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Every time something like this happens, it always turns into a slapfight between the "Ban all guns now" guys and the "guns 4evar" assholes.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) December 14, 2012
Can't we agree that *something* has to change? There has to be something between "ban guns" and "woo guns" that's better than how it is now.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) December 14, 2012
Unless God himself comes down from on high and Supermans all the guns into the sun or something, it's little better than futile wishing.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) December 14, 2012
"Guns don't kill, people do." Sure, but if they didn't have guns, it'd have been a lot fucking harder from them to kill almost 30 people.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) December 14, 2012
Random trivia: Richard Gatling invented the Gatling gun because he thought it would be so terrible a thing nobody would actually use it.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) December 14, 2012
"...Obama would be asking for $10 million ... to study the root causes of gun violence, including any relationship to video games..."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 16, 2013
And already we have gun nuts going "durr hurr reckon we should ban explosives too amirite." Have some goddamn respect, you dipshits. -_-
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 15, 2013
San Bernardino, ISIS, and the Gun Problem In America™ https://t.co/Ix0ucTprNB
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) December 9, 2015
"Gun rights groups are going to march with loaded weapons and then stage a fake mass shooting." https://t.co/tzcw7hb6dx
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) December 9, 2015
Is it bad that after the Orlando shooting my initial reaction is "Yep the gun nuts and 2nd Amendment shills are already out in force again"?
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 12, 2016
I'm seeing quite a bit of that, yeah. That, and the typical "WOO GUNS! SECOND AMENDMENT! COLD DEAD HANDS! RAWR!" bullshit, too.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 12, 2016
So, the asshat narrative today is either "all Muslims are evil" or "they were gay they deserved it" or "too soon to talk about gun control."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 12, 2016
"Here Are The Answers To Sarah Palin’s Questions Attacking Obama’s Stance On Guns" https://t.co/yiRy8ftezy
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 18, 2016
"Trump on Clinton's guards: 'Take their guns away, see what happens to her'" https://t.co/TqW7Bb7G8O
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) September 17, 2016
For being so "rah rah guns" as he is, Trump sure got the fuck out of Dodge at the barest whiff of a potential gun, even if there wasn't one.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2016
Trump needs to lose legit, and not because he was too dead to continue his campaign. Violence, guns or not, will only make things worse.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2016
But yeah, again, the protester didn't have a gun. Apparently, all the guy had was a "Republicans Against Trump" sign. Good on him.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2016
"Can Donald Trump Confront America’s Gun Crisis? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ" https://t.co/pj6ne2wqqh
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 13, 2017
Guns and the Second Amendment (which doesn't actually say what gun nuts think it says) are apparently more important, I guess? *weary sigh*
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2017
I truly cannot understand why so many people in this country worship guns like some sort of perverted religion or whatever. It's asinine.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2017
Not literally worship... and yet, sometimes, it seems like it *is* indeed literal worship. People are just *weird* about guns in the USA.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2017
Point being you guys outlawed guns. We (ostensibly) have gun ownership written in our constitution. Mass shootings here every month or less.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2017
Though there's always going to be black market, of course. Hell, we have it here even *with* our lax as hell gun laws (or lack thereof).
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2017
Too many people here can't even be bothered to follow what little bit of gun control we do have in order to legally own their guns.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2017
And yet, for any given mass shooting here, it's probably a good chance the guns used were bought legally. Which means the gun laws are shit.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2017
Gun laws require registration and criminals don't want to be registered, for obvious reasons.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2017
But then, that also leads to the whole fallacious argument of "criminals won't obey gun laws anyway, so no point in changing the laws."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2017
Trump weighs in on Texas, and says it's a 'mental health problem', not a 'guns situation'https://t.co/t1ranMozyJ pic.twitter.com/v2kguBtXeJ
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 6, 2017
Yeah this is another go-to rationalization. The problem, though, is that it's far too easy for mentally unstable people to legally get guns. https://t.co/X92UBhp9J5
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2017
"Too soon to talk about gun control" is another thing we hear often. But when shootings occur every other week, when is it *not* "too soon"?
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 6, 2017
So... what's going to happen the first time a "good guy with a gun" is shot dead by police who mistake him for the mass shooter he was ostensibly trying to stop? 🤔
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) November 21, 2017
I personally don't know if he was part of Antifa or a white nationalist or a vampire or an alien bodysnatcher wearing a human suit or whatever. All I know is he is an evil fuck, just like every *other* evil fuck who gets it in their head to pick up a gun and shoot up a school.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 15, 2018
People can argue whether these people are legitimately insane in a medical sense or not, but I don't give a shit about that. If they thought it was a good idea to take a gun and kill a bunch of school kids and teachers, then they *are* crazy in the only way that actually matters.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 15, 2018
Just like they don’t want to solve the DACA problem, why didn’t the Democrats pass gun control legislation when they had both the House & Senate during the Obama Administration. Because they didn’t want to, and now they just talk!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2018
So... why doesn't Trump prove for once that he's *so* much better than the Democrats by passing gun control legislation? You know, given that #Trumpublicans currently control all branches of government. Because he doesn't want to, and now he just talks. https://t.co/WUIEne6i8h
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 18, 2018
“Fuck you, I like guns.”
