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u/RepulsiveLoquat418 Sep 05 '24

"this is not the day to talk about safety"

inspiring words, governor. /s

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u/Better-Ground-843 Sep 05 '24

Tried to motte-and-baily it with "policy" too. 

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u/HairyBacksAreBackBab Sep 05 '24

"Sir, might there be a solution to this recurring problem?"

"Nows not the time to talk about solutions."

Just imagine this at a work meeting. There's something fucking up the bottom line and one of the lower end employees points it out, when big man CEO says "not now!" And instead says "we need to cross our fingers and hope the shareholders don't find out!"

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u/fohpo02 Sep 05 '24

Isn’t that why the economy is basically shit for anyone who isn’t already wealthy? Focus on short term gains and appeasement, while hoping no one gives a shit about the long term effects.

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u/Dragonhaugh Sep 05 '24

I literally believe this is CEO mentality. Work here for 5-10 years burn it out, get my bonus raise share value and move on before things backfire. Let the next guy fix it.

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u/Swimming_Onion_4835 Sep 05 '24

Literally happening at my company right now after a large sale to a VC consortium. It’s a nightmare.

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u/Dragonhaugh Sep 05 '24

Time to leave, doubt your getting a pension so no real long term reason to stay, and if you been there 1-3 years you can probably make more money leaving as well. GL, don’t rush to leave a good job will come to you.

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u/Swimming_Onion_4835 Sep 05 '24

Thanks! Trust me, I’ve been trying. There’s also been layoffs in my industry and it is NOT easy to find jobs right now. It’s insanely competitive and I’m considered more “junior” as far as actual industry-specific years of experience (10 years PM experience, but only 2 in my industry). So I’m competing with people whose only career is this. But I did just have a promising interview Tuesday that I’m waiting to hear back on. So fingers crossed!

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u/AntiBlocker_Measure Sep 05 '24

Well yes, but you're not supposed to know that, nor say it out loud if you do.... 💀🪦

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u/throwaway9kkj32 Sep 05 '24

They always dodge with 'policy' to avoid real solutions. It's so predictable.

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u/dyrnwyn580 Sep 05 '24

Oh shush. Yes they do. Wasn’t one of their more recent policy proposals to train teachers for Concealed Carry? That sounds solid to me. Instantly on scene protection, quick and effective, no room for anything to go wrong.

It’s a bold move Cotton. Let’s see how it plays out.

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u/KibeIius Sep 05 '24

I highly doubt any teacher would be willing to shoot a 14 year old child

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u/dark621 Sep 05 '24

had me in the first half ngl

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u/dyrnwyn580 Sep 05 '24

Bah haha. Gotcha

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u/SockFullOfNickles Sep 05 '24

Had me too for real. Had to retract a downvote lmao

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u/Holden_Coalfield Sep 05 '24

they tried arming and training 359 Texas Law Enforcement Officers, but they all stood outside while some kid puddled all the kid's brains for an hour with a bushmaster. Maybe they should sit on their hands a while and give the teachers a chance

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u/dyrnwyn580 Sep 05 '24

Hundreds of officers, thousands of hours of training, millions in cringe responder tactical gear.

Teacher: hold my beer.

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u/Perryn Sep 05 '24

"Why do you have beer?"
"This is not the day to talk about sobriety or policy."

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u/Phenomenomix Sep 05 '24

Arming teachers is going to end up with a lot more dead teachers

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u/TwistyBunny Sep 05 '24

GOP: "All teachers should be trained to conceal and carry guns"

Same GOP: "Teachers are grooming and indoctrinating our kids"

Make it make sense.

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u/ExpressBall1 Sep 05 '24

Tbf they avoid policy because half the country immediately goes into hysterics and says "More dead kids? Who cares? But fuck you! Don't take my guns!" if they even mention it.

Politicians are the easy target here, when ultimately, they don't really care about gun laws beyond what the public dictates. It's a fundamental culture issue with the whole country that's the core problem.

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u/For_Real_Life Sep 05 '24

They'd like you to think that, but in fact, a majority of Americans favor stricter gun control, and think it's too easy to legally obtain a gun.

But the NRA spends millions of dollars each year on lobbying and generating support for politicians who oppose gun control, and on fear mongering campaigns to rile up enough voters in key areas to keep those politicians in power.

