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struggle4progress

(118,338 posts)
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 12:31 PM Apr 2018

We should be able to eat waffles in peace

Rex Huppke

... We should be able to eat our waffles in peace. We should be able to send our kids to school without worrying that they’ll be gunned down. We should be able to go to church and not wonder whether an AR-15-toting person who fell through the mental-health-services cracks might stand up and open fire ...

We’re told by the National Rifle Association and the politicians they fund that the only defense in any of these tragedies would be more guns. Armed teachers. Armed churchgoers. Armed music lovers. Armed waffle eaters.

They tell us mental health care is key, but do they increase funding for mental health care? No. Do they tighten gun laws to keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill? No. In fact, President Donald Trump’s only action on guns was signing a law last February that did away with a regulation President Barack Obama put in place that made it harder for people with mental illness to buy a gun ...

... there are two kind of terrorism, one the Trump administration and the gun lobby will pounce on to stoke fear and another they will ignore so as not to lose donors or damage business ...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-met-waffle-house-shooting-huppke-20180423-story.html

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We should be able to eat waffles in peace (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2018 OP
K&R... spanone Apr 2018 #1
Were all the victims black? Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #2
No. One of the victims, Joe Perez , from Austin TX was Hispanic. But he was not white so I am lunasun Apr 2018 #5
Oh sure, just let the commies win gratuitous Apr 2018 #3
Great piece Ohiogal Apr 2018 #4
The gunners. Blue_true Apr 2018 #6
K&R TheSmarterDog Apr 2018 #7

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
2. Were all the victims black?
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 12:50 PM
Apr 2018

No race problem in America, nah.

And the shooter an avowed white nationalist? Or is that one of the other many shootings that day, cant keep track.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. Oh sure, just let the commies win
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 12:59 PM
Apr 2018

By golly, if Americans aren't willing to lay down their lives on the altar of the High Church of Redemptive Violence, what has become of our beloved country? Real Americans are prepared to be gunned down anywhere: in the street, in the tavern, at the shooting range, in a restaurant, at school. We know that death is the price to be paid for freedom. Well, some people's deaths. Not mine, you understand. But others.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
6. The gunners.
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 03:37 PM
Apr 2018

Are going to cry about all the precious rights that they have already given up. What about the rights of six and seven year old kids that got slaughtered by a psycho? How about the rights of every school kid who has to know the quickest, safest exit in case of gunfire? How about the rights of parents that send their kids off to school or a movie not realizing the hug they gave that child will be the last one they will give? Damned gunner's rights, I have had enough of their whining bullshit.

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