I thought/felt that but it is the narrative from some quarters.
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70-90% of guns recovered by Mexican law enforcement are American made, with estimates of over half a million a year making their way over.
got to have a return load for those smugglers bringing drugs north 
The whole Afrikaner identity was built on something similar and there was a distinct effort to entrench that view and the inherent superiority that it entails which was a contributing factor to Apartheid. I had the displeasure of coming face to face with it during my high schooling which occurred just after '94. My school was almost exclusively populated by Afrikaans teenagers who were born and brought up to believe in Apartheid and their God given right to the land and everything and everyone in it.
I also then came face to face with it once again when I managed to get seriously involved with an Afrikaans girl a decade later. Her ultra religious family ensured that we were doomed and the effort to draw her back in became almost like a brainwashing… Gereformeerde Kerk, ‘Reformed Church’. A doctrine nowhere even close to what Christ is supposed to have preached. If the religious right in America is anything similar and if someone can get them on their side, no matter what, then it’s a pointless exercise. They cannot be reasoned with or swayed, logic does not matter or make sense to them. Their own belief system supercedes everything.
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‘We don’t want to fix school shootings.’
‘we will arm everyone so that they are all scared shitless of being shot 1st, like this they will all shoot each other. We will be safe in Congress where guns aren’t allowed!’
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The comment by the congressman, “We’re not going to fix it” might offer a glimmer of hope, if we dig deeper.
A Tennessee Republican just admitted, at least, there is something that is broken and needs to be fixed.
I’m not hopeful, but that baseline might give rise to secondary questions as to who is going to fix it, or how might it be fixed, or if not fixed, then improved. At the least that has to be the target.
At face value it is a defeatist and appalling thing for a politician to say, especially as it is his state where the latest mass school shooting just took place.
If he is framing the problem along the lines of “bad people do bad things” so how can you completely stop that, then there is a point there somewhere. But not enough of a point that you shrug your shoulders and say, as an elected official, “whaddayagonnado?”
The key is to reduce this sort of thing, and makes strides in that direction.
There are several helpful measures that could be taken, that have the broad support of the public on both sides of the aisle. Start there.
And yet
The only question in whether this would pass was whether the GOP supporters of open carry would vote it down for this bill not going far enough to expand gun rights.
Relevant comment here
https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/1640892319355240450?s=20
OK let’s just allow Florida to turn into the lawless hell-scape it can be. Rename it War-ida and you feel the need to go and shoot someone then go to War-ida and leave the rest of us alone.
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Dunno mate, that sounds like when Trump apologists say “oh don’t take him at face value, he doesn’t mean what he says, it’s mostly hyperbole”
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You are probably right. There’s not a lot of will to try to solve the problem, especially on the Republican side.
How it started
How it’s going
If the agreement is deemed to violate rules against perpetuity, it will be in effect until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of England’s King Charles III, the declaration said.
LOL
It’s good to hear that Disney isn’t just rolling over. I would imagine that Disney will still be going strong long after DeSantis. Mind you, in the shorter term, if the legal battle goes up to the Supreme Court, it has been stacked in a certain direction.
Ouch … Jim Jordan gets called out in his own hearing into weaponisation of the government … for protecting Trump !
Disney are the most ruthlessly competent group you can imagine when it comes to anything lawyerly. Locally no one expected anything other than them making a known incompetent administration look like twats (he has spent millions of tax payer $s hiring high priced external law firms to lose in court over measures he has publicly declared he would pursue that were unconstitutional)
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