The next time you hear a Republican say #WalkUpNotOut and try to tell people that gun violence could be avoided if only the victims were nicer to the racist loner who shot them, please remember how mean and ugly Republicans are being to the teenage survivors of a mass shooting.

Republicans do not care about the victims of gun violence. Republicans mock and harass poor people, Black people, LGBTQ people, immigrants, disabled people, Native Americans, women, Muslims, Jewish people, and any intersection of those marginalized groups. Now we can add “teen survivors of mass school shooting” to the list. Republicans are the poster child for bullying people.

Please vote in the 2018 midterm elections. Kick out all Republicans.

Anti-Semitic fliers blame US Jewish lawmakers for gun control

littlegoythings:

Fliers posted on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota blamed Jewish politicians for gun control efforts.

Headlined “Why Are Jews After Our Guns,” the fliers blamed Jewish politicians for attacks on “our beloved 2nd Amendment,” the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.

The fliers listed Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and other prominent Jewish politicians. It also showed images of the yellow stars that Jews were forced to wear in the Nazi concentration camps as well as caricatures of hook-nosed men with long beards.

The fliers said they were “brought to you” by the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.

socialistfoto:

marsincharge:

marsincharge:

Those poor Parkland teenagers are figureheads for a bunch of gun control orgs whose ‘politics’ and language surrounding mental health is drenched in ableism and based on armchair diagnosing murderers. This was inspiring for maybe to weeks total and now I’m just distrustful and jaded again.

Oh and I just saw the video where they have these kids talmbout how assault weapons should only be used by the military and the police so That’s Definitely Over for me. That movement is dead, they’re not getting more of my time because as “intersectional” as this thing is on the surface level, them stanning the police and being a-okay with gun violence against innocent victims of the American military let’s me know this is just repackaged rhetoric I’ve heard before.

i agree the politics is garbage but 1. theyre high school students and they don’t know better (oversimplified obviously but i’m not gonna go into it) but 2. this movement is being hijacked by the democratic party. their demands and rhetoric and shaped entirely by the democratic party who have already invested millions of dollars into PR and campaigns around gun control. it is NOT entirely the parkland teens and to direct your anger and frustration about gun violence at these teens is foolish. their platform is co-opted by the democratic establishment. all progressive movements that are popping off now are and will continue to be hijacked and bastardized by the democratic establishment. don’t talk about these students lack of politics without first reprimanding the media’s role in criminalizing black folks first when black people been organizing around gun violence in communities every damn day. the media that criminalizes black victims of shootings. the same media that gave a platform to trump and white nationalists. there are so many people and communities around this country that are ORGANIZING against violence and all other issues that stem from this. you talk about armchair diagnosis but what are you doing besides complaining on the internet? take this opportunity to look into what organizers are doing and saying about gun violence and push that agenda into the work you do. being jaded is useless honestly and really does nothing but allow the neoliberal rhetoric to run its course. i’m not jaded, i’m inspired and i’m gonna continue to push the radical anti gun violence messaging that i believe in and use this opportunity to change the hijacked rhetoric of gun control. the democratic party and republican party and the NRA go hand in hand when their agenda is military spending and militarization of the police forces in this country.

here’s a good socialist analysis on gun control for starters: https://www.liberationnews.org/united-states-violence-socialist-approach-student-walkouts-gun-control/

now is not the time to be frustrated against high school students, it is this entire system that is to blame and instead of wasting your time being jaded, organize your community and shift the focus away from that horseshit politics that the media is happily supporting.

kpdawes:

a quick cartoon i did about THE NOT AT ALL INSANE IDEA of arming American teachers

jennyslateswife:

butchwookiee:

tanoraqui:

returnofismasm:

tanoraqui:

profeminist:

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I am genuinely unclear on why a school shooting victim would relevant to the business of the Centers for Disease Control

@tanoraqui There is a law that prevents the CDC from studying gun violence. It’s the NRA’s fault, like so many things, they keep blocking attempts to get the law repealed.

Oh! Thank you.

uhhhh yikes?? how is comparing school shootings to the (ONGOING) aids crisis at all appropriate & also why use “herstory” when talking about the activism of david wojnarowicz & other gay men, like??? what does this even mean?

Jesus fucking christ. It’s government sanctioned large scale murder in the interests of lobbyists and nationalism over those of the innocent. Both FDA and CDC are culpable in denying vulnerable groups valuable research that could be used to SAVE LIVES.

The reference to “herstory” is a cheeky reference to how gay men may call each other she/her. The person calling it “herstory” is a literal, actual gay man.

And if you actually listened to ACT UP alumni, you’d know they’re fine with it.

This kinda instinctive outrage to kids HONORING and continuing the legacy of gay protests by keeping the memory alive KNOWING how often it has been erased is understandable but I really think people need to take a step back and think about why it pisses them off.

