Elon Musk backs 'tight' background checks for all gun sales in wake of mass shooting in Texas

[calguy]

I post this link to demonstrate how ridiculously pompous these billionaires have become. You didn't hear anything about what Elon Musk felt about anything besides his business interests, and frankly, nobody really cared.
Now the 'great' Elon Musk makes a play to buy a social media company, and suddenly everyone's supposed to take everything he thinks seriously.
Totally ridiculous.

"Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called for “tight” background checks for all gun purchases while also backing gun ownership as a “safeguard” against political tyranny — a day after a lone gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in south Texas.

In an email to CNBC, Musk blamed the media for giving murderers the attention he believes they crave by covering mass shootings."

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/25/elon-musk-backs-tight-background-checks-for-all-gun-sales-in-wake-of-mass-shooting-in-texas.html

[MuseRider]

1. Does anyone give

a flying f*** what he has to say about this? They (he) really do (does) think they (he) control everything. It may look like that to them but I hate to tell them that there are more people out here who do not care or even want his opinion than he thinks.

[Effete Snob]

3. amen

I care more about the opinions of MuseRider than Elon Musk.

[MuseRider]

4. You would be the first!

This guy just pisses me off by existing. I guess he cares less about that than I do his opinion. What a strange place we are in.

[rurallib]

2. So, Elon, you still voting Republican?

Oh yeah, I forgot. Biden threatened to raise your taxes. That's a deal breaker.

[rogue emissary]

14. Exactly, one of many measures Republicans don't support and will fight.

[grumpyduck]

5. Elon, STFU.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. This effing guy

Seriously - he backs it - until someone says something mean about him. And of course, he blamed the media.

Very trumpian of him.

[SoonerPride]

7. Elon is gonna get kicked out of his new best friends club.

They won't like that at all.

[Hobo]

8. Who gives a fuck what this guy has to say on any subject?

Just STFU

Hobo

[leighbythesea2]

9. F Elon

And his desire to comment on everything.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Safeguard?? Whoa, that's a real knee-slapper you have there, Elongie Man. You mean like Jan 6??? /nt

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Funny how these bad guys in the press just happen to jump on anything...

Saint Elon has to say about his own ventures.

Where would Tesla be without the press breathlessly repeating his pep talks?

[PSPS]

12. Big deal. So does almost everyone else. Doesn't matter with our minority-rule form of government.

Maybe Musk thinks that his opinion will be the tipping point, as in "I have spoken!" The media follows this charlatan around and breathlessly reports his every utterance almost as much as they do with trump.

[SergeStorms]

13. Oooooh, that'll leave a mark....

with his newfound buddies on the right.

Thems fighten words, Muskboy.

[Beakybird]

15. He's not against the murders. He's against the murderers getting the attention that he craves.

[maxrandb]

16. Call me when this dipshit supports background checks enough

to move his fucking business out of Texas.

Oh! And who gives a rats ass what he thinks about anything?

[Grins]

17. "...Musk blamed the media for giving murderers the attention..."

Said the guy spending BILLIONS to buy some of that media? That will allow the gun culture freaks that attention?

Just go the fuck away, Musk.