Yeah, pretty odd the things that people fixate on.

I would like to believe that 20 dead kindergartners would focus their minds a bit better. But if history is any guide, we’ll just have a splash of mourning followed by more calls from the right to allow more guns in more places for more people with even fewer restrictions.

Connecticut allows possession of assault rifles, except those with certain features, such as a fixed bayonet type lug

See? There’s your problem, right there. If the shooter’s mother had been able to affix a bayonet to the weapon, she certainly could have prevented this horrendous event…because, you know, pointy and sharp…

Wait. What?

I believe you cut the quote off Tbogg. The law also disallows the attachable clip for your birth control pills. Because they kill babies.

This sounds like a perfectly logical legislative response to a gun manufacturer with an overstock of assault weapons that lack

a fixed bayonet type lug, or a collapsible stock.

I mean, if the legislature is captive to the gun manufacturers.

Would that ever happen?

So we fat insecure white males have just lost another election to THOSE people and you ALREADY wont let us fix bayonets on our Bushmaster XM15 E2S V Match “”Commando” 16″ Carbine that we got from Mom on our 12th birthday but NOOOOO thats not enough.

Michigan will get right on it if it doesn’t already have this provision. ALEC should check its cookie cutter legislation in case this was not included. Also, too.

The operative word is “ASSAULT.” These are ASSAULT weapons. Why the fuck should anyone have the right to own an ASSAULT weapon????

Hunting you know. It’s all about hunting and heavens knows you won’t get close enough to that squirrel to stab him with a bayonet. You have your specially made hunting knife for that. Good for skining also too.

“Each American must own enough weapons to individually be able to ‘overthrow’ da Guvmint if tehy start feeling oppressed!” Those Americans that is. The ones being oppressed. Well, not ‘oppressed’ like the slaves were but more like patriots not being allowed to show how much they love their country by having their guns taken or told how many they can own!!

Answer I hear most often to that question.

I especially like assualt rifles for hunting. You can kill off a dozen or so of those nasty squirrels with one volley. Just don’t get in my way. Also too they are good for overthrowing the lousy capitalist guvmint.

I never cease to be amazed by fetishists who know everything fucking thing about our modern military’s weaponry, but who fail to realize that there wouldn’t be enough of them left to wipe up with a sponge if they decided to resist that same military with their personally engraved, ultramegaclip Uzis.

America – Held hostage to fat, drunk, and stupid.

Well, I’m sure Wayne LaPierre and his buddies in the NRA will soon reach out in the spirit of “taking action” as requested by the White House, and boldly suggest that the pointless restriction on bayonets be removed. Maybe even make it mandatory that all assault rifles come with a bayonet with an engraved eagle motif.

That, in turn, will give the Democrats, who have to be seen as “doing something” but cower in fear of pissing off the extended-clip-lovers in their districts, a grand opportunity to pretend to stand firm and say, “No! never, we’ll never allow bayonets… over our dead bodies!”

After much posturing, the upshot will be abso-fucking-lutely no change whatsoever, and — surprise! — another massacre in x months’ time that the preznit can conveniently shed a tear over.

But, please, I’m eager to be pleasantly surprised by a different outcome. I think those 20 kids deserve that.

Obama: I propose strict regulations and licensing requirements for all assault rifle in the United States! With prison sentences for buyers and sellers alike if they break those laws.

Republicans: Are fucking kidding? We’re standing here threatening to tank the U.S. economy and maybe the world economy to protect a 3% tax increase on Millionaires? What do you think we’ll do to protest that legisltion? Terrify our base into believing ‘da guvmint’ is coming to throw them in prison? Convince them that owning as any guns as possible is a viable form of self-defense? Make SHIT loads of money doing it?

Does that scenario ever cross your mind, thingwarbler?

Yes those 20 children deserved better. I prefer directing my anger at the people fucking responsible.

Indeed, this is all part of the Republican and conservative planned and systematic inflaming of bigotries for fun and profit known as “the Southern Strategy”. Gotta use fear to sell guns, even though the crime rate in America is at a historic low overall. (Aside from the crimes committed by banksters, that is.)

Fast forward about 2 months, when this is largely forgotten and absolutely nothing is done, save maybe some faux legislation to prevent double bayonets. The country is filled with too many paranoid nutcakes and no one has the will to really take them on.

Finally a common sense answer from Brian Fischer on who’s to blame – atheists.

“You know the question’s gonna come up, where was God?” he said. “I thought God cared about the little children, God protected the little children. Where was God when all this went down? And here’s the bottom line: God is not gonna go where he’s not wanted. Now we have spent, since 1962, this, we’re 50 years into this now, we have spent 50 years telling God to get lost. Telling God, we do not want you in our schools, we don’t want to pray to you in our schools, we don’t want to pray to you before football games, we don’t want to pray to you at graduation, we don’t want anyone talking about you in a graduation speech.”

“We’ve kicked God out of our public school system,” he went on. “And I think God would say to us, ‘Hey I’ll be glad to protect your children, but you’ve gotta invite me back into your world first. I’m not gonna go where I’m not wanted. I am a gentleman.’”

