So between KY & AL we had 24 injured and 8 people killed last night/this morning?

[Botany]

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KY 4 wounded & 2 dead
AL 20 wounded & 6 dead

I think those #s are right.

Their 2nd amendment freedoms seem to be hurting all of America's 1st amendment freedom and
that is the right to peacefully assemble.

BTW fuck the NRA, the gun makers, and the GOP.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Jesus, I've lost count.

[dalton99a]

2. Very soon, under 10 dead will be minor local news

[Botany]

3. Reports out of Alabama now are saying that the # of dead is 6

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n/t

[taxi]

4. Apparently, that is already the case

We somehow accept the numbers from the two shootings are totals for those states. Is it possible that there were no other shootings in KY or AL, populations 4-1/2 million and 5 million respectively. So far this year there have been 11,500 killed by shooting alone. It shouldn't be necessary to break down the numbers - a over/under count does exist.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/116-people-died-gun-violence-day-us-year/story?id=97382759

additional link with running numbers: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

[doc03]

6. The only way this will stop is if people get out in mass and protest

like during the Vietnam War. Last year and so far this year the death toll from guns
probably comes close to the total death toll in that war.

[Scrivener7]

5. And it sounds like both were in places where most of the people were

just minding their business and living their lives.

One in a park and another at a party at a dance studio?

No one is safe from it.

[Marius25]

7. The 2nd Amendment was a stupid, stupid idea

No other country has this problem, because no other country needs a 2nd Amendment, nor do they worship guns.

[Botany]

8. "They" seem to skip reading the "well regulated militia" part

n/t Where I am sitting in Columbus OH (clintonville) close to me we have had God only knows the # of deaths
and wounding via guns in the past few years.

[pandr32]

11. It's not the 2nd Amendment that is the problem.

It's how it has been misinterpreted, twisted, and pimped by the gun manufacturers, the NRA and the gun lobby, and the right wing gun nuts.

Many have claimed the wording is vague and most seem to ignore all but the words at the end: "...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." They, of course skip: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State...". It was ratified in 1791 along with The Bill of Rights. I believe there were only 14 states at the time.

The U.S. Constitution makes clear what a Militia is, how it is to be organized, regulated, funded, and ready for use. See Article I, Section 8. If one actually reads the U.S. Constitution first, and then the Bill of Rights there really is no misunderstanding of what the 2nd Amendment intended.

The 2nd Amendment is obsolete. We now have National and State Militia. The U.S. military covers land, sea, and air forces--along with State National Guard. All depend on the U.S. Congress for funding, etc. as set out in the U.S. Constitution.

[world wide wally]

9. I may have been mistaken, but Saturday, I was just saying that we hadn't had a mass shooting

in almost a full week.
WTF does this say about the "Land of the free and home of the brave"?

[niyad]

10. Sorry. Four on Saturday alone, 18 since 8 Apr, or 21 sunce 7 April.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. More thoughts and prayers

Link to tweet

[red dog 1]

13. Trending now on Twitter,

#BanAssaultWeapons
#GunReformNOW
#GOPGunsOverPeople


(and hopefully soon)
#TaxTheNRA