I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

Trump is an embarrassment. Moscow Mitch had an opportunity to rid to GQP of him during the impeachment trial but wouldn’t do it. In other NRA / Ted Cruz news -

During the 2016 primary season, I forget which GOP Senator said this (might be a paraphrase): “If one of his colleagues were to shoot Ted Cruz on the Senate floor, nobody would testify against them.

So the shooter was inside the building for an hour before the police finally went in after him—but if only the janitor & lunch lady had been armed…

Arm every teacher, student & staffer, and what do you get? Do the words “circular firing squad" ring a bell? I saw a Dr. Oz campaign ad where he brags about teaching his son to shoot, then cuts to him shooting a clay pigeon (they bleeped out the shouted “PULL!"). Yeah—like rural PA (you know, the “Alabama" between Pittsburgh & Philly) will embrace a rich NJ suburbanite (living in a mansion in Cliffside Park near NYC) whose only gun experience is shooting skeet at the country club.

Next pol sucking up to the NRA who asks “Do I have your vote" will get the reply, “No, but you have my thoughts & prayers."

I've been up here in Toronto all weekend, and it's striking how there are no shootings on the local news. Doug Ford's campaign ads mention “carjackings," which surprises me—if there were no guns coming into Chicago from IN, MO & WI, carjackings would be next to impossible. (Show me a gang-involved shooting or mass transit crime where the gunmen—always men—had IL valid FOID cards for their guns and I'll show you a team of unicorn-riders doing dressage in the Olympics). Those smug a-holes who point to Chicago's gun laws as useless conveniently neglect to mention that they aren't being enforced.

Oh, Cardplayer, you forgot to mention the granddaddy (actually, grandmamma) of all US mass school shootings: 1988, Laurie Dann, at Hubbard Woods Elementary (between Winnetka & Glencoe, IL). Sadly, by today's standards it'd be small potatoes—5 shot, 1 child killed, a couple briefly held hostage before she killed herself in their home. Despite a long psychiatric history of OCD, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia (resulting in poisonings & a stabbing), she was able to get a Smith & Wesson and a Beretta. I shudder to think what would have happened had this occurred after the SCOTUS Heller decision enabling Illinoisans to get their hands on an AR-15.

This alone should totally dis-qualify the Loon. Then again, I do have the sensation that he won't run, but he can continue to get donations beforehand and as long as he hasn't formally said he is running he can basically keep that money. No one seems to want to figure -- he is GRIFTING only. He is far past any lucid thoughts ( if he ever had any, anyway ) and the media, as long as he is cagey still has something ( valuable to them ) to sell.

Yes, great parents -- start them all really early so they can be great marksmen. These are to me some of the sickest people on earth.

One of the first mass shooting that I can remember was at the University of Texas Bell Tower shootings in 1966. https://www.lvcriminaldefense.com/charles-whitman-the-texas-bell-tower-sniper/

It was pretty horrifying at the time. Now school shootings are common place and the tower shooting isleft off most lists of school shootings.

I have developed a slight ( maybe more than that ) aversion to the news. I have seen the time-line on Uvalde and it is sickening. In fact, some parents had to storm past anyone trying to stop them and go get their children out of the building. At the same time, some of them were stopped, even put in handcuffs to prevent their helping their children.

I don't know how those classrooms were set up -- but parents were able to go in and get their kids -- and if nothing else was accomplished, the police who were there could have at least done that much. The whole thing sounds like an exercise in futility and massive frustration with that lying dog of a governor, Abbott who needs desperately to be sent packing. I hope and pray that happens. He is worthless.

I do think/hope they will get to the bottom of all this, but I've had trouble watching the news on this one since it's third day on the news cycle. It begins to sound like things that should happen won't and that makes watching the news even harder. It is obvious that Reps. just want to by-pass all responsibility of Uvalde for THIER own supposed rights. Children have to be satisfied with the idiocy of whatever those soulesss entities might come up with and to date most of it is total trash.

cardplayer,

I remember that day very well. I was 13 years old and living in Montreal. A friend and I were on one of our long bike rides and of course I had my trusty transistor radio on my handlebars. We heard about it when we stopped for a break.

Nothing special here today, although SIL is making everyone breakfast. I'm still in the middle of trying/hoping to get past this just past week. It ALL bothers me, but this past one ( maybe because it soooo shouldn't have happened ) feels so negative on me. I think about everyone looking forward to getting out of school for a while -- then moving on to whatever was next. The parents looking forward too and now that is not even close I think to what is on peoples minds.

Glad Pres. Biden and First Lady Jill went to Uvalde. I do think it was very needed for the support of all -- parents of the lost children, families, classmates. They needed comfort and Pres. Biden knows so well what everyone needs.

Well now we know the proper department to help people get registered to pay taxes when they no longer deserve exemption.

Hmmmmmm.

and for now with the Loon, and Abbott, Cruz and all the other ignoramuses who admit to being Reps.

Abbott should be voted out for his power grid failures plus his pro-gun stance in light of children murders. Let’s see what Texans do. https://www.newsweek.com/beto-orourke-odds-winning-texas-governor-race-uvalde-shooting-1711130