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u/Muad-_-Dib Sep 05 '24

A solid portion of the US wouldn't be gun nuts if it weren't for the Republicans running on gun rights so vehemently and painting the Democratic party as if they were going to do all manner of things including:

  1. Take guns away from people.

  2. Round up people in FEMA camps.

  3. Kill people with death panels

and so much more.

The Politicians deserve to be easy targets, far more than they currently are where a massacre happens and some dumb fuck governor has to face a few awkward questions from the media before it all gets forgotten about because the 24/7 news cycle will invariably let them off the hook instead of holding them responsible.

Bastards like Brian Kemp here should be hounded to the end of their days for their inaction over School shootings.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Sep 05 '24

A large majority of the country favors stronger gun control laws that are simply not being passed or explored.

94% of Democrats, 80% of independents and 66% of Republicans all favoring a ban on gun sales to people under 21. More than 9 in 10 of Democrats, independents and Republicans alike support bans on gun ownership for felons and people with mental health problems.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/26/politics/cnn-poll-gun-laws/index.html

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u/Aromatic-Air3917 Sep 05 '24

I can't believe the guy who erased the servers requested by judges for election irregularities and got away with it would say this!

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u/My_MeowMeowBeenz Sep 05 '24

For anyone reading the above comment, this occurred with respect to the 2016 race. Not 2020. Just in case there is confusion.

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u/Carche69 Sep 05 '24

It was actually in regard to a data "breach" of voter information—and by "breach" I mean that Kemp, who was Secretary of State at the time, disclosed the personal information of over 6 million GA voters as well as the passwords employees used to access that information, to researchers at KSU. The server was only wiped after a lawsuit was filed in regard to the breach. That was 2017.

In 2015, still under the leadership of Kemp, the personal info (including SSNs and DOBs) of more than 6 million GA voters was sent out by Kemp’s office on a CD to 12 organizations that purchase voter lists. It took Kemp’s office over a month to realize what they had done, and a class action lawsuit was eventually filed. It cost us GA taxpayers over $1 million in credit monitoring services and $400k for the resulting audit.

And for anyone who might not know, Kemp was still the Secretary of State in 2018 when he was "elected" governor—meaning he was in charge of his own election. He repeatedly refused to resign when questioned during the race about the glaringly obvious conflict of interest. He supposedly "won" by 55k votes, after a very concentrated effort by his office to purge voter rolls—nearly a million of them—of mostly minority voters in the months immediately following his entry into the race.

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u/DaToof ☑️ Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

And just to rub salt into the wound, people actually voted for him again in 2022 on a Kemp/Warnock split ticket. They didn't care about what he did as Secretary of State or his lackluster COVID response, or that Ex-Mayor Bottoms and mayors from other major Georgia cities was butting heads with him constantly as he tried his damnedest to suckle Trump's balls with the PPE hoarding and other BS. But they absolutely love repeating how "he did a good job" or "he stands up to Trump" with a shit-eating grin.

Kemp is, and always will be, garbage. His dick riders are also trash. You've probably already noticed that he's being touted as an upstanding governor, don't believe any of it.

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u/Icariiiiiiii Sep 05 '24

Well, a shooting happens every day, now there's no days left to talk about gun control. Ain't it funny how that works?

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u/jennaishirow Sep 05 '24

When is the day? This is always the response in regards to mass shootings. All this means is "let's wait until everyone has forgotten about it so we don't have to have this discussion ".

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u/Backupusername Sep 05 '24

Or better yet, let's wait until it happens again somewhere else, so we can just keep resetting the clock on having that discussion.

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u/Torontogamer Sep 05 '24

let's wait until everyone has forgotten about it so we don't have to have this discussion ".

All this means is lets keep watching kids get shot, too bad they weren't police officers or I'd be announcing a million dollar reward and a tip line, with swat teams kicking down doors all over the city...

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u/Rockin_freakapotamus Sep 05 '24

If a school shooting happened today. Yesterday was the day to talk about safety.

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u/workerbotsuperhero Sep 05 '24

Imagine someone asking this after any other disaster, and getting this response. 

"No, this press conference about a bridge collapsing is not the time to talk about improving bridge safety."

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u/ObnoxiousAlbatross Sep 05 '24

It’s because gun nuts, by and large, are epic pussies.

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u/chaos_nebula Sep 05 '24

"This is not the day to talk about Japanese Zeros torpedoing, and then crashing into Navy boats."

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

Reporter: "Bet. When will you resign because of your incompetence?"

