Mercedes Schneider: The Gutless, Weak, Cowardly NRA Issues a Lame Statement on Uvalde Massacre

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1. speduktr says:

   May 25, 2022 at 7:07 pm

   I read Mercedes blog post. I just can’t wrap my head around it. Did they totally ignore any reference to Uvalde so they could use their statement for the next shooting, too. Perhaps they have a stockpile of generic statements to choose from. Disgusting.

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   • NYC public school parent says:

     May 25, 2022 at 8:00 pm

     I don’t think they even have a stockpile. the NRA and Republicans say the exact same thing after every single mass shooting.

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     • dianeravitch says:

       May 25, 2022 at 9:20 pm

       The answer from the NRA and the GOP is always the same: Arm more people. Arm the teachers. Get more armed security guards. Arm everybody.

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     • SomeDAM Poet says:

       May 26, 2022 at 8:29 am

       “Arm more people with more arms”

       It would be good
       If doctors could
       Grow extra arms
       On “arming farms”
       To graft to folks
       Like cycle spokes
       To help for tasks:
       Adjusting masks
       Or holding guns
       To fight the Huns

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2. Bob Shepherd says:

   May 25, 2022 at 8:24 pm

   After the horible, trajik, and jist plane terible events yisterday, me and Darlene sends are thots n prayers fer a wurld without no Socialist child murderers n lifts those effected up in prayer to there savieur Jesus in who’s name we prays now is we finaly going to give ever teecher a AR? Another trajik consequince of CRT in are schools.

   –Boilerplate Republican Response to Another Day of Mass Child Murder in the United States

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   • Bob Shepherd says:

     May 25, 2022 at 8:29 pm

     And thanks to the brave oficers n first respondors who came in after n cleened up.

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3. quikwrit says:

   May 25, 2022 at 8:46 pm

   Grieving parents don’t need “thoughts and prayers” —they need for their children whom they sent to school that day to come home from school…but they never will.

   Those who oppose gun regulation say:
   “Mentally ill people kill, not guns” — but the fact is that other civilized nations have mentally ill people and there are no mass murders with guns because mentally ill people can’t get guns..
   “Criminals will have guns and we need guns to protect ourselves” — but the fact is that in other civilized nations criminals typically don’t have guns because guns are so hard to get as a result of regulation. In America, criminals have guns because guns are so easy to get.

   The fact is that gun advocates can’t face the facts.

   There are people and politicians who claim they need to protect fetuses from abortion —yet these same people do nothing to prevent beautiful, innocent, loved and loving living children from being slaughtered by unregulated guns.
   Hypocrites.
   Whitened sepulchers.

   The Supreme Court Has Clearly Outlined the Path to Constitutional Gun Control Laws:

   In the 2008 Heller ruling on gun rights, the U.S. Supreme Court’s CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY of Justices gave Congress, states, and cities a long list of gun regulations that the conservative Court Justices WOULD RULE AS CONSTITUTIONAL; just take a look below at how the conservative Justices provide lawmakers with the legal rationale and the action outline for gun control laws on pages 54-55 of the Heller decision. You can verify for yourself the following direct quotes from the Heller decision by reading the Court’s decision online at the web address listed at the end of this comment.

   First, the conservative Justices provide their blanket approval of various kinds of gun control, declaring: “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited…” [it is] “…not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”
   Then the conservative Justices invite enactment of specific gun control laws by clearly pointing out which laws they would approve of, declaring: “Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or on laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”
   The conservative Justices additionally state: “We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms. Miller [an earlier case decided by the Supreme Court] said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those ‘in common use at the time’ [when the 2nd Amendment was written]. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of ‘dangerous and unusual weapons’.”

   The CONSERVATIVE Justices didn’t HAVE to say any of this in their Heller decision — that fact that they took the opportunity to say these things represents the Justices clear INVITATION to lawmakers to take such actions to place limits on gun sales, gun ownership, and gun possession, telling the lawmakers by these words that these kinds of gun control laws would be OK with the CONSERVATIVE Supreme Court majority. So, now the ball is in Congress’s and the states’ court. Will lawmakers act or do what they’ve always done — nothing but talk.

   Texas law provided for armed security at that school and there was an armed guard on duty, and teachers legally have weapons in Texas — but the first to be shot was the armed security because the shooter wasn’t stupid. So, what’s the plan when the first to be shot are the armed security? Maybe arm the kids? What does it do to the mental health of young children when their teachers pack guns and the doors, hallways, and playgrounds are guarded by armed security? It tells children that school isn’t a safe place to be and that they could get killed there, and that creates anxiety and paranoia in the children, interfering with their ability to learn and impacting their entire spectrum of mental health not only at school, but also at home and everywhere. We will be raising generation after generation of paranoid kids…and end up with an entire nation suffering from mental health issues.

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4. Steve B says:

   May 25, 2022 at 10:14 pm

   The 50 Republican senators represent the “Thoughts and Prayers” cabal of the Senate.

   Thoughts and prayers to the families of murdered children and their teachers, while their wallets remain open to the donations and contributions of the gun lobby.

   Their thoughts and prayers are their cowardly claims that no decent human being should have to ever justify to another, especially when they have the power, but refuse to act…following the murder of innocent twelve and thirteen year old children.

   These so-called senators are as guilty as those who pull triggers on children in schools, due to their continued cowardice and refusal to take action.

   Voters must ask themselves who these 50 senators represent: Is it the people or the gun lobby? It cannot and must not be both.

   Rubio can point the finger at a deranged individual, but Rubio’s representation is even more so deranged, as well as destructive, and represents a betrayal to the people of Texas, with his refusal to pass tougher gun legislation.

   Rubio is one of the fifty, indirectly an accomplice due to his inaction, while hiding behind “thoughts and condolences”, buzz words to try to convey concern from the mouth, shallowness from the soul, indifference from the heart, and a conscience lacking humanity.

   Twenty families will grieve the losses in their lives for the rest of their own, while fifty senators offer their canned words, continuously betray the oath they swore to the nation, the states, and the people they vowed to defend.

   Send them all packing their bags in shame.

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5. peskyvera says:

   May 26, 2022 at 4:14 am

   Yeah…the NRA always ‘feels terrible’…same, old routine – same old blah, blah, blah. As the initials clearly state N-one R-emaining A-live. Perhaps the ‘stars’ in the American flag should be replaced with ‘skulls’.

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6. GregB says:

   May 26, 2022 at 8:54 am

   The NRA’s central historical argument that buttresses their mission is a myth.

   “The recent effort to find a new meaning for the Second Amendment comes from the failure of appeals to other sources as a warrant for the omnipresence of guns of all types in private hands. Easy access to all these guns is hard to justify in pragmatic terms, as a matter of social policy. Mere common law or statute may yield to common sense and specific cultural needs. That is why the gun advocates appeal, above pragmatism and common sense, to a supposed sacred right enshrined in a document Americans revere. Those advocates love to quote Sanford Levinson, who compares the admitted “social costs” of adhering to gun rights with the social costs of observing the First Amendment. We have to put up with all kinds of bad talk in the name of free talk. So we must put up with our world-record rates of homicide, suicide, and accidental shootings because, whether we like it or not, the Constitution tells us to. Well, it doesn’t.”
   https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/09/21/to-keep-and-bear-arms/

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7. Linda says:

   May 27, 2022 at 8:22 am

   Huffpo reports that guns are not allowed at the NRA Convention where Trump will speak.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     May 27, 2022 at 10:33 am

     The NRA did not allow guns in years when Trump was not there

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