.
President Barack Obama recommended the now-nullified regulation in a 2013 memo following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 20 first graders and six others dead. The measure sought to block some people with severe mental health problems from buying guns.
The results of the jackassery from the radical right are painful to witness:
Uvalde student says she covered herself in classmate’s blood, played dead to survive ~ Chloe Folmar
An 11-year-old student who survived the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday says that she covered herself in a classmate’s blood and played dead to protect herself from being shot.
Miah Cerrillo told CNN on Friday that she dipped her hands in the blood of a dead classmate after the shooter left her classroom and wiped it on herself to play dead in case he came back.
Cerrillo was treated in the hospital for wounds caused by bullet fragments, and her mother Abigale Veloz says the girl is “traumatized.”
Sounds like she needs some mental health assistance but never forget poor Miah lives in Texas so she is likely shit outta luck:
Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a “mental health challenge” and the state needed to “do a better job with mental health” — yet in April he slashed $211 million from the department that oversees mental health programs.
In addition, Texas ranked last out of all 50 states and the District of Columbia for overall access to mental health care, according to the 2021 State of Mental Health in America report.
The grit and grind of making society actually work is more than fighting bullshit culture wars, as fueled by New York media companies, which are in turn used by politicians as an excuse to do nothing other than line their own pockets. Owning the libs carries a heavy hidden costs, just ask Miah and her parents.
Finally the two best ideas I’ve seen in the aftermath of yet another school shooting, one deadly serious and one appropriately absurd. First is the public accounting that needs to happen as all the school shooting crime scene photos should be released to the public so everyone can see what the sack of shit politicians have wrought:
Or maybe we should just give everyone what they want:
Don’t hold your breath anything gets done, the “Dear Republican Leader” Pays His Fealty today to the NRA at an event today where guns of any kind are not allowed.
How do we process all of this? That is what I keep asking myself as a senior citizen, mother, grandmother. WHY, WHY, WHY?? I am open for suggestions. I finished cooking my dinner with tears literally rolling down my cheeks listening to this horror. I don’t possess, after all of these years of life, 78, the ability to process it. Uvalde is now a sad page in our nation’s history, as is Sandy Hook, Columbine, and all of the others. We can scream at the politicians, neglectful parents, bullying classmates, gun and drug dealers, etc. but it seems they are winning on days like this. 19 and 20 innocent children are more than we can bear. But we need to be upset ALL of the time is what I have concluded, not just when something of this magnitude occurs, not that it is not worthy. We should be upset on a moment to moment basis about Chicago, for instance–of all records to hold in one of our best known cities in our country–No. 1 for mass shootings and deaths of children. From Sept. 2018 to May 24, 2022– 719 deaths from mass shootings. The Washington Post reports one child is shot every hour in our country by their parents, friends, other children, themselves. The vast majority are teens, and black teens are 4 times more likely to die from being shot than any others. Is Uvalde horrible? Indeed it is, but it is only another page in the history book of a great nation that has been caught up in the CULTURE OF DEATH, which can only continue to flourish as long as the respect for life is abandoned from the halls of Congress to every human heart. To say “the Devil is in the details” is an understatement. We have no chance of conquering this Culture of Death until we teach our young to respect life EVERYDAY,
one day at a time.
Nothing will ever change as long as objects are considered evil. Whether it’s a gun,car,knife,shovel,axe etc. They all can be used for good or evil. The state of the human condition has to be addressed. We’ve allowed riots, no bail and defund those sworn to protect us. Guns have been around for hundreds of years. What has changed? The respect for life,the respect for the law,the lack of meaningful parenting. Yes some changes to Gun laws might help. Until we begin to change the hearts and minds of those intent on doing evil very little true change will happen.
Hammer, you nailed it, pardon the pun!!!
Truth is stranger than fiction:
New York introduces legislation prohibiting citizens from buying body armor.
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction sometimes. And this takes the cake!!
The 2nd amendment was just a necessity in the 1791 era for musket weapons. Modern combat weapons should not be sold to anyone! Society changes must occur to address issues like this. I hope and pray that we can grow past this issue but we must keep up against evil that is growing around the world. Greed is going to take our Democracy down if we do not get to the solutions we need.