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#298821 19-Jul-2022 14:23

Bang bang shoot shoot. Knuckle-draggers are celebrating the 'good guy with a gun' who took out a bad one the other day. They seem to think this makes some kind of point in a country where more people die from shootings than from car accidents.

The good guy in this case does seem to have genuinely been one, though you do have to wonder why he was carrying a weapon at all on an innocent shopping trip with his girlfriend. Maybe that's just what good people in America do these days.

Anyway, he has been credited by authorities with correct and responsible actions, not to mention eliminating the threat. Everyone is calling him a hero.

Good on him. He probably is. How fortunate he was in the right place at the right time. Only now every wannabe wild west fantasist in the country, spurred on by the NRA Neanderthals, is going to be thinking hey cool, I can stop a bad guy and be hero worshipped too. Except people who think like that are a clear and present danger to everyone around them.

It is now only a matter of time, probably not much, before armed Walter Mitty types start blowing away people carrying canes or reaching for their wallets. The good guy this time seems to have been calm and disciplined. He correctly assessed the situation and responded appropriately. Don't count on the next one being anything like that.

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#2944981 21-Jul-2022 21:07

Rationalizing the violence of Trump coup, a Republican uses the US Second Amendment, which states "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Jamie Raskin utterly humiliates Republican at hearing, gets ovation

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#2945816 24-Jul-2022 09:53

The Independent : Matt Gaetz claims active shooter alert bill designed to make people ‘hate’ Second Amendment rights

Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has come out against a proposal to create a nationwide active shooter alert system, calling the effort an effort to “programme” citisens to “hate” the Second Amendment.

“It’s because they want you to be afraid of the Second Amendment. It’s because they want you to be afraid of responsible gun ownership,” Mr Gaetz, who has previously received money from gun groups, said on the House floor on Wednesday.

“They hope that if they programme you and bombard you long enough, that you’ll hate your own Second Amendment rights, or that you may tattle on your neighbour, who is lawfully and rightfully exercising theirs,” he added. “The American people should not fall for this.”

The bill, the Active Shooter Alert Act, was proposed in February, and would create a localised emergency alert system akin to the Amber Alert for missing children.

The legislation has bipartisan support in Congress and endorsement from law enforcement groups like the National Fraternal Order of Police.
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A previous attempt to pass the bill through a fast-tracked process failed in June, after sponsors couldn’t secure a two-thirds vote for the proposals.

Every day, 12 children die from gun violence in America, and another 32 are injured, according to Sandy Hook Promise, a gun safety advocacy organisation.

Firearms are the leading cause of death for US children and teens.

There have been 23,515 gun deaths across the US in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, including some of the worst mass shootings in US history.
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#2945850 24-Jul-2022 11:36

If the gun lobby are going to use this as an example of their good guy with a gun, I wonder if they will mention that while the gunman used an AR-15-style rifle to commit a mass murder, firing 24 rounds within 15 seconds, the good guy with the gun only needed a handgun.

It's also worth mentioning that of 434 active shooter cases in the US from 2020 to 2021, an armed bystander shot the attacker in just 22 of the incidents. In 10 of those, the bystander was a security guard or an off-duty police officer.

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#2950141 3-Aug-2022 12:07

Washington Post: Atlanta’s canceled Music Midtown festival puts lax gun laws under scrutiny

As gun-control legislation stalls at the federal level, developments in the music festival circuit have underscored the impact of state laws: Atlanta’s Music Midtown festival, originally set for next month, was canceled Monday because of a Georgia court ruling that prevented organizers from banning guns on festival grounds.
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#2950894 5-Aug-2022 12:03

The Guardian: Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1m over false Sandy Hook claims

The jury in Alex Jones’s defamation trial on Thursday ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist to pay $4.1m in damages over his repeated claims that the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

Jurors in Austin, Texas, gave their verdict after deliberating about one hour Wednesday and seven hours Thursday at the end of a nine-days-long trial.
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Heslin and Lewis, whose son Jesse Lewis was killed during the mass shooting, took the stand during the trial and detailed the mental suffering, death threats and harassment they weathered from fringe conservatives after

Jones went on the rightwing conspiratorial outlet Infowars as well as his other media platforms to trumpet lies that the 20 children and six adults murdered in the 2012 Connecticut school massacre never actually died.

Instead, Jones claimed for years that the victims and their loved ones were “crisis actors” carrying out an elaborate ruse to force gun control.
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Jesse Lewis’s parents said they would need much more than an apology to be made whole and pleaded for jurors to hold Jones to account after they argued that he made it impossible for the couple to heal from their child’s killing.

Jones’ falsehoods about the Sandy Hook murders form part of a larger body of misinformation and theories for which he has had to apologize – including his touting of the so-called “Pizzagate” conspiracy that falsely claimed a Washington DC pizzeria was home to a child sex-abuse ring. That myth, consumed by Jones’ millions of followers, prompted a man to go there with a high-powered rifle and fire shots inside in 2016.

Prior to the trial, Jones sought to financially shield his media company, Free Speech Systems, which houses Infowars. Free Speech Systems recently filed for federal bankruptcy protection, prompting Sandy Hook families to file a separate lawsuit alleging that the company is using shell entities to protect Jones’s and his family’s millions.
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#2952628 9-Aug-2022 16:46

Mentioned in passing in the following video The Daily Beast: [Doctor evil] Roger Stone urges [fellow villian] Alex Jones to Sue His Own Lawyer as 'Intimate Messages' Between Duo Leak

Sandy Hook Families Attorney Mark Bankston Joins TYT To Discuss Alex Jones Case

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Mark Bankston, the attorney representing Sandy Hook school shooting families, joins TYT to discuss the important takeaways from the Alex Jones defamation trial. Ana Kasparian and Mark Bankston discuss on The Young Turks.

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#2958601 24-Aug-2022 11:17

Note this is in Georgia.

This year Governor Brian Kemp signed the Georgia Constitutional Carry Act into law in April 2022. The law eliminates the government permit requirements for carrying firearms in public.

Idiot Walmart shopper shoots four people after fumbling his gun