US Politics/Biden Presidency (Trump-free zone)

[MikeO]

2 minutes ago, Palfy said:

We might get a Gorbachev or a Yeltsin when Putin is done. 

Unlikely, I think he's been there so long his ideology will be ingrained in the party heirachy; if there was a Yeltsin or a Gorbachov around he'd have been "terminated" by now.

[Matt]

13 hours ago, MikeO said:

Unlikely, I think he's been there so long his ideology will be ingrained in the party heirachy; if there was a Yeltsin or a Gorbachov around he'd have been "terminated" by now.

That mightve been thought after Stalin too. The flip side of having a dictator in charge for so long is that the majority of the population suffer and look to the other extreme in the hopes they'll be saved. The pendulum will swing to the other extreme.

[Formby]

1 hour ago, Matt said:

That mightve been thought after Stalin too. The flip side of having a dictator in charge for so long is that the majority of the population suffer and look to the other extreme in the hopes they'll be saved. The pendulum will swing to the other extreme.

There is a quote from Orwell in your profile, @Matt. The object lesson of 1984 is that there is no pendulum. The Party controls everything and will always control everything. See North Korea. Russia / China may well be on the same road.  

[Matt]

1 hour ago, Formby said:

There is a quote from Orwell in your profile, @Matt. The object lesson of 1984 is that there is no pendulum. The Party controls everything and will always control everything. See North Korea. Russia / China may well be on the same road.  

Didn't say how it would be controlled

There is a pendulum, the party is just holding the string. 

[dunlopp9987]

Not really politics (although the Supreme Court has become incredibly politicized), but we are entering the end times. Fully going backwards as a society.

 

[dunlopp9987]

Again, another thing that shouldn't belong in a politics thread but has become ludicrously politicized. 

I fucking hate it here.

 

[Romey 1878]

6 hours ago, dunlopp9987 said:

Again, another thing that shouldn't belong in a politics thread but has become ludicrously politicized. 

I fucking hate it here.

 

To those in government that are opposed to a gun ban, do you think it would take one of their own children being killed in a similar event for them to change their minds? Or are they that entrenched that it wouldn't make a difference?

It blows my mind just how passionately some people defend how easily accessible guns are when this sort of thing happens at an alarming rate.

[MikeO]

Top man

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-61576574

[Sibdane]

6 minutes ago, MikeO said:

Top man

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-61576574

What he said is what most Americans feel. What’s sad is that we’re powerless to be able to do anything about it. Gun money lines the pockets of our politicians so deeply that I don’t see us ever getting out of this. 
 

Today is my daughter’s last day of 1st grade. I decided to keep her out today, because this hit too close to home. 

[dunlopp9987]

1 hour ago, Sibdane said:

What he said is what most Americans feel. What’s sad is that we’re powerless to be able to do anything about it. Gun money lines the pockets of our politicians so deeply that I don’t see us ever getting out of this. 
 

Today is my daughter’s last day of 1st grade. I decided to keep her out today, because this hit too close to home. 

Sad to hear that, friend. Unfortunately that is becoming a reality for far too many parents in this country.

Saw a post from an activist I follow, was a photo of someone with a handmade sign that read: 

Let's take a moment to honor the sacrifice of our brave school children who lay down their lives to protect our right to bear arms.

[Matt]

That's the single reason we will never move to live near my in-laws in the US. I know these events can happen anywhere but everywhere else has laws in place to restrict possibilities, and because of that its not a weekly occurrence. 

[Sibdane]

45 minutes ago, Matt said:

That's the single reason we will never move to live near my in-laws in the US. I know these events can happen anywhere but everywhere else has laws in place to restrict possibilities, and because of that its not a weekly occurrence. 

Last night for the first time in my life I thought that maybe we'd be better off living somewhere else like Canada. 

[MikeO]

1 hour ago, Matt said:

That's the single reason we will never move to live near my in-laws in the US. I know these events can happen anywhere but everywhere else has laws in place to restrict possibilities, and because of that its not a weekly occurrence. 

Stat I heard on the radio earlier is that kids at school in America are twenty times as likely to be shot dead compared to kids in other first world countries.

Boggles the mind.

[dunlopp9987]

4 hours ago, Sibdane said:

What he said is what most Americans feel. What’s sad is that we’re powerless to be able to do anything about it. Gun money lines the pockets of our politicians so deeply that I don’t see us ever getting out of this. 
 