But-but-but CNN told me REPEATEDLY that Connecticut has really really REALLY super duper TOUGH gun laws yesterday. Really! It’s like Great Britain there.

I completely agree with Brian Fischer–god never allows anything bad to happen in places where he’s welcome. That’s why there’s never been any shootings in any house of worship ever.

Oh, wait…

But bayonet lugs could be used to fight the War on Christmas. So they must be banned.

Telling God, we do not want you in our schools, we don’t want to pray to you in our schools, we don’t want to pray to you before football games, we don’t want to pray to you at graduation, we don’t want anyone talking about you in a graduation speech.”

“You don’t genuflect to me constantly, so I’m going to order you all killed.” Brian Fischer’s God sounds like Kim Jong Un.

Bayonets are too up close and personal. We live in a civilized society where you kill your enemy from a distance and if necessary shoot in the head when they’re down instead of stabbing them to finish them off. Bigger ammo clips allow this new and civilized procedure.

and — surprise! — another massacre in x months’ time that…

Thanks for being positive tw, prob won’t be that far off tho, especially with the ‘holiday season’ here…

Looking over the list of the killed I recognize 3 last names (Engle, Kowalski and Pozner) from my high school days 30 minutes away from Newtown.

Fuck the NRA.

If only there had been a place nearby where there were trained arms carrying citizens all this could have been prevented:

Oh, wait…

Just across the highway from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in a stately white building with an American flag flying out front, is the headquarters of the United States’ premiere industry association for gun retailers.

It’s not the consumer-focused National Rifle Association. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has kept a lower profile over the years, but is likely the second-most-powerful force for firearms use in the country.

At least irony is not dead, just little children.

Probably would have been a lot sooner than that – they arrested a kid in Oklahoma for planning one.

Sad to say, but school shooting spree season – for students – really kicks off around the end of March/early April, so yes, in a few months’ time, we can expect more.

Seriously, that’s the pattern, and it was well-established enough by the late 90s that, back in my days as a textbook rep, I just decided that from mid-March to the end of the school year, I would concentrate on only elementary schools and stay away from the secondary schools, because every year, some kid at some high school somewhere would show up one fine spring day armed to the teeth and start blowing away classmates.

Just saying that makes me sick to my stomach…because it reminds me this shit has been going on for 20 years now. The cynics and nihilists who say nothing will change are probably right, because any sane country wouldn’t have allowed this shit to go on for 2 fucking decades already. If no one has had the will – fueled by popular outrage – to do anything about it as it goes on year after year for 20 years, the odds aren’t good that this time it will be any different.

They are probably using the assessment done by the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence, which appears to be a relative comparison of state laws with each other, not against any benchmark or optimum criterion of strictness. So if a whole bunch of states have next to no restrictions, a state like Connecticut which does have some comes out looking like a tough regulator. This tells you nothing about actual enforcement, or (according to Mayors Against Illegal Guns) about little matters like how careful the state is about reporting the names of mental patients to the national background check d-base.

Why the fuck should anyone have the right to own an ASSAULT weapon????

Roving bands of suicide-bombing, terrorist squirrels are even now massing in forests nationwide.

Look it up.

And you don’t even wanna know what the fucking deer are up to…

The Onion reports, you decide: Fuck it, fuck it all to hell.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-nation-reports,30743/

So God is a vampire, and can’t come in unless invited.

A gun, on the other hand, can go wherever it wants.

God: less powerful than a gun.

And since the country has millions of people who speak for, and worship, the all-powerful gun, I don’t see why we need Bryan Fischer at all!

Ah, there’s always a silver lining.

…Still not worth it. Even if we really could stop hearing Bryan Fischer.

For MrsTbogg

Shooting 5 and 6 year olds in a kindergarten classroom…. I can’t even wrap my brain around this one. Makes me feel truly hopeless for the future of this country. And ask Tbogg…I’m the eternal optimist. It just breaks my heart…

I know it doesn’t feel this way sometimes, but most people are good and caring. We just need a reminder from time to time.

Thanks

Right. I’m sure CT laws are *comparatively* strict. And context is everything. A part-time teacher to the teeth facilitated her own death and 27 others’ quite legally.

our own Prairie Sunshine points out Connecticut is home to

Colt, Marlin, and Mossberg – just for starters

Thanks for that, IB. Good way to start a Sunday morning.

Thanx for the needed laugh.

Been like that since the early-to-mid-19th century. Winchester, Remington, Smith&Wesson….

I was taking some solace from a story at SFGate about a pair of twins, born by C-section 10 weeks early, and apparently doing quite well in their shared incubator.
They had been sharing one amniotic sac, which usually ends with both dead, and the cords were close enough to being knotted around each other that their hearts were slowing. (The doctors had hoped they wouldn’t have to do the C-section so early.)

I wish there was a site that aggregated news stories like that so that we had a place to replenish ourselves. There must be millions of heartwarming incidents taking place every day that would serve to lift one’s spirits. You’d think there would be a market for such a thing.

That would be the controversial “Griswold Clip”– holds up to 24 rounds of BC, with a homonculus inhibiting factor (HIF) of 94.67% accuracy, even if the shooter couldn’t otherwise hit the broad side of a barn with a bazooka.