A young racist white man walked into a black church in Charleston, SC -- the Emanuel AME -- and slaughtered nine people. Shot them to death. He methodically reloaded his handgun as necessary. It was a clear hate crime. His motive was racial terrorism. And this little fuck seems proud of it.
Where did he get the gun? His father gave it to him for his birthday. (Nice "gift", dad, you asshole.) And where did the shooter get his white supremacist beliefs? Probably another gift from dad.
Sad and angry, President Barack Obama said this:
"Once again, someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting his hands on a gun."
"At some point, we have to reckon with the fact that this typre of mass violence does not happen in other advanced advanced countries . . . with this kind of frequency."
"It is in our power to do something about it."
Will we? Not if the right wing keeps getting its way.
Politician Bobby Jindal said the President's comments were political and "completely shameful." Wrong! Obama was completely truthful and you are the completely shameful political wanker.
Some idiot on Fox News suggested the outcome would have been different if the church members were carrying guns. Oh yes, the solution is always more guns! Wrong! We've tried that, done that, are still doing it. America has more guns per capita than any other nation in the world, by far. The result? We average 32,000 gun deaths per year. Our rate of gun homicide is 20 times higher than the combined rates of 22 other high-income, developed countries.
More guns = more gun violence, and less public safety. Period.
Our problem -- our shame -- is that far too many of our conservative politicians are paralyzed by fear and greed. They won't even pass a federal law requiring background checks. Yes, I'm talking about you, Sen. Robbie Portman, and all the other spineless worms just like you. You've sold your pathetic souls to the NRA.
Time after time, our hearts are torn apart by one gun-related tragedy after another. And the greater tragedy is, as Jon Stewart said last night, "we're not gonna do jack-shit."
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