Tag: guns
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Victims
Sourced from CNN website The mall shooting in Allen, Texas resulted in the deaths of innocent people, plus the shooter. There have been over 200 mass shootings in the US so far this year. Republicans will say, those are bad numbers Eight lives lost. And such a high number of mass shootings. Republicans will give…
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Reactions
Attribution to J Dimas This is another chirp where my description of what people said does not do justice. These are quotes relating to the latest gun massacre in Allen, Texas. There have now been over 200 mass shooting the US this year and we are only into May. A number of these shootings have…
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True Deplorable
Attribution to J Dimas This is Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas. Yesterday’s chirp covered the execution style murder, Friday night, of five people, in Cleveland, Texas, including an eight-year-old child. Abbott’s first tweet, Saturday morning, was of a cute dog, with the caption, “all smiles for the weekend” Pretty insensitive tweet, given what happened…
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Barn Door Open
Sourced from NBC website – By CNN Newsource Pristine Villarreal This is Ralph Yari. He went to pick up his siblings He went to the wrong house He knocked on the front door and got shot twice, including one shot in the head. He is recovering from his wounds. It is a miracle he survived.…
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Flummoxed
Sourced from Insider website – Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Trying to come up with a title for today’s chirp. The title, above, was the only thing I could come up with. The NRA had their annual convention, last weekend, in Indiana. First irony, attendees were not allowed to bring guns into the convention site. Second irony, this…
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Obvious Irony
Attribution to Amazing Almonds A short but obvious chirp today Republicans say they are for limited government involvement and control. Yet, Republican led state governments are firmly involved in women’s reproductive rights and education curriculum. State governments also are involved in gun rights (more guns the better) and religious rights. The above picture is a…
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Sick
Photo sourded from UK Daily Mail website I was going to go into a lengthy chirp today about the back and forth between Democrat and Republican congress people over the Nashville shooting I was going to give quotes made by both sides. I can not do it though. Some of the quotes of the Republican…
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Go To The Devil
There was one Star Trek episode, back in the 1960’s, where Kirk told a Klingon warrior to ‘go to the Devil’. I honestly don’t know if you could say ‘go to Hell’ on tv back then, or if the producers decided not to use that term. So, restraining myself, after the shootings in Nashville, yesterday,…
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Pro Life BS
Attribution to RCraig09 – Own work A new year and same old story Three weeks in and there have already been 39 mass shooting in the US. There have been two in California resulting in 18 dead so far. There were other mass shootings as well, in the last couple of days, but they were…
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Catch Phrases
Repiublicans use a number of catch phrases after a mass shooting. There is the standard “thoughts and prayers” This phrase has been thrown back at them. There is the “now is not the time to talk about gun control”. They are starting to a roll out a new, already wearing this, phrase “There is no…