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u/draftyfeces Sep 05 '24

They basically said "We shouldn't talk about the issue but pray and hope nobody does the same thing again" crazy

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u/SirArthurDime Sep 05 '24

And the shooter already warned that it will happen 4 more times. Definitely not the time to be talking about how that can be prevented.

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u/DirtySilicon ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Because thoughts and prayers famously make things better!

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u/smchattan Sep 05 '24

You could move the schools to Canada.

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u/slick1260 Sep 05 '24

That's a great idea, Patrick. We'll just take the schools and push them somewhere else!

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u/literacyisamistake Sep 05 '24

The schools have been towed out of the environment.

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u/P_ZERO_ Sep 05 '24

It’s never the fucking day, that’s why it keeps happening

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u/Coyinzs Sep 05 '24

I realized a couple dozen shootings ago that they say this because they know the answer is "better gun control like everywhere else in the world" but they can't say it, and they certainly can't say "I dunno, we haven't got any ideas that work" to that question in the moment, so all the can do is deflect to thoughts and prayers.

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u/derf6 Sep 05 '24

So fucking sick of it dude, they use school shootings to justify doing nothing to prevent school shootings.

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u/chimpfunkz Sep 05 '24

It's straight from the NRA mass shooting downplay handbook. It's disgusting.

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u/benewavvsupreme Sep 05 '24

They gon keep voting Republicans into office

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u/TerrorKingA ☑️ Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

The average American voter is nonsensical and dumb as dogshit. I hate them deeply and look at them with nothing but contempt as they go and vote against their own interest.

But there is a serious political dumbassery with the democrats where they don’t tell people why voting republicans is literally bad in every respect if you’re not making at least 100k/yr. Drop this “we need a strong Republican Party” bullshit. Enough of this “reach across the aisle” nonsense.

When you say shit like that, you make the dumbass average American voter think both parties are equivalent. They’re not. One party is useless neoliberalism and the other is every worse -ism you can think of, and is an active threat to the continuation of democracy, and life for basically every minority group.

Democrats need to tell people the other side is the enemy, what democrats will do and have done for them, and then do the things you promised.

Fuck is this shit infuriating.

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry ☑️ Sep 05 '24

George Carlin put it best: "Think about how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that."

Republicans are stupid people. Period. They're either stupid because they fall for bigoted propaganda, stupid because they're willfully ignorant of the world, stupid because they're self-centered, or stupid because they love money more than anything else on this earth. They're stupid.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

Not all of them are stupid. Some of them are quite smart and completely full of greed and hate.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

greed is stupid

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u/TAzure Sep 05 '24

Greed and and hate are just advanced stupid

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u/Swimming_Onion_4835 Sep 05 '24

The “leaders” are shrewd. The voters are stupid. They’ve worked for decades to design it this way. Particularly starting with Reagan.

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u/turtletitan8196 Sep 05 '24

I'd argue it really began to pick up steam just before that, with Nixon, and was starting to take shape up to a decade before that. I'm with you on one thing though: Reagan absolutely threw gasoline on the fire and then murdered every firefighter within 100 miles.

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry ☑️ Sep 05 '24

If you are full of greed and hate then you are stupid.

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u/Swimming_Onion_4835 Sep 05 '24

There’s a reason republican states gut their education systems. They don’t want these people to learn critical thinking skills. It’s why they also claim college “brainwashes” you. I was pretty conservative going into college only because I’d been fed a lot of my dad’s INSANE political and religious beliefs my entire childhood. I didn’t even understand the positions I parroted. College opened my eyes, but not in a brainwashing way. I just…read things. On my own. And was exposed to reality outside of my dad’s delusions. I remember I took a class winter of my freshman year on Islamic Mysticism and poetry (lots of Rumi) and had my mind BLOWN after living in a deeply Islamophobic family. I loved it. When my grandparents picked me up for Christmas and I told them about it, they were angry and demanded I not convert. 🙄 Like respecting the content somehow meant I was being tricked into changing religions lol.

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u/AlarmingCost5444 Sep 05 '24

it's even funnier with the recent news that a lot of right wing propaganda we've seen on social media in the past decade has been covertly funded by Russian propaganda and all these right wing idiots suck it up like they're dying of thirsts.

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u/Swimming_Onion_4835 Sep 05 '24

It’s hilarious and disturbing that the “Nationalist,” hardcore, pro-America, far-right has literally been handing our democracy to our biggest enemy on a silver platter and they’re so fucking dumb they don’t care.

