A small step in the right direction

Biden signs bipartisan gun measure into law
By Joe Erwin

President Biden on Saturday signed the most significant gun-violence bill in 30 years into law, then paused briefly to reflect on it.

“God willing, this is gonna save a lot of lives,” the president said.

The bill got through Congress in the wake of last month’s mass shootings at a grocery store in Buffalo and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Those two events horrified the nation enough to get ...

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politi ... story.html

Cops doing their jobs = no civilians/bystanders dead.

2 suspects dead, 6 police officers wounded in exchange of gunfire at Saanich, B.C., bank

Police say two suspects are dead, and six members of the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team are in the hospital following an exchange of gunfire at a bank in Saanich, B.C., on Tuesday.

Officers were searching for a potential third suspect and had issued a "shelter in place" advisory but lifted it at 6:25 p.m. PT Tuesday after announcing in a tweet it had not uncovered any further indication of such a person.

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Officials sue to halt sales of ghost guns to New Yorkers
KAREN MATTHEWS



New York City and state officials announced lawsuits Wednesday against 10 sellers of gun parts that the officials said can be assembled into untraceable ghost guns and sold without background checks.

State Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the weapons sold by online ghost gun retailers have been found at a growing share of New York’s crime scenes.

“These are dangerous weapons,” Adams, a former police officer, said at a Manhattan news conference with James and other officials. “We should not think these are just kits used for hobbyists. They are being used by murderers. All of them are illegal.”

President Joe Biden announced in April that the U.S. Justice Department was working on new regulations to crack down on ghost guns, which have no serial numbers and have been used in shootings around the country.

The New York attorney general’s lawsuit against 10 online gun sellers was filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan under a state law passed last year that allows New York to target gun makers as public nuisances. It seeks an order banning the companies from sending gun parts in New York as well as restitution for gun violence victims.

New York City’s law department filed a separate federal lawsuit seeking an injunction to stop five of the companies from selling to customers in the city.

James, a Democrat like Adams, said the companies “have sold tens of thousands of illegal ghost guns” to New Yorkers, including guns that “have actually claimed lives.”

The lawsuits were filed days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a century-old New York gun law restricting who can carrying a concealed handgun in public.

Christian Waugh, an attorney for Orlando, Florida-based Indie Guns LLC, one of the companies named in the New York lawsuits, said in a statement, “This is a groundless attempt to once again burden and limit the rights of New York City residents under the Constitution only days after the Supreme Court of the United States rebuked New York City for other unconstitutional restrictions on those rights.”

https://apnews.com/article/biden-new-yo ... c6a458445d

I was starting to worry about the lack of daily mass shootings in the US.

Yeah - we were having to make do with stories like this

Woman shot in head, killed while pushing baby stroller in New York City; suspect arrested

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nyc-upper- ... -arrested/

Dayum, you're equally sarcastic. I need to get on the ball.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we still see this



https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/statu ... ccXbA&s=19



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/angeli-r ... 94c1e7c72a

Then we have this



Note that says "City Council", not the police force.

Shooting at Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, leaves 6 dead and more than two dozen wounded, police say

(CNN)A mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade Monday in a suburb outside Chicago, Illinois, left at least six people dead and wounded more than two dozen others, Highland Park Police commander Chris O'Neill said.

Police are still searching for the suspect, who O'Neill described as a white man between 18-20 years old and wearing a T-shirt.
A rifle was recovered from the scene, he said. He said the attack appears to be "completely random" and the suspect appeared to shoot from a roof. O'Neill advised people to shelter in place.
A total of 31 people were transported to hospitals, according to hospital spokespeople.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/04/us/highl ... index.html

Uvalde parents make unprecedented move: being process to assault rifle maker Daniel Defense

Attorneys for the family of one of the victims of the recent Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting have begun the process and laid the groundwork for suing the manufacturer of the assault rifle used in the horrendous mass killing. They have requested marketing material from Georgia-based arms manufacturer Daniel Defense, the company who makes the AR-15-style assault rifle used to kill the student and ...

https://theproudliberal.org/ulvade-pare ... l-defense/

I just love the way the rabid right/pro-gun nuts use one mass shooting in any country that has good gun control laws as an example that gun control/bans don't work. One. That show the thought process of those people who cannot think critically. Or they are that bad at math. Not sure. lol

America's gun culture is unique. My photographs can help explain why.
This Fourth of July, we need to examine the privileges, contradictions and cost of freedom.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/fourth-july-musings-americas-gun-culture-viral-photos-rcna36397

So once born use kids for target practice.

John, those pictures in #116 make me physically ill. My stomach turns just looking at them.

Parade Shooting Live Updates: Gunman Planned Attack for Several Weeks, Officials Say
The 21-year-old wore women’s clothing to disguise himself, the police said, and fired more than 70 rounds into a parade crowd in Highland Park, Ill. Six people were killed and more than 30 wounded.
Robert Chiarito, Dan Simmons and Mitch Smith

The police said the gunman appeared to be shooting randomly and not targeting any specific groups.

The man in custody after the death of six people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago appeared to have spent weeks planning the attack and wore women’s clothing during his flight from a rooftop after firing more than 70 bullets, officials said on Tuesday.

The gunman “exited the roof, he dropped his rifle, he blended in with the crowd, and he escaped,” said Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, who added that a rapid effort to trace the gun and ...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/05 ... k-shooting

Sorry about that, Roseanne.

Finally - the solution to mass shootings - why didn't they think of this earlier?

FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR SAYS EXORCISMS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO TO STOP MASS SHOOTINGS
Forget about gun control: We just need to drive out the evil spirts.
BESS LEVIN

Too many doors. Not enough God. Unarmed teachers. Marijuana. Video games. Women being nags. Roe v. Wade. A lack of “trip wires” and “mantraps.” This is just a small sampling of the things that conservatives have attempted to blame mass shootings on over the last few months, a list that, as of Wednesday evening, now includes “spiritual problems,” the solution to which is, according to one Fox News guest, exorcisms.

Yes, on Wednesday former secretary of education Bill Bennett appeared on the network to explain that we don’t need gun control, we need to drive the demons out of would-be mass shooters. “I’m not sure we’re going deep enough. Yeah, I think you need police. You need parents for sure. You need schools, you need to clean up social media…. But you know, you may need an exorcist too,” Bennett, who served both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, said. “Before your audience shakes its head on that: If you look at these boys, these men, these young men, they have deeply spiritual problems. Deeply.”

Hey, why would anyone shake their head at the idea that the solution to the epidemic of gun violence in this country is to perform a fake ritual to rid young men of Satan, rather than, say ...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/07 ... -exorcisms

Sounds legit - after all, if Clarence Thomas can cite a 17th century judge who believed in witches and who thought women were property why not this?

It's all good. I just wish they would do the same to everyone. Then we'd get some sensible gun laws.

Is America the ‘Safest Country on Earth’?
After 19 children were killed in the 27th U.S. school shooting of 2022, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz from Texas claimed that America was the "safest country on Earth."
Dan Evon

On May 26, 2022, two days after 19 children and two adults were killed during a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, Sky News reporter Mark Stone asked U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, why these mass shootings only seem to take place in the United States. Before walking away from the reporter, Cruz responded by saying that America is the “freest, most prosperous, safest country on Earth.”

Cruz said: “Why is it that people come from all over the world to America? ‘Cause it’s the freest, most prosperous, safest country on earth. Stop being ...

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/05/27/ ... t-country/