I am in such pain about these shootings that I can hardly breathe

[Peacetrain]

More mass shootings this year than days in the year so far.. What is wrong with us?? Why are our people killing other people for a political reason.. Why do we hate people because they have a different skin tone, speak with an accent, worship differently than we do..have different cultural idea.. I just don't know.. There is something drastically wrong out there and we have to find a way to address it.. I don't know.. I just don't know anymore

Our candidates will have to address this again today.. and try and get across to people that we have to go back to some standards and a good guy with a gun does not stop a bad guy with a gun.. push back on this..

[FarPoint]

1. I can't argue with you on that....

I am in Dayton...the location of the last mass murder terrorist attack....We have yet to have the murderer identified....The Oregon District serves all cultures...interested in learning more about this murderer's motivation....I sense he may of gone to the Trump Rally in nearby Cincinnati Thursday...may of been inspired....there were MEGA's fighting with protesting liberals outside the Trump Rally....so, it is something to explore.

[Peacetrain]

2. I am so sorry..

unbelievable..what is happening and you are right.. words do matter.. and words have set these people off.. they think they are starting a revolution.. (I truly hate that term anymore).. to separate the races..

[rurallib]

3. I am right with you on this one

A great young man we used to tutor moved to El Paso with his family many years ago. We heard from them last night that they are all OK. His sister was in the Walmart when the shooting started. The Walmart in near their neighborhood.

We live in a majority minority town in Iowa. Things like ICE raids and racism are always kind of in the background here. It is a terrorism of sorts.

I imagine one thing this will do is push more people to get guns for their own "protection."

I emailed Ernst last night. Can't get over how in the bag for the NRA she is - $3 million worth of ads in her run for the senate in 2014.

[Peacetrain]

5. I hear you .. I used to live in western Iowa..

but retired to Iowa City.. and feel more at home politically, but I think you are right.. this just pushes people into more guns. we did not grow up with people walking into Fareway with a sidearm on their hips.. it has done nothing but get worse with every push back from the NRA.. I was raised with guns, my Dad was a hunter.. but I am totally opposed to open carry..it just gets people more worked up and scared.. Who needs a rapid fire anything.. no one..

[Siwsan]

4. I feel the same

And I know that no amount of CBD oil is going to quell my massive anxiety.

I need to run some errands but I just can't face them, today. I really don't want to leave the safety and shelter of my own home, right now.

[Peacetrain]

6. Siswan, I am having a heck of time getting myself

pulled together to go to church.. I don't know if I can sit through another sermon of loving one another while we watch our people being mowed down.. I don't know if I can face it either.. the one thing that has given me some solace has been the push back by all our candidates.. that we are on the right side of this as Democrats..

[Siwsan]

7. How telling is it that our candidates are so vocal but the entire GOP is pretty much silent

I was surprised that Rod Rosenstein spoke out the way he did but, of course, he's no longer serving the Orange Scourge.

[Gothmog]

8. Same here

I woke to the second mass shooting

[pwb]

9. Pukes think all the killed in all shootings were Democrats.

They must?

[wyldwolf]

10. I have to be very careful not to post things here or on social media that could be flagged.

... but we're quickly moving into a time where the ballot box may not give us the solutions we need. We can make nazi comparisons all day long, but no one seems to be hinting about the resistance within that regime and the measures they took to bring it down...

[Corgigal]

13. Actually,

something was verbally said on the podcast Trumpcast. I think it was last week, the lady announcer was saying how impeachment is our governments way to stop an assassination.

I was like..damn.

[wyldwolf]

14. I started thinking about this after I re-read this story:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12131326&fbclid=IwAR0HdjBrmrO_dxDHzFmt9eOeLQuSGTZvGUBEqIe5pW5nVUVqcIjBgBF2310

Not that I'm advocating violence. I'm not. But ballot box solutions are slow. Does anyone think any social upheaval would have happened as quickly as they did if ballot box solutions had been the only tool?

[BeckyDem]

11. Me too.

[Gothmog]

12. I have a new puppy that is really helping

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The puppy knows that I am upset and has been trying to help

[Maru Kitteh]

15. I couldn't stop shaking yesterday and had to go throw up once at work.

I used to live in El Paso. I still have people there (they're all okay). I can't take this. I had to wait a couple days before I start working on a righteous SCREED. I do NOT care what family and/or friends I lose. I'm done being silent. I can't take it anymore.

[Peacetrain]

16. Oh my God.. I am so sorry.. the fear for the people in your life in that area//

so sorry