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George Takei

A reminder as we wake up to the news of another mass shooting: One party’s members walk around Congress with AR-15 pins on their lapels. They aren’t there to help solve the gun violence crisis. They are there to help enable it.

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Sekhen

@georgetakei
A scared population is easier to control.
Oldest trick in the dictator handbook.

Fatsquatch

@sekhen @georgetakei Also a dumb population is easier to manipulate through fear. Hence the deliberate underfunding of public education, especially in red states.

Starraven

@sekhen @georgetakei
So, you like when people exert this "control" over schoolchildren?

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@starraven @sekhen @georgetakei

I think other people arent the ones children shouls be terrified of

From your profile

Bye

Starraven

@sekhen @georgetakei
I apologize. The response was meant mostly for Rhombus who replied and then muted me so I couldn't respond directly.

Sekhen

@starraven @georgetakei

What are you on about?
I really don't understand your question.

Spatula

@georgetakei
The simplest explanation is that they LIKE gun violence and death. It makes them feel powerful and important. They WANT mass killings.

Skeptic

@georgetakei
The GOP's only policy is chaos in all things.

Helena

@georgetakei There is a more sinister purpose in mind for Republicans. They do not care about endangering the public. The voters supporting them also do not care about endangering the public. The innocent people killed in mass shootings are simply collateral damage.

Assholes vote for assholes.

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@IanDSmith Is the corollary here that if I am in favor abortion (choice), birth control, and sex ed that I must also then be pro-choice on guns?

As much as I love pointing out logic flaws in conservative thinking, I am concerned this one paints those of us who think guns should be far more heavily regulated into a corner.

Jonathan Schofield

@mlibby I don’t think logic really comes into it. It’s about socially constructed conceptions of morality. In the case of right wing conservatism, there’s a very strong correlation with authoritarianism as an end in itself.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
—Frank Wilhoit

@IanDSmith

Kristen

@georgetakei Because they’re fulfilling their promises to #VladimirPutin for receiving all the #NRACampaignMoney.

Tofu Golem

@georgetakei
Reminder: the NRA takes money from hostile foreign governments to implement policies designed to kill as many Americans as possible.

bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-4

Osteopenia Powers

@tofugolem @georgetakei
Great article! "Republicans in the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) blocked further investigation of Mr Torshin and alleged illegal funding to the NRA from Russians."
Guess why the Republicans blocked the investigation!

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@georgetakei
All of Maine mourns today. 💔

And they are good with that.

ClipHead

@Peace_out_art @georgetakei We've been calling them Neonazis for so long. Now they are just Nazis.

Scott Knowles

@georgetakei Enable it? They love it! Not just they're owned and paid byNRA and gun lobby, they love America and Americans' love of guns and the power guns demonstrate. They think deaths from mass shootings and gun violence is price paid for unrestricted freedom of guns. How else can they wear AR-15 pin with news of another mass shooting? How else can only response of thoughts and prayers is the only one they have? They don't just have blood on their hands, they're drenched in it.

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@georgetakei

IT'S PART OF THE NRA CONTRIBUTION DEAL!

Wendy Lady

@georgetakei they don't serve their country. They serve death.

dalton

@georgetakei the GOP is the party of guns, not people. guns are their voters. guns are their constituents. they worship the gun as their god.

Steven Heywood

@georgetakei
It is their only strategy: periodically cull the common people, cow the rest and have a ready-made excuse for arming their shock troops for the next time they don't like the way democracy works. It worked so well during The Reconstruction there's no need to innovate.

John Yates

@georgetakei! Another #GOP sponsored mass shooting event in Lewiston, ME! The #GOP is owned, lock, stock, and barrel by the domestic terrorist group, the #NRA , obvious sponsors of weapons that must be made illegal to own, and once were, by sensible legislators. Ask the Republican #MAGAts when they will vote with Ds to ban assault weapons again, and more. Ask the new#MAGAtSpeaker every day of his tenure, which should be measured in days. #Politics

Dragoniff

@georgetakei
FUN FACT: When republicans hear "gun violence crisis", they genuinely think its like a "water crisis", as in, there isn't enough for everyone.

Pamela Ehn

@georgetakei it’s so they can build a justification for their planned genocide. Never mind that most mass shooters are white males. They get to say, “only I can protect you, but first we have to get rid of…. “ (Jews, Asians, transgender… whatever marginalized group is the favored victim du jour).

Chris Mingus

@georgetakei Because the gun manufacturers bought them out. Why do they care if public schooling is basically gambling with your kid’s life anyway, theirs go to private schools.

SammyGalen

@georgetakei I'm a broken record, I'll say it again: We need to enforce the #SecondAmendment : A well regulated militia! The third part of that amendment : The right of the people to bear arms, that was in relation to the FIRST part, A well regulated militia. Therefore, to enforce the second amendment, we need gun regulations!

GhostOnTheHalfShell

@georgetakei

the cult of stochastic human sacrifice and death is their Eucharist

J. J. Cunis

@georgetakei
Congress has become a self created and self perpetuating den of unethical and immoral thieves and charlatans where an honest person is quickly recognized, debased and stripped of resources. J.J. Cunis
FIX GERRYMANDERING AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

Mel

@georgetakei The "pro-lifers" sure love violent mass murder. 😩

Vieux Mâle Blanc (au phycihaile)
@maj7152
Sure !
You have to make more babies to later have enough people to shoot
@georgetakei
JakeQuokkaMCM

@georgetakei guns and Bibles get the votes in those crappy places. Who knows what they actually believe.

volkris

@georgetakei takes like these are so moronically black and white.

David Barkin

@georgetakei

Everyone KNOWS that gun violence is caused by Social Security and Abortion... ☹️

paul

@georgetakei

we live in a world where the party against banning guns is the party that produces mass shooters.

axios.com/2023/02/23/mass-kill

Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.

i think the time for debate is over.

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