malnutrition deaths after ending vaccines and SNAP. (predicted headline, somewhere)...

After the first grade class was torn apart by an AR15 in Sandy Hook, that the NRA has an absolute stranglehold on this country.

Most gunowners aren't even members...

It's all about the money shoveled through the NRA from foreign sources. Just like AIPAC has a stranglehold on the politicians they own.

when Maria Butina was honey-potting her way through the male KGOP, funneling NRA money, while holding giant weapons and pretending Russia had a second amendment.




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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/how-the-gop-gave-maria-butina-her-ultimate-cover?srsltid=AfmBOoq1itEduVYm3kb8io3TpGsY2mrNsGKnoBBsofcf-YUhM51S9c-f

Butina was convicted of being a covert Russian agent and was deported from the US after serving a prison sentence, then was given a job harassing Alexei Navalny who was imprisoned in Russia by cowardly Putin who was terrified of Navalny.

Until Putin murdered him.

Here's another do-nothing Dem and a link to everything she hasn't done:

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against the NRA, history:

https://giffords.org/stories/nra-in-disarray-what-you-need-to-know-blog/#:~:text=In%20February%202024%2C%20a%20Manhattan,The%20Trace%2C%20AP%5D

After looking this up and remembering it all, I am completely overwhelmed by all the bullshit that traitor and his cult have put us through, with no end in sight!!

the nra (around 60 million, if I remember correctly), I remember "The Ballad of Maria Butina" by Sandy and Richard Riccardi.

#1 cause of death in the US in 2025 is Trump

After writing that title, I thought "No, a lot are caused by children accessing unlocked/unsecured firearms."

But then I said to myself "And most unlocked/unsecured firearms are owned by men."

Signing off as a very sad man.

Like the horrific incidents of children being locked in cars in devastating heat--both genders can be irresponsible, self-obsessed cretins. Still, yes, there does appear to be a particularly prevalent problem among men.

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Well this one is true. More than car accidents since 2019. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10042524/

Cars don't kill people. People kill people!

That's why we don't have mandatory insurance on cars, driver training, licensing, safety seats, roll bars, vehicle safety regulations, seat belts, safety glass...

Oh, wait.

All mandated by congress.

A ½-ounce bottle of my nasal decongestant has more safety features than most handguns.

belief that only men and their needs, wants, and desires matter, that children, and women, are nothing but chattel, commodities, things that exist only as far as they are useful to men, easily replaceable, and certainly not actual human beings deserving of life. Children and women die by gun? Too bad. Our right to these hand-held phallic extensions is FAR more important to our fragile little egos.

And before anybody starts in about how many women have guns, I will remind everyone who is in charge of most corporations, and our various levels of government. Again, skip the "but some women. .." deflection. We know the pitiful numbers.

is the number-one cause of death, period.

How many wars have been started by women? What ratio of women to men have been murderers? What percentage of women have been murderers?

Et cetera.

It's kind of a meta way of looking at it, but it's also undeniably true.

to not be incorrect.

When white men's lives are the only thing deemed to have value, then the lives of black and minority people are also diminished. Just compare the numbers of of black-versus-white when the subject is capital punishment and death row prisoners. A vast majority of death sentences are carried out on black criminals, while white (male) criminals are more likely to receive mitigated sentences. It's not that white people are committing fewer crimes, it's that they are convicted but receive lighter sentences than the black convicts.

Yes the patriarchy as you describe it controls most of the wealth and political power even now ... in the 21st Century. Most men can't see the problem with it, and that's why things will never change in my lifetime.

CDC found out decades ago that if a fire arm was in the house the risk of being killed was around 70%. The NRA and republicans put a muzzle on the data.

Mean that 70% of homes with firearms have a death from said firearms. That statistically does not work.

Probably more likely. House without, 1.00. house with, 1.75. Or something like that.

on probability and statistics, have you? That isn't how the math works.

Covid, measles, chicken pox, german measles etc.

Is it too early to talk about gun violence yet?

Personally, as a southern Democrat, I am sick of losing because of it.

Most reports say 3 measles deaths in 2024.

Yrs ago, I worked at a children’s hospital in Albuquerque (Carrie Tingley) - a six yr old girl came in paralyzed - shot by her sister. Mom & Dad had no guns in house. A friend of the dad’s hid his gun above the doorway & the 3 kids saw him do it. Parents were not aware there was a gun in the house. Luckily, after months in the hospital & lots of therapy she was able to walk with a limp but one arm remained totally paralyzed. The sister who shot her was a few yrs older and had to go for intensive therapy.

