Can we be frank together for a second? I’m not here to talk thoughts and prayers with you. That shit clearly doesn’t work.
Step 1: Be very angry that this keeps happening.
Step 2: Vote along party lines for same candidates over and over.
Step 3: Be very happy your team won.
Step 4: See step 1.#Uvalde #lawtwitter— Lawprofblawg (@lawprofblawg) May 24, 2022
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Let’s talk facts. Mass shootings are America’s Ford Pinto and we’d much rather sing abstract praise about liberty than issue a product recall.
The whole country NEEDS to witness this anguish. We have become numb to these horrific murders of children, black senior citizens food shopping, and on and on- in this country.
The 2nd Amendment was not written about AR-15's!!!
I am vacillating tonight between RAGE and TEARS!! pic.twitter.com/2RxS0TLdPY— NJSpEd-MSEd🇺🇦Donna-Women'sRightsAreHumanRights!! (@daschmidt883) May 25, 2022
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These aren’t unforeseen circumstances. This is our normal. Anywhere else, people do more than throw up their hands and say “What can you do?” when some mother holds the remains of what is probably their child because identifying victims became difficult.
26 years ago, a gunman entered
Dunblane Primary School in Scotland,
killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK
govt responded by enacting tight gun
control legislation. In the 9400+ days
since, there have been a total of O
school shootings in the UK. #Uvalde— Peter Frampton (@peterframpton) May 24, 2022
insane how the only notable change since Sandy Hook is that kids are now formally trained to hide, barricade doors, fight, or run for their lives. that was the solution. to literally put the responsibility on them to figure it out and wish them luck.
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) May 24, 2022
Here in the land of the free, guns kill more kids than cancer. Or anything else for that matter, given that they are the leading cause of death among children and teens.
If the question is:
“How many kids need to die before Republicans do something about gun violence?”
The answer is:
“All of them.”
— Chris Breen (@BodyofBreen) May 25, 2022
And I don’t want this to come off as an “aren’t the Democrats so much better than right-wingers” post. The country is gun crazy; where else would people respond to sneezing and coughing with buying a gun? We’re one of the few places where Poops McGee’s graduation photos even make sense, not to mention could become a rallying cry.
Kaitlin Bennett, the Kent State University graduate who gained Internet fame with graduation photos where she posed with an AR-10, will host an open carry rally at the university this fall. Get the details here: https://t.co/oVstOwpDeL pic.twitter.com/qAKDJAOYEb
— clevelanddotcom (@clevelanddotcom) August 13, 2018
Let’s stop pretending we don’t know why these mass shootings are a common occurrence. It’s because our culture grooms gun and vigilante worship. How else would you explain the widespread adoption of a Punisher ethos among the people whose only job is to literally uphold the law?
Jerry Conway the creator of the punisher character changed the symbol on the identity to push away from the actual police and stated; “the punisher is a represenitive of the failure of law enforcement in order to address the concerns of who feels abandon by the legal system” pic.twitter.com/QmhbLaC4Zb
— Kenny Akers (@KeneAkers) March 9, 2022
Part of it is a desperate thirst for recognition.
Psychologists: we should not turn mass shootings into a media circus because it inspires copycats that know it will get them the same attention
The media when a mass shooting happens: pic.twitter.com/GFuBSdR7l6
— CryptidWorks ✟🦊🌐 (@CryptidWorks) May 24, 2022
And despite the red herring chalking the shootings up to a lack of mental health resources, valid as that is to address, many of these shootings were made of sound mind.
An observation to take into account:
In white supremacist / far-right attacks, the attacker doesn't hide their motivation. See: Anders Breivik, Dylan Roof, Brenton Tarrant.
They are usually 'proud' of it and say so, either via a written manifesto or verbal one.
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) March 19, 2021
“Thoughts and prayers” are just the politician’s version of “That’s the cost of doing business.” And business will continue to boom until we start giving an actual fuck about how easy it is to access guns and take lives with them.
My haters memed me into a lucrative career that lets me travel the country, do what I want, and have a platform to be heard. Thanks so much to everyone that gave me free advertising in 2019. Let's do it again this year. #GunGirl2020
— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) January 2, 2020
Friendly reminder that not only did George Zimmerman murder Trayvon Martin and get off scott free, he has not-so-subtly bragged about it on twitter after being acquitted, sued Trayvon's family, sold the gun he used to murder him for $250,000, and signs packs of skittles for fans. pic.twitter.com/9cKJVIVvq2
— Bryanna Gary (@bry_yvette_gary) June 18, 2020
I know there’s been backlash against people exercising their constitutionally backed First Amendment right to protest in front of people’s homes, but something has got to give. Voting ain’t cutting it, and if protesting in front of governors and lawmakers, chanting the names of the children, mothers, fathers and grocery store shoppers is what it takes to prevent 18-year-olds buying assault rifles as soon as possible or domestic terrorists from shooting up Black churches, so fucking be it.
God bless America. And if you’re reading this, God bless you. Because based on widespread crisis fatigue and the fact that we’ve we’ve already had 213 mass shootings this year, I doubt that number is gonna drop off any time soon. And God bless the parents from these schools who were not able to hear their children breathe again:
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.