https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/21/17028930/gun-violence-us-statistics-charts
Headline on Vox: “I’ve covered gun violence for years. The solutions aren’t a big mystery.”
One more thing…
Some people have high reverence for the Constitution and cast themselves as merely interpreting it strictly on the basis of the text only and/or what the original intent of the writers was.
It occurs to me that those are the same folks who really would like to rewind the clock back to a simpler time when only white men had the vote, and the elected representatives only had to answer to those voters.
Also, to a time when we stood alone as a country and didn’t have to deal with other countries or cultures (except to the extent of sinking pirates off the Barbary Coast).
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ywc/episodes/2018-04-12T12_12_10-07_00
Was thinking about this podcast today in the context of today’s school shooting, and remembered that I intended to recommend it. At some point, we decided the “ability” to take on the military with civilian small arms was more important than the lives of the tens of thousands people killed with small arms (mostly handguns) every year and this was somehow what the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote The Holy Constitution. Pretty sure that comes down to a Scalia-led decision in the 1980s that the 2nd Amendment specified an individual right to own firearms, as opposed to the right of a militia (whatever that would be in today’s terms, but not those rabid anti-government extremists that call themselves “Patriots”).
https://twitter.com/SethGoodtime/status/997486373853679616
«“Reporter: Was there any part of you that that thought this can’t be happening in your school?
Student: No, it’s happening everywhere. Figured it was a matter of time before it happened here too.”
Students shouldn’t expect to be shot at.
Santa Fe High School»
https://twitter.com/BlanksSlate/status/997225667019276288?s=20
«I’ve written thousands of words on why there aren’t more black libertarians.
This facebook post from the vice-chair of the Libertarian Party reminds me I only needed one: libertarians.»
Their work is done. Next project will be under a new name.
https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/1075/names-in-a-ledger
«Bailey believes that “linked fates” is a theme that extends from the book to the present day.
“What happens to one part of the American public happens to the other,” she says. “We can’t afford to see ourselves as ‘us vs. them,’ which is the way it was seen in slavery.
“What was done to the Butler slaves was the dislocation and dismantling of families. The same dislocation and dismantling happened to the Butlers as a couple and a family. … What happens to one part of the human family is happening to another part, even if they don’t think it is and even if it doesn’t happen right away.”»
This isn’t just a military problem, from my point of view, military Twitter are the only ones talking about it. Good thread AND replies.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/996759810648498179.html
And again. They’ll never quit. I may have mentioned that before.
Really, “Go away, I got mine” is how countries decline, I think.
«
Right now, Republicans have reason for optimism. Historically, turnout among young voters—by far the electorate’s most racially diverse generation—has plummeted in midterm elections compared with the presidential contests that have immediately preceded them. Turnout from presidential to midterm elections has also fallen more modestly among African Americans, and has slipped substantially among Hispanics as well.
»
Huh.
https://twitter.com/JessicaPost/status/996838223417696257?s=20
«Democrats are 16 seats away from flipping 8 state legislative chambers around the country. This November is HUGE.
I love this new #flipeverything video from @thedlcc feat. @corybooker. Watch: »
