In the last 24 hours since the Uvalde massacre, Fox News has proposed at least 50 "solutions" and none of them are gun control. pic.twitter.com/EqYcqk9H3k
— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) May 25, 2022
Ingraham: There’s been a lot of school shootings… Something is going on out there. There’s something happening to our national psyche or to families or to mental illness. I don’t know what it is. pic.twitter.com/8LqCacO75O
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 25, 2022
Tucker Carlson: If you try to enact gun control, you'll start a civil war. pic.twitter.com/jEMLFnPJTc
— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) May 26, 2022
Civil War over gun control but nothing over children being murdered in school
— Cucker Carlson (@LEOagainstTrump) May 26, 2022
Fox News host Katie Pavlich appeared on the network today and deflected blame from gun manufacturers. Left undisclosed by Fox: Pavlich works as an "ambassador" for a gun manufacturer and appears at NRA meetings to promote their firearms. https://t.co/YV3N88ETLY
— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) May 25, 2022
After every mass shooting, Fox News insists the key problem is mental health, not guns. That's wrong -- but they also oppose increasing access to mental health care. It's a dodge, a way to change the subject between massacres. https://t.co/UUMs2JWBHr
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 25, 2022
How Was He Allowed To Go Inside With Multiple Firearms And Kill 22 People?
From the Washington Post: "Two Uvalde police officers and a school resource officer fired at the shooter, but it did not stop him from entering the building."
— John Haltiwanger (@jchaltiwanger) May 25, 2022
There were armed people at the scene. It didn't stop him. https://t.co/vI43Ny19n1
Sgt. Erick Estrada of the Texas Dept of Public Safety tells @andersoncooper the shooter crashed his car near the school, got out with a gun and wearing body armor, was engaged by law enforcement, but made his way into the school anyway and went classroom to classroom shooting.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) May 25, 2022
The school district for Robb Elementary has its own police department with 5 cops and 1 security guard. The city of Uvalde's police department recieved just under 40% of the entire city's budget for the year and got a 500k grant from the state. Neither stopped today's massacre.
— Muffuletta Matzo Man (@NeeNeinNyetNo) May 24, 2022
There was an armed cop at Columbine. And at Stoneman Douglas. Virginia Tech had an entire armed *police force*. "Put cops in schools" and "Arm the teachers" have always been bad-faith dodges to evade the elephant in the room -- the prevalence and ease of access to guns.
— Langdon Grant (@langdongrant2) May 25, 2022
The Police Timeline of the Texas School Shooting Has a Lot of Holes https://t.co/NAsPU543sK via @vicenews
— digby (@digby56) May 26, 2022
Guns are banned at the NRA convention in Texas this weekend when Trump speaks. Let that sink in.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 25, 2022
In February 2017, Trump reversed the Obama executive order restricting access to guns for the mentally ill. Less than a month in office; as if he couldn’t wait. https://t.co/HEBgc5NIZu
— Mimi *Vote out NRA Candidates* (@MaryWeglarz) May 25, 2022
NEW: Gov. Greg Abbott attended a fundraiser for his reelection campaign Tuesday night in East Texas, hours after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary school over 300 miles away in Uvalde. https://t.co/D5k7j8FxKd
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) May 25, 2022
Greg Abbott just said the Uvalde shooting “could have been worse.” Holy shit.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 25, 2022
“As horrible as what happened is, it could have been worse…”
— Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 (@leahmcelrath) May 25, 2022
Governor Abbott is using his remarks to praise law enforcement. The same law enforcement who engaged with the shooter but then let him go into the school and massacre children while they waited for backup.
Bearing out the statistics pic.twitter.com/NFjMoYOJei
— Cat (@CatStoat) May 25, 2022
NEWS
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 25, 2022
A student has been arrested after he was caught with an AK-47 outside his high school near Dallas, just a day after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. https://t.co/KZ2JP2gfsa
— aidsyou (@aidsyou) May 25, 2022
Montpelier police said they have seized firearms but made no arrests during an investigation that started more than a week ago into a “potential threat” made to Montpelier High School. https://t.co/ht0hFmTc9s
— VTDigger (@vtdigger) May 25, 2022
“they’re telling me single digits [age of those murdered]. maybe to nine. whatever.” my god https://t.co/d8mlLF51u1
— Hannancé (@Ask_Hannance) May 24, 2022
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#37 fascinates me--there speak people who do not have to arrive at the airport two hours early; who are VIPed at airport TSA lines and so do not stew in rage at expensive and stupid security theater; who wait for their flight in comfy airline lounges with amenities; who do not have to pay (or do not mind paying) $27 gouged dollars for a beer at the airport restaurants; and who eventually sit in first class, reclining at their ease, not squeezed into minimal-pitch sardine cans.
The rest of us recognize airports as a foretaste of hell if we are religious or of life in a fascist or communist dicatorship if we are not.
Schools are already nasty enough, regimented enough, full enough of the educational equivalent of security theater.
So, sure, make schools more like airports (except you don't get to go anywhere much except home at 3:30.) Or, as Ted Cruz suggests, make schools more like prisons with a single guarded door and, I suppose, a sally port, barbed wire, electronic door locks, a panopticon--but no time off for good behavior. Sorry, kids.
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