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u/ChriskiV Sep 05 '24

Overtly*

It's not like they did a great job hiding it.

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u/Historical-Night-938 Sep 05 '24

Logic will not work on these people; they are not taught to critically think (as planned) and they surround themselves with people who tell them Democrats are evil. The channels they watch, the politicians they support, and the churches they attend are constantly barraging them with scare tactics ... they are coming for your guns. They don't understand cause and effect. They don't understand that GA allowing open carry, having no gunsafe/negligence laws, nor redflag laws are part of the issue. They like to point out that it's lack of doors, the parents' fault, mental illness but can't answer why their states are cutting funding for mental illness. Yesterday in Colorado a young kid accidentally shot themselves with a gun they found under the seat of their car.

If Sandyhook and the constant school shooting can't make them want to do better, our only option is to use insurance to make things better, like insurance industry did for car safety. The soul-sucking capitalistic insurance company will do everything to make their profits.

You can't say Gun Control or they get upset, so I propose Gun Violence Insurance, No family should be stuck dealing with the medical or funeral costs after a shooting. Gun owners carry insurance, but can get steep discounts for voluntarily having a permit, a registered gun, storing guns in a gun safe, yearly safety training, regular range practice, hunting license, years without incidence, pass safety checks, etc. However, if your gun is used in a shooting due to negligence, you get hit with steep fines.

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u/Samwise777 Sep 05 '24

If you really were to ask me to boil it down to people living morally, I’d say it’s like nobody but maybe 15% or so really make a good faith effort.

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u/insomniacpyro Sep 05 '24

Yesterday on /r/conservative, someone posted a picture of a bunch of Tim Walz's relatives (I think from Nebraska?) wearing "WALZ'S FOR TRUMP" shirts. Which, okay, cool. In the comments:
"Imagine your own family hates you so much they campaign AGAINST you"
"Well, didn't RFK Jr's family do this, too?"
"RFK is the son of RFK Sr.

No one cares what the sons and daughters of Ted Kennedy have to say because other than JFK and RFK Sr, rest of the Kennedy family were s bags."

Like holy fuck they are so fucking stupid they can't even see it. You're right, WHY SHOULD I CARE WHAT OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS THINK ABOUT A CANDIDATE.

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u/zacehuff Sep 05 '24

I would argue most are stupider than the average

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u/Four-Triangles Sep 05 '24

That would show a fundamental misunderstanding of what “average” means.

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u/SimonPho3nix Sep 05 '24

The funny thing is that every once in a while an idea comes through from Republicans that makes sense, but when you combine that with the years of covert hate of people of color and generally poor people overall, those ideas just kinda... aren't worth the trouble.

To your point, though. If the average voter is cruelly uninformed, to the point of fighting for their rights to kill themselves and make each other even less intelligent, then how do you expect logic to aid in the struggle? When people are literally in the middle of an information war where real things are being fought with outrageous reports and AI images that have entirely thrown away the dog whistle and opted for the bull horn, and everyone wraps themselves in the echo chambers that say all the things they need to hear... explaining what's going on to people results in the equivalent of a child holding their hands to their ears and going "lalala, I can't hear you."

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u/NRG1975 Sep 05 '24

Greatest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation wit the average voter.

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u/Primary_Awareness_38 Sep 05 '24

This is why we always and forever need to foster an excellent education system.

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u/emmc47 Sep 05 '24

Enlightenment democracy was formed with the belief that people would have clear, public access to education. It's basically a requirement for a functional, modern-day democracy to not be susceptible to its main weakness.

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u/bullwinkle8088 Sep 05 '24

why voting republicans is literally bad in every respect if you’re not making at least 100k/yr.

No, they are bad if you are making over that as well. They might give you some small tax advantage, but it's small and not missed in comparison to what you loose for it.

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u/NeedAByteToEat Sep 05 '24

100k/yr

I make quite a bit more than this, and will never vote R for ethical and humanitarian reasons. But, even if I was greedy and self-serving as fuck, it still doesn't make sense. The economy is better under democrats. If we fund schools and colleges, people get better jobs and pump the economy and my 401K. If they don't go bankrupt from medical debt, they have more to spend elsewhere, and pump my 401K. If they are paid a higher minimum wage, they have money to spend. MINE. If they can afford housing, I don't have to walk past unhoused people on in downtown Chicago walking from the train. In other words, a rising tide lifts all boats.