Today is my daughter’s last day of 1st grade. I decided to keep her out today, because this hit too close to home. 

It's not only gun money lining politicians pockets, it's right wing Americans who feel that any sort of law restricting access to guns automatically means the government is coming to take all their guns.

It's easy to blame politicians (and they rightfully deserve the large share of the blame), but if a large portion of their base finally woke up and agreed that things need to change, they might be forced to finally act.

Unfortunately we've seen time and again that god-fearing patriots who love their country care more about their guns than human life.

[dunlopp9987]

The last part says all you need to know about the priorities of conservative Americans.

On Tuesday night, at a party in Atlanta to celebrate former football star Herschel Walker’s victory in Georgia’s Senate Republican primary, Mr. Walker put off his speech to broadcast the president’s address from the White House, beamed through Fox News.

“The gun manufacturers have spent two decades aggressively marketing assault weapons, which make them the most and largest profit,” Mr. Biden said. Then, when he said, “For God’s sake, we have to have the courage to stand up to the industry,” the roomful of Republicans let loose groans and boos.

[Cornish Steve]

A book I read recently makes the point that even as recently as the 1970s few interpreted the Second Amendment to mean the right of everyone to bear arms. A judge at the time called the idea a huge fraud propagated by the NRA and funded by gun manufacturers. Since then, it's evolved from being a "right" to a "constitutional right" to a "God-given right". Propaganda works.

[Elston Gunnn]

5 hours ago, dunlopp9987 said:

It's easy to blame politicians (and they rightfully deserve the large share of the blame), but if a large portion of their base finally woke up and agreed that things need to change, they might be forced to finally act.

Unfortunately we've seen time and again that god-fearing patriots who love their country care more about their guns than human life.

The cowardice of Republican officeholders is disgusting.   A meaningful number of them bitterly criticize Trump and Trumpism in private but will not risk being “primaried” by loony right-wingers, and so do not say publicly what they know to be true.

But I want to second dunlopp9987’s important point about “the people,” Trump’s base, those who think they are the “real Americans.”  The fundamental problem is the devastating symbiosis between “the people” — tens and tens of millions of Trump voters — and the no-longer-conservative Republican Senators and Representatives.

When Trump was elected President, legitimately, in 2016, appalled opponents desperately hoped he might “grow into the Presidency.”  When from his first weeks in office this was shown to be illusory, Democrats began to point out his many flaws.  Republicans, in turn, chortled that Democrats had succumbed to “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” that Trump “just drove ‘em crazy.”

In fact, Trump Derangement Syndrome does exist, affecting tens of millions of Americans: not his outraged opponents, but his own outraged supporters, for whom Trumpism is a fulminating scream at changes over a half-century in American life and culture.

Trump’s supporters are deranged.  The most extreme, the QAnon crowd, are the most obviously deranged.  But tens of millions of otherwise sane citizens — “real Americans, the people” — have lost their moral moorings, justifying all manner of ugliness, sometimes enthusiastically, more often simply by looking the other way, by averting their eyes and their consciences from things they would previously have denounced.

They are deranged.  They support a fascist movement.

The Trump plan is to win if possible, but more important steal if necessary, key positions at the local and state level in 6-8 key “swing states” in ‘22.  These positions, election officials responsible for counting and/or certifying the vote, if won by Trumpists, will be used, if necessary, literally to steal future elections.  Trump and his (repeat: tens of millions) supporters fully believe this is justifiable, as they are committed to the Big Lie, that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen from Trump.

So, going forward, we will find out how far the key 5% of so-called “moderate undecideds” will go to avert their eyes, to avoid seeing and recoiling from the elements of fascism that Trumpism is based on: fear of the dark-skinned Other, white supremacy, Christian white nationalism, racial purity, the legitimization of force, including murder.

Because Biden and the Democratic Party are not doing well in the polls, Democrats are desperate.  The looming Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade will perhaps energize a sufficient number of women to vote for Democrats this Fall.  This seems especially likely if some Trump states pass laws outlawing all abortions, period.  Or go further, and restrict access to contraception.  (Sounds crazy, I know.  They are deranged.)

And Democrats may — now — also run on the issues of gun safety, limiting access to weapons of mass murder, background checks, etc.

One essential question seems to be: will “undecided” women worry more about inflation and the (bogus) threat of Critical Race Theory than about democracy, fascism, the right to choose, and the murder of children? 

