Source-https://iowastartingline.com/2019/08/17/after-active-shooting-training-teacher-pleads-with-joni-ernst-on-guns/


Snip-"Though Ernst scheduled her Polk County forum at 7:30 AM on a Saturday, a crowd of about 150 showed up to the suburban Wallace Elementary School auditorium. About two dozen Ernst supporters, decked out in campaign t-shirts, gathered in the parking lot beforehand and cheered and encouraged Ernst as she spoke.

One of the most striking moments came early on with the second questioner, a teacher who works at the school.


As part of my teacher training this past week, I was asked to listen to popping sounds and then determine if they were gun shots or not,” said Ellie Holland, a speech and language pathologist teacher. “I was then asked to be trained to man a family reunification center to provide counseling to parents seeking their children following a catastrophic event.”

“My question to you today, Senator, is when can I plan to get back to trainings that simply teach children to read and write?” she asked."


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Schedules Town Halls in our blue area, he does so at the most inconvenient times too! But we show up anyway. He tried to ban the "agree" "disagree" cards too! He is one on the potential retirement list, although his district is reliably red.

Mine only have online townhalls and you have to request to attend and then they never send you an invite 😡

so she was hoping no one would show up? I'm so proud of these people for being there; she didn't get off/away so easily. I hope she really considers their concerns, especially the teachers'. That's no way to run a school.

That is not a teacher's job

to be prevented from buying a gun you need to have been adjudicated mentally ill in a court of law. For that to happen, we have to wait until a person commits a violent gun crime, goes to trial, pleads insanity and is found to be so and sent off to the happy hotel. There are rare instances when a person is deemed mentally ill prior to committing a crime, but it doesn't happen often enough to make a difference. Most of the recent shooters are your basic aggrieved, young white guys who think if they're miserable the rest of the world should be miserable, too. That's not nuts. The only way to keep them from possessing a gun is to put restrictions on gun ownership like background checks, insurance requirement, licensing and basic firearms training. And the only way to give their potential victims a fair chance to survive is limiting ammunition by both quantity and quality (no hollow points) and the weapons that are only made for one thing: killing human beings.

if they were all required to report for active duty in a well-regulated militia to use their weapons in war, it would thin the herd a bit.

Pass the ball to the mental health community and when that community can't identify every RWNJ, blame them.

then they need to start looking at amending the 2nd rather than passing laws which either can be tossed out by the courts or are abolished when the majority control of the government shifts to a party party that does not like the laws.

Asking Republicans to do something besides parrot “mental illness.”

to keep her mouth wet while she spreads lies for gun humpers.

to BUY OFF a REPUKE PIECE OF SHIT..

I doubt if it would have any effect on preventing potential mass murder's from getting guns. How do you demonstrate that a person is "mentally ill"?
Are the Republicans suggesting anyone who wants to buy and assault weapon first undergo a rigorous mental health examination?
I think it would be a better idea to apply that criteria to potential candidates for President, Vice-president, and Congress.
Maybe we could weed out the racists, hate-mongers, narcissists, meglo-maniacs, and mentally incompetents prior to their getting on the ballot.

But, in the immortal words of Dirty Harry, "that's not going to happen."

Patrick Phillips

history will only note with sadness and utter disgust that the tipping point was not Sandy Hook

Americans have not been impressed by Trump’s response to recent mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso. By 52%-36%, the poll shows they disapprove of how he has handled the aftermath of those tragedies. A 54% majority says that the language the president uses in his speeches and on Twitter bears significant responsibility for the shootings ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/18/americans-support-free-trade----and-are-worried-about-the-trump-economy-poll.html

Remember Chicago mayor Michael Bilandic? His failed response to snow removal caused his defeat in the Democratic mayoral primary in 1979.

President Carter was dogged by two things in 1980 - US hostages in Iran and inflation.

The GOP is turning a blind eye to the danger of assault rifles and thinks the problem is a marketing problem - blame the Democrats.

I like our chances. A lot.

Nick Coltrain, Des Moines Register
Published 1:15 p.m. CT Aug. 17, 2019
Updated 2:15 p.m. CT Aug. 17, 2019

... Ernst, a Republican from Red Oak, didn't endorse red flag bills, which would allow families or law enforcement officials to temporarily remove firearms from people who could pose a danger, and raised her own concerns with due process before confiscating firearms ...

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/17/iowa-senator-joni-ernst-town-hall-red-flag-law-gun-violence-debate-second-amendment/2039454001/

Let's blame mass shootings on mentally ill people with guns! And let's also be careful not to take anyone's guns away!

Has no clue that the tides are turning. Of course, all the Pukes are fucking assholes.

Such a divisive person.

Posted on August 17, 2019 by Dave Bradley

Looks like the NRA’s second favorite senator behind Moscow Mitch is getting her bona fides in for big donations from the gun lobby in early. They staked her to the tune of $3.1 million in 2014. Perhaps the NRA can do some “educational advertising” under the rules established by SCOTUS in Citizen’s United like they did for her in 2014.

At times Ernst sounds like a robot repeating right wing talking points without even seeming to understand what she is saying. Once again like a good right winger she repeats the lie that Chicago is the murder capital of the US despite gun sales restrictions. A little googling would have revealed to Ernst that her claim was false ...

You get the idea, folks. She does not want to protect you. She does not want to protect your children. She does not want to protect your grandchildren. She DOES, however, WANT TO PROTECT THE NRA! ...

https://blogforiowa.com/2019/08/17/joni-ernst-trashes-gun-laws-americans-want/

"representative" only protects herself and her donations. Just like the rest of the gop. She should have stuck to castrating pigs. Or else taken that special talent to her senate seat, and her fellow piggish gop members. Does she still own the bread wrappers she used to wear (yeah, right) over her shoes in winter?

Her sole purpose of serving in the United States Senate is to protect the gun industry. She is the worst kind of hack. She got elected on an "ol' shucks I'm just a farm girl" campaign of bullshit.

She is a terrible person and the people of Iowa should vote her out of office with a humiliating loss.

Sorry, but you ELECTED this unqualified POS in the first place.

Now you're stuck with it. TOUGH SHIT.

among the GOPers. If you make the 1+1=2 comparison, Americans - if we look at all the mass shootings- must be the most mentally unstable country in the world. Wonder why that is?

had diagnosable mental illnesses that were directly attributable to their actions? If not, these are just talking points and further stigmatizing people with mental illness. AND something that Republicans like Ernst have no plans or desire to do anything about anyway

The Republican idol Reagan.

From the second link: