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greg abbott was more angry about beto o’rourke using his free speech to interrupt him than he is about dead children.
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I think a lot of people were content to think that the police response at Uvalde was just one really bad police department.
This is not the case. Every type of Texas law enforcement official were at the school, all from different parts of the state.
Their job is not to protect us, it’s to enforce laws and protect property.
Cops lie all the fucking time, and we as Americans need to start recognizing that fact. Judges take cops at their word, despite the fact that they are liars.
Cops told so many egregious lies about what happened that day to cover their own asses.
If you don’t want to read all of this, here is a well researched and informative video about Uvalde police response and cop’s general affinity for lying to save their own skin.
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#defund the police#all cops are bad#uvalde#school shooting#ACAB#gunsafetynow#gun control#texas#Youtube
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If I see one more mouth-breathing troglodyte claim that the Police were correct in allowing an untrained teenager run rampant around a school with a AR firing indiscriminately at children and teachers Aline slaughtering several innocent people...
What the fuck are police trained to do? Eat fucking donuts and run intersections at high speeds with no lights on? Because that's what they seem to be doing lately.
You're telling me that sending a squadron of heavily armed and armored trained police officers into an enclosed space with a loud-mouthed kid would end up worse for the police? We've seen what happens when cops go into a place with armed lunatics. The lunatics die and innocent people who aren't killing other humans get to live.
I thought Texans were brave.
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Let’s Explore: Two Distinct Reactions to Gun Violence
I’ve noticed over the years that when a white person kills a lot of people with the aid of guns, we are told that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Usually, the conversation then pivots away from guns to the epidemic of mental health issues in America. In these situations, the gun rights advocates’ response to gun violence often is not punitive, but rather positively identifying a public health issue that contributes to the violence. This demonstrates that gun rights advocates are capable of identifying a societal problem that contributes to mass violence and proposing a solution which neither criminalizes nor punishes communities for gun violence.
Relatedly–because these conversations sometimes shift to so-called “black-on-black” crime and gun violence–we see a very different reaction when black people commit gun violence in segregated cities. Instead of identifying the deeper societal wounds (centuries-long intergenerational trauma, systemic racism, poverty, lack of services and opportunity, poor wages, etc.) and offering effective sympathetic solutions (investing in communities, providing more services, regionalizing taxation, dare I say reparations) as we have established they can, many of those same gun rights advocates offer different, punitive solutions: namely more police, more surveillance, and more jails.
In the former scenario, guns aren’t the issue, communities aren’t the issue, gun culture isn’t the issue, but–with sympathy and thoughts and prayers–mental health is the issue we should focus on. As a society, it is our problem to solve, even if it never gets solved. In the latter case, guns are an issue, minority communities and “black culture” are issues, and lacking sympathy, “cracking down” on violence is the issue we should focus on. As a society, it is not our problem; it is “their” problem to solve in the city, and if anyone tries to take funds away from police, we will work hard to get the police their funding back, or get them even more. In other words, action actually gets taken in the second scenario.
Why did I want to share this perspective? Especially for our fellow Americans who struggle to acknowledge the reality of systemic racism, I hope that these two scenarios shed light on its existence and function: how it can permeate conversations and mindsets, political talking points, how we see fellow Americans, what policy solutions are proposed in different situations, who is seen as sympathetic, who is responsible for resolving societal problems, and who is most likely to feel the force of state violence and who gets exceptions made for them. You, kind reader, may not be a racist, and all gun rights activists may not be racists, but it is important to acknowledge that racists and systemic racism play very real and very detrimental roles in our politics, policy, and discourse. And it never hurts to use our privilege to point it out. Short of doing nothing, it’s literally the least we can do.
Thank you for attending my three minute TED Talk!
Peace, love, and solidarity, 🌹
Tom
#texas#uvalde#mass shooting#gunsafetynow#gun violence#big guns#racism#systemic racism#left#progressive#politics#news
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Just when it cant get any worse… it does
Only a few days removed from the child massacre in Uvalde, Texas and more details about what happened that day continue to become public. Some of that information is not only disappointing, it’s infuriating and sadly unsurprising.
The video that you are about to see is going to make you mad as hell. It shows Uvalde police standing outside doing nothing while frantic parents listen to the sound of the 18-year-old gunman murder their children.
Again, the police did nothing while the shooter killed children.
According to the AP, a man named Javier Cazares rushed to Robb Elementary School where his daughter Jacklyn Cazares was ultimately killed. When Cazares arrived, he saw the police inaction and suggested that the parents and bystanders rush the building to help their dying children.
“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” he said. “More could have been done.” “They were unprepared,” he added.
…yet it took those police 40 minutes before deciding to protect the kids of Robb Elementary.
40 minutes.
Somebody has some SERIOUS explaining to do!
40 minutes???
Defund the cops , shame the Gop
FUCK YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
FUCK YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
FUCK YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
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#prolifemyass#enoughisenough#gunsafetynow#guncontrolnow#commonsensegunlawsnow#nraisaterroristorganization#nrabloodmoney#gopdomesticterrorists#republicansaretheproblem
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why have the president and other elected seats been a race of the rich? the whole government was built by rich white cis het men for rich white cis het men and it’s stayed that way aside for Obama. more and more i’m realizing that the u.s. is a theocracy with alt-right “christians” at the heart of it all. i’m tired of the lies and I’m tired of not doing anything about it, but i don’t know how to help. i vote and nothing changes. i try to talk and others start screaming. we say black lives matter, lgbtqia+ rights, feminism, gun control, etc but no one listens to me nor my friends because we’re “too young” and “influenced by media.” is this not my country too? because this doesn’t feel like my home.
#gunsafetynow#outrage#lgbtq#feminism#down with the patriarchy#asking for human decency#wtf america#why are nazis legal#eat the rich
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Ban Guns not Books.
#findyourthing#redbubble#banguns#notbook#read#summerreading#summerbook#vacationreading#vacation#bangunsnow#gunsafetynow#readdontshoot
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Posted @withregram • @youknownothing45 repost @daraforcongress They’ll race to protect themselves but not the children. Pro-White Republican Life only. • • • • • • • • • • #gunsafety #gunsafetynow 🔥🤬 (at Mineola, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CekLDyWLa6J/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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lockdown drills are such a double edged sword because on one hand, yes, children should know where and how to hide if they must. but on the other hand, the people now committing school shootings also practiced those same lockdown drills and know exactly where the children are hiding. you really can’t win in this situation.
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FUCK YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
FUCK YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
FUCK YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
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The gunsafetynow posts rolling around are really giving us a free blocklist huh?
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