There were 450 deaths per year from measles.

In the 64 -65 outbreak of German measles
1964 to 1965, an estimated 12.5 million people got rubella, 11,000 pregnant women lost their babies, 2,100 newborns died, and 20,000 babies were born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS).

My concern is that the deamonization of preventative vaccines may cause a rise in kid's deaths as more kids are not vaccinated
Right now, that thankfully is not the case.

I had a 1st grader almost shoot off his thumb playing with his father's unsecured gun.
His younger brother, in the same room, was not hurt

Some end up paralyzed or severely injured.

My good friend’s toddler was killed many yrs ago - by a neighbor’s young child who found his dad’s gun. In was in a very rural NM community.

I can still see how heavy it weighs on her husband , It was her first son and she went on to have two more children - one is now a top correspondent for NYT’s. What would her first child gone on to accomplish?

At the time, her toddler was a little older than my baby. I still want to cry when I remember it. She died a few months ago so it’s been fresh in my mind.

n/t

So let's arm all children! magnums, elephant guns, ak-47s, ar-15s!

Then they'll surely be safe!

More guns = more gun violence and bloodshed.

so long as Americans love their guns more than they love their children.

I was recently told on DU that I am too emotional about guns to engage in a reasoned discussion of the issue. Let the flaming resume.

They would be pitiable if they were not so dangerous.

Since the majority of those refusing to enact reasonable laws and restrictions on possession of guns are REPUBLICANS.

Guns don't kill, people protected by Republicans, kill.

He seems to be actively trying for first place.

He's one that should never be in possession of a firearm

If there's a gun in the home friends and family are much less safe. Guns in the home mean a much higher suicide rate. Guns in the home lead a much higher death by accidental discharge rate (e.g. kids playing with guns). Guns in the home mean greatly increased rates of intentional discharge at unintended targets (e.g. accidentally shooting a family member or friend thinking they were a bad guy). Guns in the home mean greatly elevated chances of domestic disputes going terribly wrong.

What gun in the home don't do in actually decrease the rate of victimization by 3rd party bad guys.

https://time.com/6183881/gun-ownership-risks-at-home/

Then there's the fact that guns in the home actually make your home a target. Thieves love to steal guns as they're easy to transport and easy to sell on the black market.

1) I am not mentally unstable, nor it anyone in my house, so suicide is not an issue...A person can walk in front of a train if they are so inclined.

2) No kids, no grandkids, so, no kids in the house ever...

3) No unintentional discharges. I am a former range officer

4) No domestic disputes...been married for 24 years.

As to "third parties" entering my house with intent to do me or my wife harm or steal anything from my home, I wouldn't advise it.

But only when used properly by someone qualified in their use and level-headed.

So, rarely.

What gun nuts refer to as "defensive gun use" typically goes something like this:

herd a noize out back got my glok and wint to look, dint fine nothin so i proly skeered it of i chok it up as an dgu

Sure there are responsible gun owners. But here's the problem. The USA because of its permissive gun laws is now SATURATED with weapons that can cause instantaneous death and maiming.

Period. No probation or plea bargains.

And Memphis, and Philly, Boston, Detroit, DC, LA, SF and on and on....Remember, guns are already highly illegal in those cities.

...pains me to say this, but guns is another issue we've been kicking around for decades but haven't been able to do much about...

...you'd think with all these senseless daily gun deaths we would have made more progress by now in controlling firearms...

...shameful...

run for office.

a hellhole with dangerous crimes everywhere so women go for assholes instead of nice guys when they marry (it's science) thus they marry Republicans. Same thing with poverty: make poverty grow and middle class and upper middle class will feel their children could fall into poverty when they grow up so what is left of the middle class and upper middle class get mean and nasty and stop voting Democratic because they now have to hoard money and don't want to pay taxes (see Mexico). Financial stress, by doing things like increasing the cost of University and not forgiving student loans, also makes the people who suffer from it to not vote with reason, but with passion (so they vote on sexism, racism, homophobia instead of their economic best interests - it's science).

and the number one cause of death for children will be working long hours in factories.

Is idiot parents.

What do these idiot parents do that causes or leads to children's deaths?

We know some of them, such as beating their young children or leaving loaded guns where kids can get their hands on them. But those don't add up to the no. 1 killer unless there's a lot more than I know about.

Afterthought: Idiot parents are likely to raise idiot kids, whose own idiocy could get them killed.

"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"

And yes--passing on the idiot genes.

And yes--passing on the idiot genes.

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Not official U.S. policy, but it may as well be over the past 40 years. Some nations choose butter, we choose guns.