This will less than not change anything--I'm already seeing concern trolls on Twitter wanting to know whether the murderer had entered the US legally and whether we're ready to talk about the REAL issue, which shouldn't be gun control but border control. Fucking nauseating.
Inara: You don't have to die alone. Mal: Everybody dies alone.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JZ - May 24, 2022 8:10:08 pm PDT #15306 of 29995
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
-t - May 24, 2022 9:01:50 pm PDT #15307 of 29995
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I’ve been avoiding the news as much as I can but every time I did hear anything the # dead kept getting higher and I am just sick about it. And then I think that it is damn close to every day recently. Grocery store, church, school - how can anyone be ok with this?
Consuela - May 24, 2022 9:59:23 pm PDT #15308 of 29995
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Fuck them all. Just fuck them.
I wish hemerrhoids on their genitals. I want them to suffer the way the parents are suffering, for the way they prioritize their own power over the lives of children.
Damn their souls, if they even have them.
May their lives be a constant state of papercut between their fingers, a mosquito one never catches in the bedroom, a smoke alarm one can never find. May every shoe they own give them corns, every sock cut off their circulation, every beer skunked, every bath towel smeared with shit.
Laura - May 25, 2022 5:30:28 am PDT #15309 of 29995
Our wings are not tired.
Pretty much feel the same as Consuela. I tried to watch the news this morning but only managed 10 minutes.
dcp - May 25, 2022 6:13:54 am PDT #15310 of 29995
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye
Gudanov - May 25, 2022 6:48:45 am PDT #15311 of 29995
Coding and Sleeping
Yeah, I lost all hope for change after Sandy Hook.
I don't think anything can be done in terms of gun control; there are just too many people who are passionately opposed to any gun restrictions. Nowadays even if the Dems could somehow manage the votes, it would probably be struck down by the courts anyhow. At best, I think there could be a call for red flag laws, but if anything was passed it would so onerous to apply that it would be ineffective.
I keep thinking about the time my daughter tried to commit suicide and finding her was the worst moment in my life even though she recovered. I also think by my BIL who suffered a gunshot wound in his late teens and even though he survived it shattered his life and the lives of his parents. It's really bringing me down.
Gudanov - May 25, 2022 7:54:22 am PDT #15312 of 29995
Coding and Sleeping
JZ - May 25, 2022 8:05:49 am PDT #15313 of 29995
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, Gud. I can't even imagine how terrifying that must have been, or how triggering all of this must be. Please be extremely kind and gentle with yourself right now.
The whole country is just stuck in a terrible hopeless loop of "It's not going to stop til you wise up," and we are never going to wise up.
Dana - May 25, 2022 8:19:28 am PDT #15314 of 29995
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Wow, the Internet is fucking horrific today, huh. Thank God I'm getting on a plane to see friends.
Gudanov - May 25, 2022 8:21:47 am PDT #15315 of 29995
Coding and Sleeping
The whole country is just stuck in a terrible hopeless loop of "It's not going to stop til you wise up," and we are never going to wise up.
I think gun ownership is an identity issue for a lot of people and that makes them very suspicious of any mention of restrictions. It seems like there could be a place for compromise in terms of responsible ownership like requiring secure storage of guns and allowing more time for background checks, but not with that kind of suspicion. On the left I feel like there's a tendency to frame gun regulation as a fight against the gun lobby without appreciating that there really a lot of people out there who are genuinely passionate about access to firearms.