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“People want a quick solution; the long term solution here is to address the mental health issue,” Gov Greg Abbott on Fox deflecting against any notion of commonsense gun laws that the majority of Americans want. He also attempts to make it seem as though California, a state w/gun... show more

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Christopher Webbvor 3 Jahren

FACT: Where there are more guns, there are more gun deaths.

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Christopher Webbvor 3 Jahren

Californians are around 25 percent less likely to die in a mass shooting. Still too many!

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Leiavor 3 Jahren

.@GregAbbott_TX - them why did you slash $211 million from the department that oversees mental health programs last month? And why then do you not require background checks? And why did you sign a bill allowing permitless carry in Texas? You're doing a terrible job of keeping guns away from people who shouldn't have them.

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Amanda Jo 💙vor 3 Jahren

@morgfair Did they bother to ask him how much funding for mental health services was cut from the current budget or nah?

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Apocalyptic Apoplectic Apothecaryvor 3 Jahren

Texas is dead last in the country for mental health services funding. Guess who keeps voting against it?

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Janice Houghvor 3 Jahren

Pew Research Center

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Agolf Twitler Slayervor 3 Jahren

Yeah, Greg, They buy guns in Texas and drive to California! It's not rocket science! #GunReformNOW

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Cash Petersvor 3 Jahren

@cooperchip1 It would probably help if, every time a politician offered his or her opinion on gun violence, the news show posted on-screen how much that person received in donations from the gun lobby. Then we can assess how authentic their statements are.

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EARiemanvor 3 Jahren

Did he forget Uvalde(22) vs CA(11)Oh, that was last year. Note he frames the issue as blue/red in a game of deadly numbers. Horse racing as we know it should be abolished.

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DepressedBergman

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Mario Nawfal

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$As requested, I'm posting the whole video, which makes it even look worse. ➤ He compares guns to cars. False equivalence. Cars are built for transport. Guns are built to injure or kill. Car deaths fell sharply because of regulation and engineering. He argues to tolerate gun deaths instead of regulating to reduce them. ➤ He sets up a straw man: “you’ll never get gun deaths to zero.” Nobody claims zero. Other rich countries got firearm-homicide rates down to tiny fractions of the U.S. using basic laws. Latest UNODC/OWID data show Western Europe around ~0.1–0.3 per 100k, with Sweden an outlier ~0.4 per 100k; the U.S. is ~4.4 per 100k. That’s an order of magnitude gap. ➤ Country snapshots (firearm homicide, per 100k, latest 2021–2023 window): • UK: typically ~0.02–0.07 • Germany: ~0.05–0.10 • France: ~0.20–0.35 • Italy: ~0.20–0.40 • Spain: ~0.05–0.10 • Netherlands: ~0.15–0.30 • Poland: ~0.05–0.10 • Sweden: ~0.35–0.45; Europe avg ≈ 0.16 per 100k. U.S.: ≈ 4.4. ➤ His core line wasn’t “out of context.” It is the context: “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment… That is a prudent deal.” He is explicitly pricing in dead civilians as acceptable. ➤ “Guns protect against tyranny” collapses under law and force. The president can deploy federal troops and federalize the Guard under the Insurrection Act. That is the explicit statutory exception to Posse Comitatus. Rifles in civilian hands do nothing against armored units, ISR drones, electronic surveillance, and lawful military deployment. This is not theory; it’s black-letter authority and modern capability. ➤ Practical reality: a semi-auto rifle can’t contest air assets, armored vehicles, signals intelligence, or coordinated urban operations. Modern doctrine and tools end such resistance quickly. RAND and U.S. Army War College analyses document how sensors, drones, armor, and comms make small-arms resistance futile against a modern force. ➤ Translation: the long clip makes him look worse because it shows a considered position, not a slip. He equates public-health regulation with tolerating preventable deaths, waves away working policies other countries use, and sells a fantasy about “tyranny” that modern law and military reality render void.$

