Subject: Re: Another Day Another Shooting...
That should scare you to death....

Meh.

Here's what scares me to death:

Republican leaders are now adopting increasingly autocratic measures, using the police powers of government to impose moralized regulations, turning private citizens into enforcement officers and expelling defiant elected Democrats just as county Republican parties, particularly in Western states, are electing militia members, Christian nationalists and QAnon believers to key posts.

And increasing numbers of republicans who embrace the racist great replacement theory.

And that on the right, more and more people find violence an acceptable mean to reach a political end.

And that "22 Republican attorneys general and 67 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives filed amicus briefs that called on Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Federal District Court judge in Amarillo, Texas, to invalidate the Food and Drug Administration's 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, which he promptly went ahead and did last week."

And that women who are pregnant by rape or incest in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin cannot get an abortion.

And that books by Nobel Prize-winning authors are banned in many red states (and by some red local governments in blue states).

And that republicans raced to ban the teaching of critical race theory -- which was not being taught anywhere in America in K-12 classes -- and don't want students to know that Rosa Parks was black.

But guns being more reasonably regulated (and no, no one here is going to suggest surprise gun checks)?

Nope.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0...