they pledge allegiance to a fucking gun
as if you needed another example of how the Republican Party has gone off the fucking rails
here’s an item that happened last week and has been eating away at me all weekend.
Rep. Andrew Clyde, a Republican from Georgia who makes millions selling guns and ammunition, convinced more than a few of his dimwitted colleagues to remove their American flag pins and replace them with AR-15 pins.
(just imagine the howls of outrage from entire wingnut outrage/industrial complex if a Democrat replaced their American flag pin with anything. a book, for example.)
by the way, you may remember Andrew Clyde as the coward who screamed in terror on January 6th (and later famously described the insurrectionists as “tourists”).
look, I get that Americans have a constitutional right to guns (leaving aside for the moment the whole ‘well-regulated militia’ thing) and I’m not trying to argue that we shouldn’t. but only only a lunatic would argue that the public at large should have a right to own an arsenal of mass death.
a lunatic, or someone in the pocket of the NRA.
an AR-15 is not a hunting weapon. an AR-15 is not designed for personal defense. an AR-15 is a weapon of destruction. an AR-15 is designed to project a bullet with enough force to penetrate the helmet of an enemy soldier a quarter of a mile away. (now imagine what that bullet does to a schoolchild at point blank range.)
we have turned into a country where guns are the leading cause of death for children.
we have turned into a country where cops shoot first and ask questions later because out of necessity they have to assume the person they’re dealing with is armed. (I am in no way defending trigger-happy cops, I’m just pointing out the insanity of the situation.)
we have turned into a country where cops refuse to engage because they’re out-armed.
we have turned into a country where it’s easer to get shot than it is to get medical care for a gunshot.
for fuck’s sake, we have turned into a country where a 5-year-old child brings a gun to school and shoots his teacher. what in actual fuck.
this the America that Republicans celebrate when they fetishize guns.
the Republican Party has lost its fucking way.
the Republican Party is a death cult. the next time a Republican tells you that they’re pro-life, tell them to fuck straight off with that bullshit
Fuck every one of those fuckers until the fucking end of time. Full stop. Every single one of them.
Republicans are afraid of two things. Losing White privilege, and losing money. At least the Black Rs anyway. And I don't mean that as a racist statement, it's just that being non-White makes it difficult to assert White privilege. No, Black Rs are afraid of losing the money they worked hard to get, because they're afraid anyone in their own community might get the same advantage they had.
And, I would think that a certain amount of shame might be in order when a foreign country issues a travel advisory before one of their citizens comes to the US, to warn they may become the victim of gun related violence.
Ask any gun toter why they need to carry and they'll say for personal protection. Ask them against what and you'll get a plethora of answers, none of them good, most of them racist, classist, or just plain dumb. Then ask them why they want to live in fear and you'll hear them say they don't. It's merely precaution. Point out that precautions are mostly based in fear and you'll get an ear full. Also point out that the number of shooting deaths in other well developed "1st world" countries are far below the US, and you'll hear all the reasons why it's a wash. and how they don't have the freedoms we do.
And it's all hogwash.