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More Senseless Deaths

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Another day, another mass shooting at a school in the United States. Six dead, including three nine-year old children. It marks the 13th school shooting in the United States so far in 2023.

Yesterday it was in Nashville. Where will it be today? Tomorrow? Next week? It’s anybody’s guess. But you know it will happen. You know that there will be more children who will die needlessly in this country.

At least 57 people have died in 38 mass shootings in the U.S. so far this month alone, with another 133 injured. And in the first three months of 2023, there have been 130 mass shootings. Incredibly, there have been more mass shootings in the United States than there have been days this year.

Politicians are, as usual, sending out their thoughts and prayers to the people of Nashville. I think it was Albert Einstein who was alleged to have said that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. This reality of doing little more than sending out thoughts and prayers is absolutely insane.

I am mad as hell at the spineless GOP legislators who refuse to do anything about these mass shootings. Instead of proactively addressing the problem of the proliferation of guns in our nation, many red states politicians are, instead, loosening up the regulations and allowing open carry of loaded guns in more places with no permits required. WTF?

If Americans really want to make America great again, we need to start taking names and kicking asses. We need to vote NRA puppets out of office and replace them with legislators who support enacting stricter gun control laws, such as universal background checks and bans on assault weapons, in order to make it more difficult, not less difficult, for people to obtain guns and use them to commit violence.

Illustration by Golden Cosmos.

Fandango’s Flashback Friday — December 16th

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Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year.

How about you? Why don’t you reach back into your own archives and highlight a post that you wrote on this very date in a previous year? You can repost your Friday Flashback post on your blog and pingback to this post. Or you can just write a comment below with a link to the post you selected.

If you’ve been blogging for less than a year, go ahead and choose a post that you previously published on this day (the 16th) of any month within the past year and link to that post in a comment.

This was originally posted on December 16, 2012 on my old blog.

“God Hates Fag Marriages”

In a recent post, I expressed, in the wake of gun-related tragedies such as last week’s horrific shooting in Newtown, CT, my thoughts about the proliferation of guns, including assault weapons, in this country. In that post I commented:

The root causes [of gun violence and mass shootings] they [the NRA and gun advocates] say, are that too few citizens are armed; that we, as a society, have lost our Judeo-Christian beliefs and have forsaken God, who has, in turn, forsaken us; that the media immortalizes publicity hungry mass murders; and that there is too much mental illness in this country.

I then added, somewhat facetiously, I thought, “Surely some nutcases will no doubt blame these mass shootings on the wrath of God visited upon our sick society due to homosexuality and gay marriage.” Well, it didn’t take long for my unfortunate prediction to come true.

The infamous Westboro Baptist Church, known for picketing the funerals of fallen American soldiers and claiming that they deserved to die because the country for which they fought tolerates homosexuality, and whose website is, believe it or not, godhatesfags.com (which, since I first published this post, has since been taken down) is planning to picket the funeral of Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung. The WBC might also picket other funerals of the fallen, including those of children, from that tragedy.

The WBC website says the following:

How many more children will you sacrifice to your filthy fag marriages? You proved you hate your kids by making Connecticut one of the first states to institute fag marriage. The blood of the Newtown dead is on the hands of every preacher, teacher, parent, and leader of Connecticut. The dead children of Sandy Hook Elementary are better off dead than to continue being raised for such great wrath and destruction as you have brought to this land. You have a duty to teach your children to fear God or else leave them to desolation, darkness, and destruction.

When I read something like this, I am sorely tempted to go out and get myself a semi-automatic assault weapon and commit a mass shooting of everyone associated with the Westboro Baptist Church. 

Hey, isn’t this what the Second Amendment is all about? And it would do wonders for my mental health.

A Tragic Independence Day

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They were gathered along the main street in downtown Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago, to celebrate America’s Independence Day at the town’s Fourth of July parade. Mothers and fathers, son and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren all out for a fun day.

Then shots rang out. Chaos ensued. “Everyone was was running, hiding, and screaming,” a witness said. As of this writing, six people are dead and two dozen people have been taken to area hospitals with injuries. The shooter, who has yet to be apprehended or identified, is described as a white male, approximately 18 to 20 years old, with longer black hair, a small build, and wearing a white or blue T-shirt.

Police have said that a firearm has been recovered from the scene and it appeared the gunman was shooting from a roof. The weapon is described as a “high-powered rifle.”

So it’s once again time for our politicians, on America’s birthday, to send out thoughts and prayers. But take any meaningful action on gun control? Fuhgeddaboudit.

How many more tragedies like this must occur before we come to our senses?

We Need To Act…Now!

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Note: this video contains graphic content relative to school shootings. The subject matter may be difficult to watch. It was for me. It brought tears to my eyes.

This is not just an ad, this is reality for America’s school children. How can one watch this and not be affected by it?

This must stop!

The Idiots We Elect

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5A3BBFDF-0528-4CCB-855C-68E030A54342Matt Schaefer is an American attorney and Republican politician who is currently serving in the Texas House of Representatives.

In light of the yesterday’s mass shooting in Odessa, Texas, the second mass shooting in Texas in less than a month, this Texas politician went on Twitter to express his position, as a Texas state lawmaker, on how he would “do something” about all of the gun violence in Texas and all across the country. Are you ready for this?78C7EE00-A6CF-4328-AF93-3C7F662E8EB3Here are his statements for what he is and is not vowing to do:

  • I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period. None of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a person with evil intent.
  • I say NO to “red flag” pre-crime laws. NO to universal background checks. NO to bans on AR-15s, or high capacity magazines. NO to mandatory gun buybacks.
  • What can we do? YES to praying for victims. YES to praying for protection. YES to praying that God would transform the hearts of people with evil intent. YES to fathers not leaving their wives and children. YES to discipline in the homes. 
  • YES to supporting our public schools. YES to giving every law-abiding single mom the right to carry a handgun to protect her and her kids without permission from the state, and the same for all other law-abiding Texans of age.
  • YES to your God-given, constitutionally protected rights. YES to God, and NO to more government intrusions.

So, in summary, Matt Schaefer, a Republican Texas state representative, says no to any and all gun reform initiatives and yes to prayers. No to bans on high capacity, military-style assault weapons and yes arming mothers. Oh, and yes to God and “God-given rights.”

By the way, if you’re interested in my thoughts on “God-given rights,” you might want to read this.