 

[StevO]

10 hours ago, MikeO said:

Top man

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-61576574

Might be easier for some to view this way. 

[StevO]

I love that country so much, I’ve said it plenty of times on here, but days like today make me hate it just the same. 
My wife and I had discussed moving to Florida so many times in the last few years, I keep a Zillow page open on my phone for properties in a neighbourhood we like and I check it every few days. I can’t imagine the possibility of dropping my daughter off at school in the morning and identifying her body later that day. Im upset just typing that. Fucking ridiculous.

See you all back here soon to discuss the next one. There will be a next one. Everyone with the power to make a difference knows there will be a next one, they will say their prayers and hope that will stop it while the money rolls in from the gun manufacturers. 

[Palfy]

I can’t believe Republicans are so against curbing guns in America don’t they have children that go to school. 

[Elston Gunnn]

3 minutes ago, Palfy said:

I can’t believe Republicans are so against curbing guns in America don’t they have children that go to school. 

Yours is a perfectly reasonable question.  Further, public opinion polls repeatedly show that the vast majority of Americans favor some forms of gun control.  So Democrats, admittedly in need of issues to campaign on the Fall, have an opportunity.  Republicans are, alas, probably only temporarily, on the defensive.

Two factors perhaps answer your question.  First, all that money from the NRA.  Are Republicans on this issue “selling their souls”?  Yes.

Second, Republicans can logically expect that their own children are statistically highly, highly unlikely to be murdered at school.  So mostly they can avert their eyes.

[Elston Gunnn]

Wanted to make an observation about the bball coach Steve Kerr video linked in above posts by MikeO and StevO.

That strong statement is among the few that gun “advocates” might actually view, as they’re more likely to have been watching the NBA playoffs than any news program.  The evening Fox “news” programs don’t count as news.

[StevO]

31 minutes ago, Palfy said:

I can’t believe Republicans are so against curbing guns in America don’t they have children that go to school. 

Maybe not against gun restrictions. But definitely against restricting the money that lands in their pockets. 

[dunlopp9987]

As @StevO mentioned, see you back here for the next one. If congress couldn't pass legislation when 20+ white children were gunned down at Sandy Hook, there's not a chance they'll do anything when it's brown children in Uvalde.

Greg Abbott is a fucking monster and I am praying to whatever higher powers are out there that Beto kicks his ass this November.

[Cornish Steve]

How many school shootings have there been in the US during the past 25 years? Five? Ten maybe? Here's the list.

Thurston High School.

Columbine High School.

Heritage High School.

Deming Middle School.

Fort Gibson Middle School.

Buell Elementary School.

Lake Worth Middle School.

University of Arkansas.

Junipero Serra High School.

Santana High School.

Bishop Neumann High School.

Pacific Lutheran University.

Granite Hills High School.

Lew Wallace High School.

Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.

Appalachian School of Law.

Washington High School.

Conception Abbey.

Benjamin Tasker Middle School.

University of Arizona.

Lincoln High School.

John McDonogh High School.

Red Lion Area Junior High School.

Case Western Reserve University.

Rocori High School.

Ballou High School.

Randallstown High School.

Bowen High School.

Red Lake Senior High School.

Harlan Community Academy High School.

Campbell County High School.

Milwee Middle School.

Roseburg High School.

Pine Middle School.

Essex Elementary School.

Duquesne University.

Platte Canyon High School.

Weston High School.

West Nickel Mines School.

Joplin Memorial Middle School.

Henry Foss High School.

Compton Centennial High School.

Virginia Tech.

Success Tech Academy.

Miami Carol City Senior High School.

Hamilton High School.

Louisiana Technical College.

Mitchell High School.

E.O. Green Junior High School.

Northern Illinois University.

Lakota Middle School.

Knoxville Central High School.

Willoughby South High School.

Henry Ford High School.

University of Central Arkansas.

Dillard High School.

Dunbar High School.

Hampton University.

Harvard College.

Larose-Cut Off Middle School.

International Studies Academy.

Skyline College.

Discovery Middle School.

University of Alabama.

DeKalb School.

Deer Creek Middle School.

Ohio State University.

Mumford High School.

University of Texas.

Kelly Elementary School.

Marinette High School.

Aurora Central High School.

Millard South High School.

Martinsville West Middle School.

Worthing High School.

Millard South High School.

Highlands Intermediate School.

Cape Fear High School.

