Since the massacre at Club Q Sunday morning, there have been SEVEN mass

[niyad]

shootings up to this moment ( the day is not over yet). SEVEN.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. MAGA making shooters into heroes is a dog whistle to the cult

Weak minds think they'll be revered by their heroism for shooting people.

[niyad]

2. Sadly true.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. It's a way to become a celebrity, meet conservative Congress critters

and the right will tell you it's in the Bible, so totally justified.

amiright?

[niyad]

7. And star in a video game.

[Initech]

19. I seriously feel like the right wings gun lust is creating a genocide of untold proportions.

We may never know the true damage of what this is doing until decades from now - if this country survives that long. The MAGA shitheads propping up murderers like Kyle Rittenhouse and conspiracy theorists like Marjorie Greene is only adding fuel to the fire. The truly scary thing is that it may take a war or two to undo this damage and stop the madness.

[SoCalDavidS]

3. So, In Other Words, A Pretty Standard Week In America

It's only going to continue getting worse.

[Yonnie3]

5. A archive of gun incidents is available

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

You can filter by a number of items at the archive link.

In the last 72 hours gun incidents where at least one person is wounded or killed fill over nine pages with 25 per page. That is over 225 individuals.

We tend to focus on mass incidents, but the gun violence is widespread in small incidents which far outweigh the mass shooting incidents. It is endemic in the US.

Until meaningful gun reform is enacted it will continue.

[niyad]

8. This country is drenched in blood.

[magicarpet]

6. The more tRump becomes marginalized in the political spheres,..

... the more he will mouth off and scream the need for hatred and violence in an attempt to keep himself relevant as we approach 2024.

Expect the violence to explode especially when tRump's polling numbers need a boost - as he claws his way back to the US Presidency.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. He's meeting with white supremacists at Maggot Lago one on one. There is no attempt to conceal

His supporters have blood lust against libruls, Dems, LGBTQ, jews, and women. Although interestingly, many women support him.

[barbtries]

10. let me guess.

All in the USA?

[niyad]

20. Yes

[Martin Eden]

11. Republicans are very concerned ..

... that they'll run out of thoughts and prayers.

Well, they may have run out of thoughts a long time ago.

As for prayers, their god (Mammon) really doesn't care as long as the $$ keeps rolling in.

[LudwigPastorius]

12. Mass shootings: the Farm System for future Republican Congressmen.

[bif]

13. I read recently that we've had over 600 of them so far

So I'm not surprised at all. This country just keep getting scarier by the minute.

[niyad]

21. 658 as of this morning.

[Initech]

14. When do we start using the "g" word to describe gun violence?

[slightlv]

15. Many of us have been saying this "ramp up"

would be coming in massacres. Whether small or large (and mostly large) it's going to continue until tfg is dealt with by either law of man or law of nature. (jail or death) If by jail, the magats will got crazier for a time, but eventually, without the orange one's mouth egging them on, they'll either go back under the rocks where they were previously hiding, they, themselves, will be killed one way or another, or they'll just adjust to a new normal where they are no longer the center of the world (much as they've been for 2000 years prior).

The trick is going to be getting tfg someplace where his mouth is shut or, at the very away from being blasted to the whole world. Even in prison, there are so many different strains of white supremacy that he could get his word out easy enough.

This is going to be a hard transition to live through. Maybe by this time next year things will be quieting down. Mega billionaire corporate owners are not going to go quiet into the night, not when there's money still left to be had and especially not when the next generation coming in is (gasp) WOKE!

Holiday greetings, Niyad!

[niyad]

22. And to you! Sadly, I think you are correct about all of it.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. "Go west, young man!" - "Go into plastics, young man!" - "Shoot people, young man!" /nt

[niyad]

23. . . .

[multigraincracker]

17. Sh!t hole country thanks

to the current reading of the Second Amendment.

[niyad]

25. Sadly true.

[Chainfire]

18. Freedom is the ability to massacre your friends and neighbors at will as God intended.

Guns is why we are the freest country on earth.

[niyad]

24. A truly sick and twistrd notion of freedom.

[Cha]

26. I know.. :( Hawaii just passed a new Non Lethal Gun law...

New law allows Hawaii residents to legally purchase, carry stun gun for self-defense

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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Jan. 1 is the first day Hawaii residents 21 years old and older can legally purchase and carry a stun gun or Taser for self-defense.

The new law is strict compared to most states.

Vendors would have to complete a background check on potential buyers and provide proper training.

It’s a big day for former Honolulu police officer Raymond Craig, who just started up Smart Training Hawaii, a business that focuses on training and stun gun education.

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https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/01/02/new-law-allows-hawaii-residents-legally-purchase-carry-stun-gun-self-defense/