Bill Bramhall

New York Daily News

QUENTIN R. BUFOGLE

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This whole "good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun" fantasy is pure, steamin' bullshit served up for a bunch of gun-humpin' imbeciles. As we ALL should've learned by now, before that bad guy gets snuffed, a whole lot of innocents are gonna die. What other life-threatening situation would we approach in such an ass-backwards manner? 

If people were being poisoned en masse, would we simply remove the lethal substance -- or just hand out some vials of antidote hoping that they might find their way down the right gullet in just the nick of time? 

Why this idiotic notion that it's somehow easier to stop a shooter in mid-rampage than using every available precaution to ensure that gun never finds its way into his hands in the first place??!

MALCOLM X

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If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong

to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies

and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us

violent abroad in defense of her. 

And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent

in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is

necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

OZZY OSBOURNE

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If guns don’t kill people, why do we give people guns when they go to war? 

Why not just send the people?

JOHN FUGELSANG

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Only in America can one be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself "pro-life."

CLINT SMITH

"No Parent Should Have to Live Like This"

The Atlantic, May 25, 2022

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I want to live in a country where my presence is not seen by some as an existential threat. But this feels like a fantasy. I want to walk past the school where my son will attend kindergarten next year and see a place that will keep him safe. But this is impossible. 

We live in a country that has failed us. Where legislation is written — and erased — by the gun lobby. Where manipulations and distortions of Second Amendment rights prevent politicians from enacting any semblance of sensible laws that would at least attempt to prevent this. Where claims about what our Founders wanted supersede the slaughter we see right in front of us. Where the cocktail of easily accessible guns and the normalizing of extremist views makes nowhere feel safe. There is no other country in the world where this happens. 

The fact that it does happen, and happens with such frequency, is reflective of a choice that has been made. But just because a choice has been made doesn’t mean that different choices aren’t possible. Different choices are possible.

SHERRILYN IFILL

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I don’t have a lot of words today, except to say that there is a concerted effort right now to convince you that “nothing can be done.” 

It is designed to make you give in to the exhaustion of this moment. 

Don’t believe it. 

It’s a lie. 

We have power if we mobilize it.

EZRA KLEIN

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Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that’s unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop a mass shooting in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn’t "too soon." It’s much too late.

OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY

Inside The Mind of an Introvert

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Guns make losers feel like winners. 

That's why people who suck at life don't want to give up their guns.

TAYLOR SCHUMANN

When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough

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I want more politicians to lose their jobs to do the right thing. Maybe your service is not about continually winning elections but winning the right one so you can make a brave once in a lifetime choice.