How is calling back to LGBT history and reminding the US Government that they still haven’t even washed the blood on their hands from the AIDS Crisis as their palms fill up with the blood of kids (and Latino/Black LGBT people from the Pulse Shooting) a bad thing? How are KIDS knowing LGBT history when most adults don’t fucking it a bad thing?

I know your intentions are good but I’m kinda wondering what you think your outrage will accomplish besides isolating LGBT history from current events and leaving it a sort of contextless void in our general national history.

marsincharge:

Black kids in Atlanta got put on lockdown so they couldn’t leave school during the #NationalWalkoutDay and what did they do? THEY KNEELED. They were barred from the same sort of freedom to exercise their rights that students in other places across the country have and they FOUND A WAY. Black Youth are always finding a way.

invalleumbraemortis:

dakotaaaa:

there are some dystopian ideas coming from the White House lately

Lord

How Defective Guns Became the Only Product That Can’t Be Recalled

rubyvroom:

Here’s how much gun safety matters in America:

no government entity has the power to police defective firearms or ammunition in America—or even force gunmakers to warn consumers. The Consumer Product Safety Commission can order the recall and repair of thousands of things, from toasters to teddy bears. If a defective car needs fixing, the U.S. Department of Transportation can make it happen. The Food and Drug Administration deals with food, drugs, and cosmetics. Only one product is beyond the government’s reach when it comes to defects and safety: firearms. Not even the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives can get defective guns off the market. If a gunmaker chooses to ignore a safety concern, there’s no one to stop it.

To understand how firearms makers escaped government oversight of the safety of their pistols, revolvers, and rifles, you need to go back to 1972, when Congress created the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Four years earlier, President Lyndon B. Johnson had signed the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, which regulated several aspects of firearm sales, and advocates of gun control hoped to give this new agency oversight of defective weapons. Representative John Dingell, a Democrat from Michigan and a hunter with an A-plus rating from the ascendant NRA, blocked them. In 1975 he did it again, when a colleague introduced a bill making a second run at giving the CPSC firearms authority. “We put in there an express prohibition against them getting their nose into the business of regulating firearms and ammunition,” Dingell said in debate in Congress. That second bill was crushed, 339-80, and the issue has never been seriously considered again.

How bad are Taurus guns? Read the article for depictions of:

guns firing with the safety on

guns firing while holstered

guns firing while holstered with the safety on

guns firing when dropped

guns fucking exploding into pieces and destroying someone’s hand

Here’s a video of a Taurus handgun firing just by being shaken, no finger on the trigger

A car with this many safety flaws would be banned immediately, but these guns are still sold in the US today, because of the overpowered Gun Lobby.

How Defective Guns Became the Only Product That Can’t Be Recalled

lighthouxe:

@teens and kids that are being bullied for speaking out:

each one of you is my hero.

i see you. i hear you. i’m standing with you.

don’t be discouraged. don’t let them silence you.

Hi! Probably a stupid question because I don’t know a lot about US law, but why isn’t anyone considering a class action suit against gun manufacturers or something? Isn’t selling powerful weapons to untrained and unstable people like encouraging a blind person to buy and drive a car? Or selling dangerous medication to small children? Or something? To me it’s weird that you can sue because your hot coffee is hot, and yet the gun industry gets away with this continuous slaughter.

plaidadder:

plaidadder:

Because in 2005, shortly after George W. Bush’s reelection, Congress passed a law to protect gun manufacturers from class action lawsuits.

After Las Vegas, This Law Protects Gun Manufacturers

Class action lawsuits had some success in the 1980s and 1990s, so the gun lobby got Congress to pass this fucking thing.

It may also surprise you to know that the CDC is prevented, by another gun-lobby inspired law, from collecting information on gun violence and tracking it as it would any other epidemic.

Congress also passed an assault weapons ban in 1994. It expired in 2004. Congress has not tried to pass another.

This should give our international members some idea of the extent of the problem. This situation didn’t just happen. The gun industry has spent a lot of money protecting itself, and the NRA has spent a lot of money persuading American citizens that what’s good for the gun industry is good for them.

I find I have one more thing to say about this.

The reason we don’t regulate guns is that we don’t regulate capitalism.

This comes down to money in the end. The gun industry is behaving no differently from any other industry or corporation: it’s protecting its profits at the expense of human beings. It just happens that in the case of the gun industry, because its products are designed to kill human beings, the human cost is unusually high.

In a sane country, where it was accepted that sometimes corporate greed has to be curbed for the good of the society, the gun lobby wouldn’t have been allowed to get this powerful. But, that is not where we live. Not since the 1980s and the unholy fusion of evangelical bigotry and antisocial greed that historians call the Reagan Revolution.