Chardon High School.

Episcopal School of Jacksonville.

Oikos University.

Hamilton High School.

Perry Hall School.

Normal Community High School.

University of South Alabama.

Banner Academy South.

University of Southern California.

Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Apostolic Revival Center Christian School.

Taft Union High School.

Osborn High School.

Stevens Institute of Business and Arts.

Hazard Community and Technical College.

Chicago State University.

Lone Star College-North.

Cesar Chavez High School.

Price Middle School.

University of Central Florida.

New River Community College.

Grambling State University.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School.

Ronald E. McNair Discovery Academy.

North Panola High School.

Carver High School.

Agape Christian Academy.

Sparks Middle School.

North Carolina A&T State University.

Stephenson High School.

Brashear High School.

West Orange High School.

Arapahoe High School.

Edison High School.

Liberty Technology Magnet High School.

Hillhouse High School.

Berrendo Middle School.

Purdue University.

South Carolina State University.

Los Angeles Valley College.

Charles F. Brush High School.

University of Southern California.

Georgia Regents University.

Academy of Knowledge Preschool.

Benjamin Banneker High School.

D. H. Conley High School.

East English Village Preparatory Academy.

Paine College.

Georgia Gwinnett College.

John F. Kennedy High School.

Seattle Pacific University.

Reynolds High School.

Indiana State University.

Albemarle High School.

Fern Creek Traditional High School.

Langston Hughes High School.

Marysville Pilchuck High School.

Florida State University.

Miami Carol City High School.

Rogers State University.

Rosemary Anderson High School.

Wisconsin Lutheran High School.

Frederick High School.

Tenaya Middle School.

Bethune-Cookman University.

Pershing Elementary School.

Wayne Community College.

J.B. Martin Middle School.

Southwestern Classical Academy.

Savannah State University.

Harrisburg High School.

Umpqua Community College.

Northern Arizona University.

Texas Southern University.

Tennessee State University.

Winston-Salem State University.

Mojave High School.

Lawrence Central High School.

Franklin High School.

Muskegon Heights High School.

Independence High School.

Madison High School.

Antigo High School.

University of California-Los Angeles.

Jeremiah Burke High School.

Alpine High School.

Townville Elementary School.

Vigor High School.

Linden McKinley STEM Academy.

June Jordan High School for Equity.

Union Middle School.

Mueller Park Junior High School.

West Liberty-Salem High School.

University of Washington.

King City High School.

North Park Elementary School.

North Lake College.

Freeman High School.

Mattoon High School.

Rancho Tehama Elementary School.

Aztec High School.

Wake Forest University.

Italy High School.

NET Charter High School.

Marshall County High School.

Sal Castro Middle School.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Great Mills High School

Central Michigan University

Huffman High School

Frederick Douglass High School

Forest High School

Highland High School

Dixon High School

Santa Fe High School

Noblesville West Middle School

University of North Carolina Charlotte

STEM School Highlands Ranch

Edgewood High School

Palm Beach Central High School

Providence Career & Technical Academy

Fairley High School (school bus)

Canyon Springs High School

Dennis Intermediate School

Florida International University

Central Elementary School

Cascade Middle School

Davidson High School

Prairie View A & M University

Altascocita High School

Central Academy of Excellence

Cleveland High School

Robert E. Lee High School

Cheyenne South High School

Grambling State University

Blountsville Elementary School

Holmes County, Mississippi (school bus)

Prescott High School

College of the Mainland

Wynbrooke Elementary School

UNC Charlotte

Riverview Florida (school bus)

Second Chance High School

Carman-Ainsworth High School

Williwaw Elementary School

Monroe Clark Middle School

Central Catholic High School

Jeanette High School

Eastern Hills High School

DeAnza High School

Ridgway High School

Reginald F. Lewis High School

Saugus High School

Pleasantville High School

Waukesha South High School

Oshkosh High School

Catholic Academy of New Haven

Bellaire High School

North Crowley High School

McAuliffe Elementary School

South Oak Cliff High School

Texas A&M University-Commerce

Sonora High School

Western Illinois University

Oxford High School

Robb Elementary School

[dunlopp9987]

Christ alive. Again, that should be shocking but nothing shocks me anymore. 

Thanks for putting that into perspective, Steve. And that's not even factoring in the shootings at religious centers, malls, grocery stores, movie theaters, festivals.

This country has an illness and unfortunately too many are fine living with the consequences.