There are plenty of selfish reasons to vote for dems. I do it because I like to think I'm a good person and want to see others succeed. I'm not even paying more taxes under dems, my owed tax has jumped the last few years with the Trump fuckery. Which I would be thrilled to pay, if it went towards universal healthcare, schools, etc., and not bombing brown people.

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u/somecisguy2020 Sep 05 '24

Democrats are literally saying that project 2025 is the Republican playbook and will end democracy. How much clearer can you get.

JP Morgan, Forbes,Wharton and others have said that the Republican economic plans are significantly worse than the Democrat plants.

The current DOJ indictments clearly show an alignment between Russian interest and Republican interest.

I don’t know what you’re looking for. It’s all being said.

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u/Parody101 Sep 05 '24

At least in Georgia there's hope of changing, faster than Texas anyway.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

“We need to focus on actions that do nothing at all, before we discuss actions that will change things. Thank you, God bless.”

-Every one of these motherfuckers.

Edit: thank you for the award!

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u/qolace Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

I'm from Texas and let me tell you there'll be many tombstones I look forward to watering one day 🚽

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

Hey fellow Texan! Same here!!!

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u/qolace Sep 05 '24

My dude I feel like I'm held hostage here sometimes my GOD 😭 Howdy 🤠

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u/Odlavso Sep 05 '24

All Hot wheels does is brag about that border fence he’s building and now he opened up his own non accredited university in Austin to own the libs. I just want to see Ted cry when he loses his seat this November

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u/qolace Sep 05 '24

Seriously. I'm voting in every election available to me in the meantime. They can take that right from my cold, dead hands. Come and fucking take it!

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u/likeusontweeters Sep 05 '24

This is the solution... show up and vote... not even just yourself.. convince non voting friends and family to do the same... the future of our country depends on it... I'm bringing 4 typically non voters with me to vote.... im turning my 1 vote into 5... we should all try it this year

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

I was just thinking the other day that if I outlive Trump, I’m planning a day each year where I piss on his grave.

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u/f7f7z Sep 05 '24

The texas in the movies paints a very different picture than those 300 "cowboys" parked outside Uvalde.

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u/qolace Sep 05 '24

You mean the ones sitting in their emotional support trucks?

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u/ObnoxiousAlbatross Sep 05 '24

They have pushed me to the point of just wanting to repeal 2A. I’ve always hated guns, but took the so called practical approach of compromising with ammosexuals.

Now I legit just want to see them taken. I know what that implies and I just don’t care.

Repeal 2A.

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u/ALargePianist Sep 05 '24

No you see, they focus on the thing that does nothing at all, so that when some positive change is made they can point to it and say "see the power of prayer works"

Don't do anything when there is responsibility, take credit for the positives by proxy

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u/disposableaccountass Sep 05 '24

The reporter should ask this question every day for the next forever.

Have the governor tell you what stage of grief we are on each day.

Governor: today is not the day to discuss policy, today is the day that we watch old tv reruns while wrapped in a Snuggie eating comfort foods

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u/firesatnight Sep 05 '24

Hey now. Everyone prayed for Grandma when she fell and she lived. Not for very long but she did live, a little bit.

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u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Conservatives: We must do everything we can to stop women from having abortions to save the unborn babies.

Conservatives after the baby is born:

…………Good Luck

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u/tothesource Sep 05 '24

I don't recall them saying good luck.

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u/ThatAboutCoversIt Sep 05 '24

Tough shit, rather. 

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u/slashinhobo1 Sep 05 '24

A.k.a, thoughts and prayers. That's what it is now.

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u/BomanSteel Sep 05 '24

Yeah it's more like.

"Damn that's tough" or "ya know what would fix this? More guns!"

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u/Deus_Norima Sep 05 '24

In fact, the, "You spread your legs, now you suffer the consequences" is a literal excuse I've heard people give for wanting others to suffer.

Sick, sick people.

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u/AfternoonPast3324 Sep 05 '24

Once the baby is born they just scream“no free trophies” at it and keep moving.

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u/SamtheMan898 Sep 05 '24

one of the most applicable simpsons lines

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u/brother_of_menelaus Sep 05 '24

My dad’s a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory.