As requested, I'm posting the whole video, which makes it even look worse. ➤ He compares guns to cars. False equivalence. Cars are built for transport. Guns are built to injure or kill. Car deaths fell sharply because of regulation and engineering. He argues to tolerate gun deaths instead of regulating to reduce them. ➤ He sets up a straw man: “you’ll never get gun deaths to zero.” Nobody claims zero. Other rich countries got firearm-homicide rates down to tiny fractions of the U.S. using basic laws. Latest UNODC/OWID data show Western Europe around ~0.1–0.3 per 100k, with Sweden an outlier ~0.4 per 100k; the U.S. is ~4.4 per 100k. That’s an order of magnitude gap. ➤ Country snapshots (firearm homicide, per 100k, latest 2021–2023 window): • UK: typically ~0.02–0.07 • Germany: ~0.05–0.10 • France: ~0.20–0.35 • Italy: ~0.20–0.40 • Spain: ~0.05–0.10 • Netherlands: ~0.15–0.30 • Poland: ~0.05–0.10 • Sweden: ~0.35–0.45; Europe avg ≈ 0.16 per 100k. U.S.: ≈ 4.4. ➤ His core line wasn’t “out of context.” It is the context: “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment… That is a prudent deal.” He is explicitly pricing in dead civilians as acceptable. ➤ “Guns protect against tyranny” collapses under law and force. The president can deploy federal troops and federalize the Guard under the Insurrection Act. That is the explicit statutory exception to Posse Comitatus. Rifles in civilian hands do nothing against armored units, ISR drones, electronic surveillance, and lawful military deployment. This is not theory; it’s black-letter authority and modern capability. ➤ Practical reality: a semi-auto rifle can’t contest air assets, armored vehicles, signals intelligence, or coordinated urban operations. Modern doctrine and tools end such resistance quickly. RAND and U.S. Army War College analyses document how sensors, drones, armor, and comms make small-arms resistance futile against a modern force. ➤ Translation: the long clip makes him look worse because it shows a considered position, not a slip. He equates public-health regulation with tolerating preventable deaths, waves away working policies other countries use, and sells a fantasy about “tyranny” that modern law and military reality render void.

Pete

20,579 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten

Legal gun owners who follow the Constitution are not the problem. They are not the cause of strife, and they commit crime at negligible rates. Yet they are targeted by laws that do not stop criminals and do not bring peace. "Roughly 16 million people carry on a regular rate in America. And they commit crimes at 1/3 the rate of other Americans, people who don't carry." "Not just for gun crimes... but also on a regular basis, not arrested for other means such as assault." - Dudley Brown

Legal gun owners who follow the Constitution are not the problem. They are not the cause of strife, and they commit crime at negligible rates. Yet they are targeted by laws that do not stop criminals and do not bring peace. "Roughly 16 million people carry on a regular rate in America. And they commit crimes at 1/3 the rate of other Americans, people who don't carry." "Not just for gun crimes... but also on a regular basis, not arrested for other means such as assault." - Dudley Brown

National Association for Gun Rights

69,083 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

BREAKING: Greg Bovino blatantly tries to create a bogus narrative over ICE's murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota today. He seemingly claims that because Pretti had a gun in his waist-ban (legally), it can be assumed that he wanted to "massacre law enforcement," and that gave ICE a right to shoot and kill him. Where are all of the Pro-Second Amendment people? You've gone from being against creating larger restrictions for guns to suddenly cheering on as law-enforcement kills somebody merely for legally owning a gun? It's clear as day in the videos that the officer took the gun from Pretti before he was shot multiple times and killed. This is murder!

BREAKING: Greg Bovino blatantly tries to create a bogus narrative over ICE's murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota today. He seemingly claims that because Pretti had a gun in his waist-ban (legally), it can be assumed that he wanted to "massacre law enforcement," and that gave ICE a right to shoot and kill him. Where are all of the Pro-Second Amendment people? You've gone from being against creating larger restrictions for guns to suddenly cheering on as law-enforcement kills somebody merely for legally owning a gun? It's clear as day in the videos that the officer took the gun from Pretti before he was shot multiple times and killed. This is murder!