Oddly enough, that statement is true about both gun violence and covid.

[Palfy]

3 hours ago, Cornish Steve said:

How many school shootings have there been in the US during the past 25 years? Five? Ten maybe? Here's the list.

Thurston High School.

Columbine High School.

Heritage High School.

Deming Middle School.

Fort Gibson Middle School.

Buell Elementary School.

Lake Worth Middle School.

University of Arkansas.

Junipero Serra High School.

Santana High School.

Bishop Neumann High School.

Pacific Lutheran University.

Granite Hills High School.

Lew Wallace High School.

Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.

Appalachian School of Law.

Washington High School.

Conception Abbey.

Benjamin Tasker Middle School.

University of Arizona.

Lincoln High School.

John McDonogh High School.

Red Lion Area Junior High School.

Case Western Reserve University.

Rocori High School.

Ballou High School.

Randallstown High School.

Bowen High School.

Red Lake Senior High School.

Harlan Community Academy High School.

Campbell County High School.

Milwee Middle School.

Roseburg High School.

Pine Middle School.

Essex Elementary School.

Duquesne University.

Platte Canyon High School.

Weston High School.

West Nickel Mines School.

Joplin Memorial Middle School.

Henry Foss High School.

Compton Centennial High School.

Virginia Tech.

Success Tech Academy.

Miami Carol City Senior High School.

Hamilton High School.

Louisiana Technical College.

Mitchell High School.

E.O. Green Junior High School.

Northern Illinois University.

Lakota Middle School.

Knoxville Central High School.

Willoughby South High School.

Henry Ford High School.

University of Central Arkansas.

Dillard High School.

Dunbar High School.

Hampton University.

Harvard College.

Larose-Cut Off Middle School.

International Studies Academy.

Skyline College.

Discovery Middle School.

University of Alabama.

DeKalb School.

Deer Creek Middle School.

Ohio State University.

Mumford High School.

University of Texas.

Kelly Elementary School.

Marinette High School.

Aurora Central High School.

Millard South High School.

Martinsville West Middle School.

Worthing High School.

Millard South High School.

Highlands Intermediate School.

Cape Fear High School.

Chardon High School.

Episcopal School of Jacksonville.

Oikos University.

Hamilton High School.

Perry Hall School.

Normal Community High School.

University of South Alabama.

Banner Academy South.

University of Southern California.

Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Apostolic Revival Center Christian School.

Taft Union High School.

Osborn High School.

Stevens Institute of Business and Arts.

Hazard Community and Technical College.

Chicago State University.

Lone Star College-North.

Cesar Chavez High School.

Price Middle School.

University of Central Florida.

New River Community College.

Grambling State University.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School.

Ronald E. McNair Discovery Academy.

North Panola High School.

Carver High School.

Agape Christian Academy.

Sparks Middle School.

North Carolina A&T State University.

Stephenson High School.

Brashear High School.

West Orange High School.

Arapahoe High School.

Edison High School.

Liberty Technology Magnet High School.

Hillhouse High School.

Berrendo Middle School.

Purdue University.

South Carolina State University.

Los Angeles Valley College.

Charles F. Brush High School.

University of Southern California.

Georgia Regents University.

Academy of Knowledge Preschool.

Benjamin Banneker High School.

D. H. Conley High School.

East English Village Preparatory Academy.

Paine College.

Georgia Gwinnett College.

John F. Kennedy High School.

Seattle Pacific University.

Reynolds High School.

Indiana State University.

Albemarle High School.

Fern Creek Traditional High School.

Langston Hughes High School.

Marysville Pilchuck High School.

Florida State University.

Miami Carol City High School.

Rogers State University.

Rosemary Anderson High School.

Wisconsin Lutheran High School.

Frederick High School.

Tenaya Middle School.

Bethune-Cookman University.

Pershing Elementary School.

Wayne Community College.

J.B. Martin Middle School.

Southwestern Classical Academy.

Savannah State University.

Harrisburg High School.

Umpqua Community College.

Northern Arizona University.

Texas Southern University.

Tennessee State University.

Winston-Salem State University.

Mojave High School.

Lawrence Central High School.

Franklin High School.

Muskegon Heights High School.

Independence High School.

Madison High School.

Antigo High School.

University of California-Los Angeles.

Jeremiah Burke High School.

Alpine High School.

Townville Elementary School.

Vigor High School.

