Perhaps this clip going viral is why, at his press conference today, he refused to take any questions from the press. Pretty interesting first day on the job.
This one was in Maine, where earlier this year state lawmakers voted down a 72-hour waiting period to buy an AR. Itās harder to buy Sudafed than an AR in Maine.
He may look like your city comptroller, but heās a full-on ChristoFacsist loon who believes the Earth is 6,000 years old and that the Founders based this Republic on biblical principles.
After they trot out their āthoughts and prayersā platitudes, gun fetishists inevitably pivot to mental health as the cause. OK, letās unpack that. If someone is in mental health crisis, how do we know if that person has access to guns? How do we cut off that access until the person is deemed mentally fit?
What resources should be available to monitor the mental fitness of people with access to guns? How do we keep track of people who have access to guns so that we know whose mental health we need to be monitoring?
āAnd people say, āHow can a young person go into their schoolhouse and open fire on their classmates?ā Because weāve taught a whole generation, a couple generations now of Americans, that thereās no right or wrong, that itās about survival of the fittest, and you evolve from the primordial slime. Why is that life of any sacred value? Because thereās nobody sacred to whom itās owed. None of this should surprise us.ā
Trumpās lawyers opened the day today still arguing with Judge Engoron over the sanction he imposed on Trump yesterday. Engoron told them (politely) to shove it, and Team Trump says it will appeal. Good luck with that.
A licensed attorney in any jurisdiction would not actually make a motion to dismiss a case that has already been decided expecting to have it granted. Itās all theater and his toadies lap it up.
Why are Republicans working so hard to make gun ownership universal for one and all when the character and motivation of these people are so different?
The right to own guns is not more important than the right of gun violence victims to safety.
Yes, because clearly if guns were outlawed for people who have mental issues, they wouldnāt have one. Itās unreal that people, like you, actually think that a deranged person wouldnāt find a gun if they were unable to own a gun legally.
Speaking of mental health, I found this to be an interesting discussion on how the lack of investment in young people - basically trickle-down economics - has created the fractured and dangerous country we live in today.
Donāt be put off by the title; itās not a lament about how hard it is to be a man today (it does get close to going off that cliff, but pulls itself back before it does).
To buy a car we require someone to have passed a test, maintain a license, register it and carry insurance. Iām down if he is.
In a separate clip, he trots out the old ānow is not the timeā dismissal. There have been over 500 mass shootings in the US in 2023 so, by that logic, the time to discuss gun violence is [checks notes] never.
Which is, of course, what he wants. As a devout Christian, he fully understands that the death of innocents is something of which Jesus was notoriously tolerant.
Fun Fact: Mike Johnsonās mandate from āthe peopleā is that he won his first elected office running unopposed (and ran unopposed for re-election each time) before running for Congress in a district gerrymandered to be R +30.
I think youāre missing the obvious: Johnson & Co will insist that all of those things that we do for cars are infringements on peopleās liberties and should also be done away with.