Ed Krassenstein

841,797 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Young conservative woman picks apart MSNBC contributor’s claim that more guns = more gun violence TIM MILLER: “I think it’s basically the guns.” WOMAN: “First of all… almost 50% of all homicides caused by guns are in cities where the gun per capita is much lower.” “Secondly, I’d like to bring up that from the 1990s to the early 2000s, we had a major decrease in homicides by guns, but we had an increase of guns by nearly 50%.” MILLER: “We had an assault weapons ban during that time.” “The pro-gun side in this country is always trying to cut and dissect the demographics down… The only reason you can do that kind of statistics is that we have so many fricking gun deaths in this country.” “I don’t know why we have to come up with other convoluted reasons why we have all these deaths in this country.” WOMAN: “First of all, I think that fatherless homes is a big part of it… 76% of people who commit violent acts come from fatherless homes.” “Additionally, I think a second problem that we have is releasing criminals back into the street. It’s our criminal justice system.” “The majority, 76% of people who cause violent crimes in the United States have a criminal record of some sort.” “So we need to stop releasing people back to the streets.” TIM MILLER: “I agree.”

Young conservative woman picks apart MSNBC contributor’s claim that more guns = more gun violence TIM MILLER: “I think it’s basically the guns.” WOMAN: “First of all… almost 50% of all homicides caused by guns are in cities where the gun per capita is much lower.” “Secondly, I’d like to bring up that from the 1990s to the early 2000s, we had a major decrease in homicides by guns, but we had an increase of guns by nearly 50%.” MILLER: “We had an assault weapons ban during that time.” “The pro-gun side in this country is always trying to cut and dissect the demographics down… The only reason you can do that kind of statistics is that we have so many fricking gun deaths in this country.” “I don’t know why we have to come up with other convoluted reasons why we have all these deaths in this country.” WOMAN: “First of all, I think that fatherless homes is a big part of it… 76% of people who commit violent acts come from fatherless homes.” “Additionally, I think a second problem that we have is releasing criminals back into the street. It’s our criminal justice system.” “The majority, 76% of people who cause violent crimes in the United States have a criminal record of some sort.” “So we need to stop releasing people back to the streets.” TIM MILLER: “I agree.”

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

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When Republicans think Trans Americans are a bigger threat than AR-15's the world laughs: "It's not a gun problem, it's a mental health problem." That's something we hear after every recent mass shooting, and although I agree that mental health plays a role in many of these shootings, the "mental health" excuse is also a phrase that republicans use so that they can shift attention from the obvious gun problem in America I've probably heard the phrase uttered 10-15 times by Republican politicians already regarding the Nashville school shooting. On the surface that's not a problem, but when you digest the facts it IS! In September of 2022, 5 months after the Uvalde, Texas shooting, Congress put forth a bill called the Mental Health Matters Act, which expanded school mental health services. ALL 219 Democrats voted FOR it, out of 206 Republicans in the House, only 1 voted for it. NEVER stop calling these people out for their hypocrisy! I won't, even if Republicans make lies up about me to try and tell me that my voice is squeaky.

When Republicans think Trans Americans are a bigger threat than AR-15's the world laughs: "It's not a gun problem, it's a mental health problem." That's something we hear after every recent mass shooting, and although I agree that mental health plays a role in many of these shootings, the "mental health" excuse is also a phrase that republicans use so that they can shift attention from the obvious gun problem in America I've probably heard the phrase uttered 10-15 times by Republican politicians already regarding the Nashville school shooting. On the surface that's not a problem, but when you digest the facts it IS! In September of 2022, 5 months after the Uvalde, Texas shooting, Congress put forth a bill called the Mental Health Matters Act, which expanded school mental health services. ALL 219 Democrats voted FOR it, out of 206 Republicans in the House, only 1 voted for it. NEVER stop calling these people out for their hypocrisy! I won't, even if Republicans make lies up about me to try and tell me that my voice is squeaky.

Brian Krassenstein

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