Linden McKinley STEM Academy.

June Jordan High School for Equity.

Union Middle School.

Mueller Park Junior High School.

West Liberty-Salem High School.

University of Washington.

King City High School.

North Park Elementary School.

North Lake College.

Freeman High School.

Mattoon High School.

Rancho Tehama Elementary School.

Aztec High School.

Wake Forest University.

Italy High School.

NET Charter High School.

Marshall County High School.

Sal Castro Middle School.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Great Mills High School

Central Michigan University

Huffman High School

Frederick Douglass High School

Forest High School

Highland High School

Dixon High School

Santa Fe High School

Noblesville West Middle School

University of North Carolina Charlotte

STEM School Highlands Ranch

Edgewood High School

Palm Beach Central High School

Providence Career & Technical Academy

Fairley High School (school bus)

Canyon Springs High School

Dennis Intermediate School

Florida International University

Central Elementary School

Cascade Middle School

Davidson High School

Prairie View A & M University

Altascocita High School

Central Academy of Excellence

Cleveland High School

Robert E. Lee High School

Cheyenne South High School

Grambling State University

Blountsville Elementary School

Holmes County, Mississippi (school bus)

Prescott High School

College of the Mainland

Wynbrooke Elementary School

UNC Charlotte

Riverview Florida (school bus)

Second Chance High School

Carman-Ainsworth High School

Williwaw Elementary School

Monroe Clark Middle School

Central Catholic High School

Jeanette High School

Eastern Hills High School

DeAnza High School

Ridgway High School

Reginald F. Lewis High School

Saugus High School

Pleasantville High School

Waukesha South High School

Oshkosh High School

Catholic Academy of New Haven

Bellaire High School

North Crowley High School

McAuliffe Elementary School

South Oak Cliff High School

Texas A&M University-Commerce

Sonora High School

Western Illinois University

Oxford High School

Robb Elementary School

Wtf that is unbelievable I can’t comprehend the enormity of what you have posted, I’m totally gobsmacked that should be displayed just like that on  media platforms in the hope it wakes up those who favour the right to bear arms into acknowledging there is a need for restraints in the gun laws in America. 

[Matt]

I had to keep scrolling... and scrolling... and scrolling...

Feel a bit sick now. 

[StevO]

7 hours ago, Cornish Steve said:

How many school shootings have there been in the US during the past 25 years? Five? Ten maybe? Here's the list.

Thurston High School.

Columbine High School.

Heritage High School.

Deming Middle School.

Fort Gibson Middle School.

Buell Elementary School.

Lake Worth Middle School.

University of Arkansas.

Junipero Serra High School.

Santana High School.

Bishop Neumann High School.

Pacific Lutheran University.

Granite Hills High School.

Lew Wallace High School.

Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.

Appalachian School of Law.

Washington High School.

Conception Abbey.

Benjamin Tasker Middle School.

University of Arizona.

Lincoln High School.

John McDonogh High School.

Red Lion Area Junior High School.

Case Western Reserve University.

Rocori High School.

Ballou High School.

Randallstown High School.

Bowen High School.

Red Lake Senior High School.

Harlan Community Academy High School.

Campbell County High School.

Milwee Middle School.

Roseburg High School.

Pine Middle School.

Essex Elementary School.

Duquesne University.

Platte Canyon High School.

Weston High School.

West Nickel Mines School.

Joplin Memorial Middle School.

Henry Foss High School.

Compton Centennial High School.

Virginia Tech.

Success Tech Academy.

Miami Carol City Senior High School.

Hamilton High School.

Louisiana Technical College.

Mitchell High School.

E.O. Green Junior High School.

Northern Illinois University.

Lakota Middle School.

Knoxville Central High School.

Willoughby South High School.

Henry Ford High School.

University of Central Arkansas.

Dillard High School.

Dunbar High School.

Hampton University.

Harvard College.

Larose-Cut Off Middle School.

International Studies Academy.

Skyline College.

Discovery Middle School.

University of Alabama.

DeKalb School.

Deer Creek Middle School.

Ohio State University.

Mumford High School.

University of Texas.

Kelly Elementary School.

Marinette High School.

Aurora Central High School.

Millard South High School.

Martinsville West Middle School.

Worthing High School.

Millard South High School.

Highlands Intermediate School.

Cape Fear High School.

Chardon High School.

Episcopal School of Jacksonville.

Oikos University.

Hamilton High School.