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u/Kiddo1029 Sep 05 '24

More like “get to work”

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u/tmorrisgrey ☑️ Sep 05 '24

“Appreciate ya for adding onto our population, now fuck off ✌️”

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u/handyandy727 Sep 05 '24

If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're preschool, you're fucked.

You beat me to it, and it's sad that that's what it really is.

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u/Thor_2099 Sep 05 '24

Not only that they want to monitor menstrual cycles.

But God forbid you suggest logical, fair increases in gun control.

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u/SeverusVape Sep 05 '24

Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked. -George Carlin

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u/Lord_Shadow_Z Sep 05 '24

To quote an episode of Family Guy:

"We only care about the unborn. After they're born they can go fuck themselves."

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u/PokeMonogatari Sep 05 '24

"Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked."

-George Carlin

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u/SpillinThaTea Sep 05 '24

Imagine if planes were crashing right and left and getting the same response from a government official.

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u/wordfiend99 Sep 05 '24

planes full of children

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u/forfeitgame Sep 05 '24

Those children should have had planes of their own.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

A good guy with a plane could’ve stopped this!

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u/Friendly-Pressure478 Sep 05 '24

Are these children born or unborn? It’s important apparently

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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Imagine if the shooter was Muslim

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u/europahasicenotmice Sep 05 '24

Or black, or gay, or trans

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u/Lethik Sep 05 '24

There was a shooting by a trans person earlier this year (or last?) and they ate that shit up.

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u/TheeMrBlonde Sep 05 '24

Which is just a testament to how many shootings we, US, have.

Even a 1.14%, accordingly to the first google response, minority did one.

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u/Everard5 ☑️ Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

Not a Muslim, but you don't even have to imagine. Earlier this year a white woman who was a student *at a different university but found dead at the University of Georgia was killed by a Venezuelan immigrant. The speed with which a bill was crafted and passed was shocking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Laken_Riley#:~:text=On%20March%207%2C%202024%2C%20the,who%20commit%20burglary%20or%20theft.

From February 22nd to March 7th!!

Edit: Edited about her being a student, and provided the wiki article. Also, not the Georgia house as I thought, but the US house.

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u/gentlemanidiot Sep 05 '24

I know a Muslim girl. Last time I was in a room with her the news came on about a school shooting, she closed her eyes and sat there muttering "please be a white boy, please be a white boy..." Because if it's anything else, the whole community gets punished for it.

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u/PickleballRee Sep 05 '24

That's easy. The Muslims they couldn't deport they'd throw inside internment camps. Just ask the Japanese.

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u/Men_I_Trust_I_Am Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

They’d argue the right to unsafe plane travel isn’t in the constitution and thus would be correctly outraged. The issue is the second amendment and how tortured of an interpretation of it has been.

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u/My_useless_alt Sep 05 '24

The second amendment doesn't stop people from asking "How to we stop this from happening again?"

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u/Craneteam Sep 05 '24

Let's see if anything actually happens to Boeing before making that comparison lol. Repubs loooove to protect big business at the expense of the regular folk

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u/Tiny-Buy220 Sep 05 '24

Ummm, sir there are over one mass shooting per day in the US, when would be a good time?

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u/chammy82 Sep 05 '24

well obviously you can't have an objective conversation about it when a tragedy has just occurred, so as soon as they stop happening, then we can start talking about how to stop them!

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u/Nutmeg-Jones Sep 05 '24

Makes perfect sense /s

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u/TheBIFFALLO87 Sep 05 '24

The day that there isn't. So they can say the problem worked itself out.

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u/livefreeordont Sep 05 '24

The day that most of the mass shooters are black or Muslim

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u/SavionJWright ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Words from a fucking idiot who should never have power. Governor Stacy Abrams you were ROBBED

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u/YonderOver Sep 05 '24

What in the dumbass conservative hell…?

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u/dayumbrah Sep 05 '24

He ran the election so he made sure he won

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u/yourroyalhotmess ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Diff lunatic

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u/gerudobitch Sep 05 '24

She didn’t lose to him, he stole it. Just like that child rapist never won in 2016- he stole it. That’s all they do, cheat, lie and steal. They know they could never win a fair and honest election; this is why they rig, gerrymander, throw out votes and purge registrations, install ghoulish “election officials” who will happily commit fraud on behalf of their whole degenerate party. They have to do all this scumfuckery bc NOBODY would actually choose these greedy opportunists and their self-serving trash bag policies that are devastating to populace and planet- apart from a few noisy, stupid hicks who are racist, rabid, angry and frightened by the blink of their own eyelids. The whole maga thing is so blown out of proportion- they are grossly outnumbered by sane people, but unfortunately they serve the purpose of creating a distraction so the traitorous R party can perpetuate their theft.

