GEORGE HARRISON

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

Christian priorities.

There will never be enough children with their brains splattered all over a classroom wall to satisfy the blood lust of Americans.

Christianity at its finest.

It's the christian way.

It's the MAGA way.

It's the American way.

My Independence Day Message To Gun Nuts Everywhere

I'm tired of hearing about how carrying guns in public is some declaration of our rights. It's just a way to make people more afraid and used to living in their self-made prison.

By Karoli Kuns — July 2, 2014

Independence Day: When we celebrate the nation's independence by shooting projectiles into the air intended to resemble 'bombs bursting in air.' Or something.

Wouldn't it be great to celebrate the nation's independence by actually living in a society that cared about liberty for everyone instead of just white, gun-toting Christian conservatives?

Let's be honest. States that glorify guns as implements of liberty aren't promoting freedom; they're promoting fear. The best we can hope in their vision of liberty is not to be in the line of fire when someone unloads a few rounds into someone else they're pissed at.

How twisted is it to define liberty as having the right to inflict fear, harm and possible death on someone else?

A life free of paranoia and fear feels much more like independence. Living afraid to go to the movies, the mall, or even out to a fast food restaurant feels much more like prison.

The open carry whackos driven by their need to sport their penises guns in public aren't proclaiming liberty. They're claiming their right to intimidate other people and minimize others' rights in favor of their own. Desensitize everyone, and no one will notice when they start using them to bully people of color, women, and other groups they conquer, right?

News flash: It's not liberty to sacrifice 20 children for one insane person's right to carry a weapon of mass death. It's not liberty for college students to be dead because an entitled, bitter student decided to go out in a blaze of glory. That's not liberty and it's sure as hell not freedom.

They want us all to believe we have to have guns to be free. I don't believe that. I never have, and I never will.

This Independence Day, I'm declaring mine. I won't visit states with laws permitting open carry and I won't patronize national businesses that permit it. We don't have to live by their rules, even if they have guns and I don't. But I'm not stopping there. If they want liberty, they can start by being responsible and considerate of others.

They can leave their guns at home, locked up with the key in their pocket. Liberty is choosing to respect other people, not trampling all over them.

Americans use children for target practice, their mangled, unidentifiable bodies for fundraising, and their brains splattered over the walls for lube.

Bill Bramhall

New York Daily News

So where will the NRA be holding their terrorism fundraising event today? (At least Michigan is safe until Thursday or Friday, right?)

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There are two kinds of Americans:

1. The minority that is outraged, heartbroken, and fighting tooth-and-nail to regulate guns and reduce the mass slaughter of children, non-white churches, and grocery store shoppers - like in every other civilized nation on the planet.

2. The majority who would kick their own kid into the line of fire at the slightest chance of fulfilling their God-given right to possess, jerk off to, and/or use as needed wanted enough AR-15s to fill a U-Haul because 'Murica Fuck Yeah. 

If you think there is a third kind of American, you're fucking delusional.

In case you were wondering, the GOP-sponsored NRA fundraiser for today was at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

This diagram was drawn 2788 American mass shootings ago.

This Tweet was written 3506 American mass shootings ago.

The more children with guns in Missouri today, the less people in Missouri tomorrow.

√  Darwin approved

You can't have mass slaughter without profiteering enablers.

"The biggest danger of taking your child to a drag show is that a christian could show up with a gun."

Truer words have never been  spoken.

[Photographer unknown to me.]

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.