Perry Hall School.

Normal Community High School.

University of South Alabama.

Banner Academy South.

University of Southern California.

Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Apostolic Revival Center Christian School.

Taft Union High School.

Osborn High School.

Stevens Institute of Business and Arts.

Hazard Community and Technical College.

Chicago State University.

Lone Star College-North.

Cesar Chavez High School.

Price Middle School.

University of Central Florida.

New River Community College.

Grambling State University.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School.

Ronald E. McNair Discovery Academy.

North Panola High School.

Carver High School.

Agape Christian Academy.

Sparks Middle School.

North Carolina A&T State University.

Stephenson High School.

Brashear High School.

West Orange High School.

Arapahoe High School.

Edison High School.

Liberty Technology Magnet High School.

Hillhouse High School.

Berrendo Middle School.

Purdue University.

South Carolina State University.

Los Angeles Valley College.

Charles F. Brush High School.

University of Southern California.

Georgia Regents University.

Academy of Knowledge Preschool.

Benjamin Banneker High School.

D. H. Conley High School.

East English Village Preparatory Academy.

Paine College.

Georgia Gwinnett College.

John F. Kennedy High School.

Seattle Pacific University.

Reynolds High School.

Indiana State University.

Albemarle High School.

Fern Creek Traditional High School.

Langston Hughes High School.

Marysville Pilchuck High School.

Florida State University.

Miami Carol City High School.

Rogers State University.

Rosemary Anderson High School.

Wisconsin Lutheran High School.

Frederick High School.

Tenaya Middle School.

Bethune-Cookman University.

Pershing Elementary School.

Wayne Community College.

J.B. Martin Middle School.

Southwestern Classical Academy.

Savannah State University.

Harrisburg High School.

Umpqua Community College.

Northern Arizona University.

Texas Southern University.

Tennessee State University.

Winston-Salem State University.

Mojave High School.

Lawrence Central High School.

Franklin High School.

Muskegon Heights High School.

Independence High School.

Madison High School.

Antigo High School.

University of California-Los Angeles.

Jeremiah Burke High School.

Alpine High School.

Townville Elementary School.

Vigor High School.

Linden McKinley STEM Academy.

June Jordan High School for Equity.

Union Middle School.

Mueller Park Junior High School.

West Liberty-Salem High School.

University of Washington.

King City High School.

North Park Elementary School.

North Lake College.

Freeman High School.

Mattoon High School.

Rancho Tehama Elementary School.

Aztec High School.

Wake Forest University.

Italy High School.

NET Charter High School.

Marshall County High School.

Sal Castro Middle School.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Great Mills High School

Central Michigan University

Huffman High School

Frederick Douglass High School

Forest High School

Highland High School

Dixon High School

Santa Fe High School

Noblesville West Middle School

University of North Carolina Charlotte

STEM School Highlands Ranch

Edgewood High School

Palm Beach Central High School

Providence Career & Technical Academy

Fairley High School (school bus)

Canyon Springs High School

Dennis Intermediate School

Florida International University

Central Elementary School

Cascade Middle School

Davidson High School

Prairie View A & M University

Altascocita High School

Central Academy of Excellence

Cleveland High School

Robert E. Lee High School

Cheyenne South High School

Grambling State University

Blountsville Elementary School

Holmes County, Mississippi (school bus)

Prescott High School

College of the Mainland

Wynbrooke Elementary School

UNC Charlotte

Riverview Florida (school bus)

Second Chance High School

Carman-Ainsworth High School

Williwaw Elementary School

Monroe Clark Middle School

Central Catholic High School

Jeanette High School

Eastern Hills High School

DeAnza High School

Ridgway High School

Reginald F. Lewis High School

Saugus High School

Pleasantville High School

Waukesha South High School

Oshkosh High School

Catholic Academy of New Haven

Bellaire High School

North Crowley High School

McAuliffe Elementary School

South Oak Cliff High School

Texas A&M University-Commerce

Sonora High School

Western Illinois University

Oxford High School

Robb Elementary School

Jesus fucking Christ! 
That is a long list, and then to think of 10-20 people murdered at each one. Unfathomable. 
 

I just watched Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue from last night. He did a great job of hitting home the message. Between him and Steve Kerr, that’s what leadership looks like. 

[Matt]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61615236

I know this is a good thing but it's going to cause much more pain long term, many are going to see this as an example of why it's good to carry a gun.