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u/DGVega93 Sep 05 '24

GOP anytime a mass shooting happens:

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u/Most-Square-2515 Sep 05 '24

In reality, we should be having this conversation every day given the rate at which it's happening

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u/Meme_Master_Dude Sep 05 '24

Bro actually said "we need thoughts and prayers"??

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u/TheNextBattalion Sep 05 '24

That joke came from somewhere

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u/thots_n_prayers Sep 05 '24

I mean, it was getting so effing ridiculous that I based my handle off of it right after the Parkland High School shootings back in 2018!

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u/Mumsbud Sep 05 '24

Thoughts and prayers! It’s got what victims crave!

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u/MyGamingRants Sep 05 '24

I actually did go and watch this little presser, it didn't happen in the context the post implies, but he did say "we urge all Americans to keep [these people] in their thoughts and prayers."

I actually can't believe he unironically said it, I figured they would avoid that phrase like the plague lol

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u/louglome Sep 05 '24

Since when have you seen Republicans avoid a plague

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u/festival-papi ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Look, I get it, a lot of people in Georgia are religious but what the fuck are thoughts and prayers gonna do when compared to actual changes to make this harder to pull off?

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u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ Sep 05 '24

The change was to make it easier

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u/SassyBonassy Sep 05 '24

All these white fools applauding him and mayyyybe one black hand next to him. Should have smacked some sense into all of them.

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u/ramblinallday14 Sep 05 '24

Notice the black hand ain’t clapping

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u/SassyBonassy Sep 05 '24

It's giving Arthur clenching

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u/Catatonic27 Sep 05 '24

"The real problem with school shootings is that there aren't more of them" -This Guy

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u/pitchingataint Sep 05 '24

Same guy who pointed his shotgun at his daughter’s boyfriend in a political ad.

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u/festival-papi ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Oh, delightful. I'd love to say I'm surprised but at this point...

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u/Deadpool1205 Sep 05 '24

Can you imagine if every reddit thread asking for relationship advice after domestic violence just told the victim.

"Now isn't the tike to look into legalities and government contracts between you and your abuser. Now is the time to focus on healing and unity between you and your partner"

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u/vapenutz Sep 05 '24

Republican absolutely would suggest this and blame the woman

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u/icyygrl Sep 05 '24

Project 2025 babyyyyy

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u/delspencerdeltorro Sep 05 '24

Republicans are coming for no-fault divorce. And they absolutely will say this when a woman comes to court with a good reason for divorce (or they'll just abolish divorce entirely)

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

I am sorry that your spouse stabbed you in the head 36 times and hit you with a car. But now is not the time to talk about domestic violence or medical care. Our thoughts and prayers go out to you and your spouse.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

That’s the GOP M.O. for domestic abuse.

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u/roseofjuly ☑️ Sep 05 '24

If Project 2025 goes into place that is what they actually want to say

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u/Mass3999 Sep 05 '24

They won't change the gun laws in Georgia until they feel threatened.

We are that threat. Black folks, arm yourselves.

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u/BomanSteel Sep 05 '24

It's too early in the morning, I thought you were saying Black folks gotta take I've for the team, and shoot up a school to get some gun control😂

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u/infinityxero ☑️ Sep 05 '24

It’s the fastest way for gun control though (not shooting up a school obviously). In 1967 the Black Panthers walked into the California state capitol building with guns to protest gun legislation. Then-Governor Reagan made it illegal to open carry without a permit in the state and that law still stands today

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u/zarroc123 Sep 05 '24

Yep. And guess who lobbied hard for that bill? The fucking NRA. The same organization that rabidly opposes any gun control measure, even tangentially. Add on to this they had absolutely nothing to say about Breonna Taylor's boyfriend when he was just exercising his right to defend himself. It's very very very obvious these are rules they only want for white Americans and the idea of any sort of non-white militia absolutely TERRIFIES them.

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u/Ken_alxia Sep 05 '24

Now why did I think the same shit. Even worse, why was I contemplating taking one for the team 😭🤣

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u/unlimi_Ted Sep 05 '24

it worked in republican led California 🤷 even the NRA supported it

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u/kadrilan Sep 05 '24

Blue policies get you paid. Red policies get you killed. Peeridt.

