Another mass shooting

Here we are. Trot out the same old bullshit as we do nothing. The cost of doing business. To the thoughts and prayers crowd, please stop acting like you give a shit. You don't Next.....

 

Supposedly it was the night manager that killed fellow employees in a break room then went in the grocery portion before turning the gun on himself.

Sick and tired of this and everyone that shrugs their shoulders and says it’s the price of the “freedom.”

 

Just your daily dose of American gun violence. Thoughts and prayers to the deceased. See you guys in the next mass shooting thread tomorrow.

 

At this point, even if we tried to pass laws, it wouldn't matter. The Republicans on the Supreme "Court" have made it essentially impossible to regulate firearms.
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Quit cluttering up the front page with mass shooting threads. MSDS.

/sarcasm

 

Well that was a long break from mass shooting threads.

 

Well the last one was gay folk. So it probably didn't garner the usual allotment of "Ts & Ps" that would have prevented this one by another day or so.

 

Only amendment to the constitution understood as an absolute. Ignoring the terms, “well regulated.”

 

How do you figure? One can in fact be/do both.

 

Are those even Supreme Court cases?

 

"thoughts and prayers" has become one of the most empty, vapid, and meaningless phrases in modern American lexicon. To the point that it is insulting to the families and friends of those who are slaughtered on a regular basis. It is obvious that as a society we intend to do continue doing absolutely nothing to address the issue, meaning that we have decided as a society that we are ok with this shit.

 

From the title I thought this was a thread about Chicago.

 

The main issue with gun control at this point in our history is if we ban all gun sales, the criminals would already have the leg up. Guns would become even more of a black market item, rising in cost, which would attach even more crime to it as the black market arms trade would become even more lucrative. Criminals would hoard the guns and eventually there would be no safety.

 

Not that that other side cares about irreconcilable inconsistencies in their methodological approach, but the “deeply held tradition” line of constitutional reasoning is really in tension with the desire to regulate history, especially DeSantis’ whole anti-CRT tirade.

For Alito/Thomas, some deeply traditional practice, no matter how barbaric by today’s standards, cannot be regulated, because it’s part of our nation’s deeply ingrained history. On another thread, one of the posters made an implicit argument that the Establishment Clause had to be understood through practices at the founding. So we are supposed to be regulated by conceptions of unusual punishment or gun practices that existed in 1789, even if most of us these days would consider them unwise and barbaric. Too bad, say Alito/Thomas, they are part of history. Don’t use current norms.

But if you teach accurately the practices of that era as creating systemic oppression, suddenly your grasp of history must be recalibrated. Suddenly our history is not actually our history, and it’s impolite to even view those practices dispassionately within the prism of our era as a matter of history, even if we are supposed to be ruled by them legally.

Its only consistency is that any system where the white guys rule exclusively is by definition the correct one and should not be evaluated critically for logic or justice under neutral principles.

 

Can’t say we did “absolutely” nothing when your President just passed a bipartisan guns law.

 

If only they did.

 

Damn, you're really something. Propriety doesn't permit me to be more specific.