I love the headline of Kate Riga's report on Clarence Thomas' lone dissent in the Supreme Court ruling curbing the "right" of a proven domestic abuser to carry arms:
"Only Clarence Thomas Would Let Domestic Abusers Keep Their Guns In New Ruling"
@wdlindsy it's a pretty pathetic indictment of the institution in general that in order for them to behave even remotely ethical and as a democratic institution, constant vigilance and reprimand by journalists and their peers is required, and even then it's still optional.
Court expansion is the only cure and it should be made very clear it is being done to counter the lack of ethics of the current court so that it can be remembered clearly in history.
3 people were killed & 10 wounded in a #MassShooting at a grocery store in #Fordyce, AR Fri.
Of the 10 wounded, 2 were police officers. The shooter, identified as 44-yr-old #TravisEugenePosey, was also wounded & taken into custody.
Posey, a resident of New Edinburg, is expected to be charged w/3 counts of #CapitalMurder, w/additional charges pending, acc/to an #Arkansas State Police news release.
“What today’s bill does is return things to the status quo set by Trump, saying bump stocks are dangerous & should be prohibited,” Sen ChuckSchumer…said Tues. “#Senate#Republicans …supported #Trump’s ban on bump stocks back then, so they should support this bill today.”
In an exclusive essay for PEOPLE, the married #Arizona lawmakers share how a #gunman stole their dreams of having a child together — & why they fear politicians will do the same to other #families
Sen #MarkKelly & #GabbyGiffords: “Our lives changed forever on Jan 8th, 2011, when a gunman opened fire at a ‘Congress on Your Corner’ event in Tucson. 6 lives were lost, many more were injured, & Gabby was shot in the head. Of everything that changed that day — …halting our careers, the …long, difficult road to recovery — we also lost something we wanted very much: the opportunity to have a child together.
“The #shooting happened on a Sat morning. 2 days later, we were supposed to have an appointment at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington, where Gabby had been receiving #fertility treatments, to have our #embryos implanted to try to begin a #pregnancy. Like a lot of folks, we got married a little later in our lives. …We wanted to grow our family together & were fortunate enough to be able to pursue the only option for us: in vitro fertilization, or #IVF. Gabby never made it to that appointment.
Of the 9 victims of Sat’s #MassShooting at #RochesterHills Brooklands Plaza #SplashPad, 2 survivors were released from hospital, a 37-yr-old woman & 77-yr-old man, while the 7 others remain in hospital. 2 remain in critical condition, including an 8-yr-old boy who was shot in the head, though he appears to be making amazing progress.
The court's ruling unwinds one of the few actions the federal government has taken in recent years to combat #GunViolence, as Republican opposition in Congress has made comprehensive #firearms restrictions highly unlikely. The case did NOT involve the #2ndAmendment, but was one of several before the justices this term involving #federal#regulatory#power.
In 2001 a fool tried to blow up a jet with a shoe bomb so we've had to take off our shoes at the airport for the last 23 years. In 2006 morons tried to blow up a jet with liquids, so for 18 years we can't bring liquids onto a plane.
But in 2017 a lunatic murdered 60 people in Las Vegas, and that got the bump-stock firearm he used banned for seven whole years until yesterday. #Ammosexuals#guncontrol#Scotus
@Albatross Denmark's last school shooting was in 1994. The death count was 2, because the only weapon the disturbed gunman could get his hands on, was a traditional shotgun for duck hunting.
"A vote for Trump is a vote for more gun violence. It got lost in the coverage, but Trump promised the NRA that he would repeal all of Biden's gun safety actions. …
Trump promised, 'In my second term, we will roll back every Biden attack on the Second Amendment.'
@wdlindsy Gov. Abbott recently pardoned a man who very clearly murdered a protester in cold blood. If Trump wins, shooting protesters will be legalized sport.
Thurs, the #Biden admin announced they are closing what is known as the #"GunShowLoophole," by tightening up the definition of what it means to be "engaged in the business" of selling #firearms.
The #ATF has just implemented a change in the federal register language, which was previously more specific to who was selling guns, & the agency did it in accordance w/the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, passed in 2022.
“It will also close the #GunShowLoophole & it closes the fire sale loophole as well by clarifying how #firearms dealers who go out of business or lose their #license must go about liquidating their inventory,” #MerrickGarland told reporters. “Under this #regulation, it will not matter if #guns are sold on the internet, at a gun show or in a brick & mortar store, if you sell guns [you] must conduct #BackgroundChecks.”
A Trump Whitehouse (or just about any Republican now, really) is a danger to children's, women's, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC's rights and lives.
There's a very real danger of trans people being literally legislated out of existence in the US. It's already happening in some states. Denying access to gender affirming care and HRT is violence against trans people and it comes with a body count.
There's a very real danger of women losing their bodily autonomy. Roe v. Wade was already overturned, and they've repeatedly tried to go after birth control. Forcing women to give birth is violence and comes with a body count. Hell, Alabama is one step short of forcing women to carry Easter eggs to term.
There's a very real danger of more children losing their lives to gun violence. Many Republicans seem to value their freedom to openly carry implements of murder over the lives of our sisters, brothers, and kids. I don't think I even need to say it, but shitty gun control enables violence and comes with a body count.
Update: Fuck Katie Britt and her stupid fear-mongering 😬 face.
I haven't wanted to reach through my phone and punch someone this much in a long time.
@alice it’s insane to me that I’m seriously looking for a house in an area where I will never be warm (because hothouse flower), and selling a home I’ve spent decades turning into a wildlife sanctuary, so that my trans daughter can be safe and get medical care and not be worried about heavily armed rednecks killing her.
And the Supremes have me real worried that even if we do manage to financially manage a move at this age, in this market, they’ll strip the rights from the entire country. We’re two cases away from them removing gay marriage and gay rights.
It’s madness to me that a tiny minority of christofacists have gotten control of an entire whole ass country.
Prosecutors & the defense atty for #JamesCrumbley, father of the #OxfordHighSchool shooter, #EthanCrumbley, painted conflicting views during his #trial Thurs, w/one side saying he was the one adult who could've prevented his son's rampage, while his atty disagreed.
A laboratory found a pattern of cell damage that has been seen in #veterans exposed to #weapons blasts, & said it probably played a role in the gunman’s spiral into #violence.
SARS-CoV-2 loves damaged tissue. I'm sure they didn't test his brain for persistence of infection, but if he ever had Covid--a near certainty--it was there, silently doing its thing.
Second paragraph of the introduction goes a long way towards explaining why. Without diving into the mechanics, so many of the factors associated with escalated pathogenicity are present in TBI tissue.
And I am thinking of all the people, especially global majority people, who never get diagnosis or treatment for this kind of brain damage, and instead get punished