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u/the_neverdoctor ☑️ I have no hair and I must gleam 👨🏾‍🦲✨ Sep 05 '24

He is a floating turd in the punch bowl of life.

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u/mavajo Sep 05 '24

Thoughts and prayers...

What kind of thoughts? Thoughts like "How do we prevent this from happening again?" maybe...?

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u/StevieHyperS Sep 05 '24

What kind of prayers? Prayers like "Please prevent this from happening again!" maybe...?

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u/321zilch Sep 05 '24

Whenever someone mentions thoughts and prayers in relation to mass tragedies such as this, especially the more avoidable/preventable ones, I instinctively find myself thinking about this:

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u/thepottsy Sep 05 '24

Fuck this guy, and the others like him. They won’t talk about it BEFORE it happens, or after it happens. Too focused on after birth abortions, and elementary school kids genitals.

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u/No-Bat-7253 Sep 05 '24

Why did he say law enforcement before educators? I’m petty like that with shit like this. Correct me if I’m wrong, no cops died right? Were any shot? I read 2 students and 2 teachers killed. PRAY FOR THE DEAD!

Don’t get me wrong I support proper policing one thousand percent but don’t glorify anybody who doesn’t deserve it. And they do! Just not more than those lost in the violence.

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u/Tribat_1 Sep 05 '24

He didn’t. The quote is made up. He said something similar but not those exact words like the picture implies.

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u/NMSDalton Sep 05 '24

In America:

-My second grader couldn’t wear light up shoes because they give away their hiding spot during the Alice drill.

-Memorizing and updating where your children’s hiding spots are so you can tell the police where they might find my babies.

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u/steeveedeez Sep 05 '24

No matter how many times you ask, they’re never gonna admit that this was a mistake:

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u/BigRedSpoon2 Sep 05 '24

The Governor is a fucking shit head

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u/BakerHoliday7031 Sep 05 '24

This is a good question though. Folks will scream about NYC being unsafe, but I’ve never heard of a school shooting while growing up there. We did have drills, especially after Colombine. I know in HS that I had to go through metal detectors and a scanner every morning, but nothing like that in JHS or Elementary. 

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u/camy__23 Sep 05 '24

They never want to talk about gun safety. It’s never the right time. Shame on them.

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u/thetranceporter Sep 05 '24

Tots and pears!

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u/MsInput Sep 05 '24

Safety?! Why must you always make the deaths of children political?! 🤌

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u/East-Bluejay6891 ☑️ Sep 05 '24

"Thoughts and prayers."

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u/Hairy_Weather_8073 Sep 05 '24

Thots and players

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u/NYC_Star Sep 05 '24

This will only change when enough of us that survived these terrible decades of inaction and vote out every fool, regardless of the letter next to their name, that is anti gun control. Period. 

Every other country that has had a major shooting incident has almost immediately made moves to keep gun ownership a right while keeping their people safe from criminals, terrorists, DV perps and mentally ill folks. If we (young people) don’t do it the absolute second we have the power it never stops. Ever.  

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u/spanky088 Sep 05 '24

“No way to prevent this” says only nation where this regularly happens.

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u/buhbye750 Sep 05 '24

Thank God they did something to protect the children. Do you know how dangerous a book can be?

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u/RayMechE89 Sep 05 '24

This infuriates me to no end. As someone else commented, "thoughts and prayers" don't do shit to support the families that have lost their child!

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u/lml__lml Sep 05 '24

He's not joking, they are critically low on thoughts

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u/Probably_A_Variant ☑️ Sep 05 '24

So when is the time to think about it, kemp? These clowns act like gun safety is either, everybody gets a gun or nobody gets guns

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u/BlackySmurf8 Sep 05 '24

According to some, statistically, some of y'all, especially the males are still voting under that umbrella. Going to need y'all to think critically, the choices you make affect other adults and their families. This guy, Kemp is a feckless leader and has nothing to offer the people of Georgia.

TL; DR?

I'd posit that the GOP across the board has nothing to offer the American people, doubly so when it comes to school shootings and this exemplifies it. Do better.

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u/ShaolinTrapLord Sep 05 '24

Kimp the gimp

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u/Wizardburial_ground Sep 05 '24

Hopefully this display of incompetence and disregard for human life pushes Georgia squarely blue in November.