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Guns Everywhere: The Supreme Court’s Vision

Posted on July 4, 2023 | Leave a comment

There is no safe place in America. This July 4th weekend up to the morning of the fourth, 15 people died. This year between January and May 13,900 people died in gun violence.

“There have been more than 550 mass killings since 2006, according to the AP/US Today database, in which at least 2,900 people have died and at least 2,000 people have been injured.”

Among those events have been shootings at schools, concerts, graduations, super markets, movie theaters, parades, restaurants, night clubs, etc, etc, etc,

The mass shooting numbers don’t include the now legal category of people shooting others because they thought they were being threatened. The other person could be unarmed, without intent to cause harm or threaten but because the shooter felt he was being threatened there was a chance for acquittal of all charges.

You may recall Travon Martin the youth going home from a local store in Florida who was chased and abused by a man following him. When he faced the man and acted to force the guy to stop his abuse, he was shot and the man later cleared of all charges. Legalized murder,

No one is safe.

Medicynical Note: And in all, our erudite scholarly originalist dominated Supreme Court benignly approves of guns everywhere for everyone—except of course the demonstrators near their home. Somehow believing this was what the founders had in mind. And our pathetic congress remains it’s ineffective self, benignly looking elsewhere in hopes of being non-controversial. Not wanting to offend the gun lobby.

We’ve failed.

Every day or two in America another mass killing.

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Groundhog Day— Again and Again and Again

Posted on May 17, 2023 | Leave a comment

Medicynical Note: Anyone think this is what the founders had in mind? The compromised Republican conservative Supreme Court justices apparently do.

These justices sit at home under police protection from demonstrators. Because the demonstrators have access all manner of weapons…… a situation that the court itself facilitated.

Ironic? Or just pathetic?

This is the sad confluence of guns everywhere, Texas, and the Supreme Court’s abortion decision.

Tagged Guns, mass shooting

Only in America—

Posted on May 15, 2023 | Leave a comment

A violent man. This woman had previously “reiterated that she is scared of the suspect because he had made threats to harm her family and her children,” according to the affidavit”

Medicynical Note: Who knows why the existential anger. She was going to have to bear responsibility for the pregnancy. How many children did she previously have? We’re there complications from previous pregnancies? Could she manage the complications of parenthood and a continuing relationship with an obviously deranged angry man? Was this the consequences of rape? Texas obviously doesn’t care. And it’s really none of our business but thanks to the Supreme Court and the Texas legislature………… it’s murder.

And the conservative members of the Supreme Court sit above it all accepting payments from supporters and at times ignoring conflicts of interest with their “donor’s” interests. (dear personal friends, of course). They demand protection at their homes because of demonstrators who might possibly be legally carrying guns that they have made available to everyone everywhere. America’s murderous “freedom.”

Tagged abortion, Guns, Healthcare

Legalizing Murder….. it’s Texas

Posted on May 10, 2023 | Leave a comment

An army sergeant, working as an Uber driver, shot a man who carrying a rifle. The driver claimed he felt threatened and said the guy lifted his rifle. A claim denied by other witnesses.

During the trial “Prosecutors presented some of Perry’s messages and social media comments in the weeks before. Among them: “I might have to kill a few people on my way to work, they are rioting outside my apartment complex” and “I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.””

He was convicted by a unanimous vedict. But Governor Abbot thinks he knows better.

Medicynical Note: In America a once “conservative” political faction has legalized murder…… Texas again.

Tagged Guns, legalized murder

Again….and Again…..and….. Again…. and…. Again

Posted on May 10, 2023 | Leave a comment

Medicynical note: America leads the world in murders.

We used to lead the world in innovation, education, and technology. We did have an original-sin problem with racism, but we seemed to be addressing it for a while.

Now we have racists on TV and maybe Twitter. Now we have more guns/capita than anywhere in the world. And now we have more gun deaths, mass shootings, school shootings, gun murders, accidental shootings, gun suicides, shootings of innocents by police and police getting shot etc, etc, etc. America today.

And the Republican Party and Supreme Court and some Democrats, the people who made it all possible. Sit mute. Some hiding from people who might be near their homes legally carrying the weapons that they have made it so so easy to own.

Irony doesn’t exist in America

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Groundhog Day in America.…. Guns Everywhere for everyone, what could possibly go wrong?

Posted on April 30, 2023 | Leave a comment

Only in America, almost every day. Again.

And again.

And again.

Medicynical Note: A lovely Sunday in America. We lead the world in mass shootings, school shootings, accidental gun deaths, gun suicides, gun murders, police shootings, police getting shot, house party shootings, neighbor shootings and shootings of classmates and friends. The living hell of America in the 21st Century.

And the folks who made it all possible, the Alito led conservative Republican appointees on the Supreme Court sit at home afraid that innocent demonstrators near their homes might possibly be legally carrying a gun. Kind of pathetic.

And as in “Groundhog Day” it will happen again and again and again until we get it right.

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Ground Hog Day: Again and Again and Again and Again……. Only in America

Posted on April 19, 2023 | Leave a comment

According to the Supreme Court murder and mayhem were the founders desire. This happens again and again and again only in the United States of America. Every other industrialized country seems to understand that it’s not the doors or mental health or high criminality or not enough hopes and prayers. It’s the guns and everyone knows it

Medicynical Note: Families devastated, lives lost and the Republican Party is concerned only with voiding any limit to gun ownership. Every day again and again and again until we get it right.

The murder abetting Republican dominated Conservative Supreme Court sits above it all with some members in hiding because someone near their homes might be legally carrying a weapon or because of their own personal, open for all to see, corruption (yes Justice Thomas, you). They blame it all on the slave owning founders. Amazing what has become of the once civil society of America.

Tagged American capitalism, Greed, Guns

“Ground Hog Day” Again : Kentucky Bank Shooting

Posted on April 11, 2023 | Leave a comment

It will happen again and again and again. I’m beginning to feel like the guy in Groundhog Day. Every day, no matter how they find to excuse it—mental health system, police delays, no metal detectors, open doors, thoughts and prayers — it happens again.

Medicynical Note: Another shooting. A “legally” purchased AR-15 obtained four days earlier by a soon to be fired bank employee. It took one minute to kill 5 people. Also shot in the event were two police. One, a new police recruit, with a life threatening injury.

Kentucky is a state with few limits on gun purchases and open carry. It’s as if they want to facilitate the slaughter. The police, always respond, most times heroically but almost always too late. A front line group the police for some inexplicable reason continue to support guns everywhere for everyone. An insane mind set, but then it’s 21st century America where daily public killings are deemed necessary for “freedom.”

Our conservative Supreme Court members made it all possible following the vague notion of originalism. They seem too busy to concern themselves with the collateral damage and are off on luxury trips around the world with “personal” friends or hiding at home fearful of………. guns.

Tagged gun deaths, Guns

Guns: The Uniquely American Horror Story

Posted on March 27, 2023 | Leave a comment

The inevitable always happens. This time at a church school in Tennessee. God’s will? American perfidy? Stupidity? Or simply an insane not-so-Supreme Court.

Medicynical Note: Again and again and again. And we call this “freedom.”