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2018
Pretty good blog. Just... beware of the comments section underneath. It is exactly as much of a toxic sludge pit as you'd expect it to be. https://t.co/XxP3E5ARaO
In a place where it was already legal to conceal carry and bring guns onto school grounds, this happened, even with a safety training course (September 12, 2014): https://t.co/AwpayR5qFb
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 25, 2018
"Give teachers guns and just hope for the best" is *NOT* a viable strategy to stop mass shootings in schools.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 25, 2018
When there's a picture of a Muslim holding up a machine gun and a Quran, they call it extremism.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 3, 2018
When there's a picture of a #Trumpublican holding up a machine gun and a Bible, those very same people call it patriotism. pic.twitter.com/tPShZax5Mb
Malice not necessarily on the part of the people in the video themselves, but on the part of those who are trying to convince these people that the Parkland students are actors or whatever. Or trying to convince them that gun control is such an inherently terrible thing.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 3, 2018
"We're very tired of them shouting."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 3, 2018
Well you know what I'm very tired of? I'm very tired of crazy/evil people with guns shooting up schools. You know what else I'm very tired of? Snooty, hateful assholes like you people actively refusing to do a single goddamn thing to stop it.
NRA : gun rights :: PETA : animal rights
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 5, 2018
"White House Gun Proposal Includes Plan to Arm Teachers, No Change in Age Requirement"
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 12, 2018
So, basically, nothing actually useful. https://t.co/VPPNWyeuE4
"Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?" https://t.co/MTwVXHAuHF
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 15, 2018
"The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male—but not just any white guy. According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license meets a very specific profile."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 15, 2018
Supposedly, according to some of these nutbags, anti-gun people just hate guns *so* *much* that they used guns to kill 17 kids, just so they can get anti-gun laws in place. (Or, again, it was all faked, depending on which nutbag you read. Their theories aren't consistent at all.)
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 25, 2018
The NRA does everything it can to make sure existing gun laws are as weak as possible. Then when those laws inevitably fail to stop needless gun violence, they can point to those laws and say "See?! Gun control doesn't work!" #FuckTheNRA #GunControlNow
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 26, 2018
The original sign would have been maybe ever so slightly more effective if the kid's dad wasn't standing *right* *there* with a gun strapped to his chest. But even then, I doubt it. https://t.co/zIMSD9kO7B
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 26, 2018
Gun nuts always ignore that "well regulated" bit in the Second Amendment, because it goes counter to their belief of unrestricted gun ownership. They love that "shall not be infringed" part, though. That seems to be the only part they really know.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 31, 2018
So, no, David Hogg and the other Parkland students calling for better gun control is not in opposition to the Second Amendment. And, no, David Hogg calling for an advertiser boycott of Laura Ingraham is not in opposition to the First Amendment.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 31, 2018
Also, David Hogg and the other Parkland students calling for better gun control is, in fact, covered by the First Amendment, under the "petition the Government for a redress of grievances" bit. Ammosexuals aren't required to like it or approve of it.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 31, 2018
If ammosexual gun nuts want to counter-boycott the advertisers who pulled their ads from Laura Ingraham's show, that's fine, too. I suppose time will tell which segment of the US population has more influence.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 31, 2018
Also, remember when #FauxNoise mocked Obama for tearing up over this? That was their response to Obama calling for better gun control, which the GOP Congress ignored. https://t.co/ETVFOtGCrA
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 5, 2018
I wonder how the "blue lives matter" crowd and the "good guy with a gun" crowd will react the first time a "good guy with a gun" is killed (accidentally or otherwise) by a police officer. Because it is inevitable, assuming it hasn't already happened at some point.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 5, 2018
Well, a scant bit of research shows that it has already almost happened at least once. The person in question didn't die, but he did get shot by police after he took the gun away from a hostage taker. https://t.co/o9lxWsKgem
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 5, 2018
And in that case, it wasn't even his gun. He just happened to be holding it. What about when police come on a situation where a "good guy with a gun" is *actively* *shooting* at someone else, and then they mow him (or her) down as a result of that? Again, this is inevitable.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 5, 2018
The probability of this type of scenario playing out will very likely increase severely if the "good guy with a gun" in question just happens to be a black person or a Latino person, rather than a white person. Regardless, in any case, it is inevitable.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 5, 2018
"According to the sheriff's office report, Simpson told deputies he'd left his gun by accident. By the time the chemistry teacher realized his mistake, the Glock was already in the hands of a drunk homeless man who had picked it up and fired." https://t.co/szixBNJFiB
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 12, 2018
#JamesShawJr is just a good guy. Period. No need for that "with a gun" qualifier.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 30, 2018
Here's a good guy without a gun who disarmed a shooter but was then shot by police (ostensibly "good guys with guns" themselves) because he happened to still be holding the shooter's gun. https://t.co/SuOzfZDRlZ
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 6, 2018
Here's another good thing that can be said about #JamesShawJr: at least he didn't later get shot by police like #TonyGarces did just because he happened to still be holding the shooter's gun. https://t.co/SuOzfZDRlZ
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 6, 2018
"He's a professional liar who will say anything to appease whatever crowd he's at. If he's in front of families, he might say something in support of common sense gun reform. But then when he's at the NRA, he'll say something to get a big cheer." https://t.co/jdN1FecIXa
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 6, 2018
Doesn't matter if the shooter was a 14yr old kid, a white supremacist redneck hick, a crazy mouth-frothing lunatic, a [insert nationality here] terrorist, or whatever. The point remains that guns are far too fucking easily accessible in the USA. #GunControlNow #FuckTheNRA #NoRA
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 11, 2018
"Seven people were found dead with gunshot wounds"
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 11, 2018
Looks like it was guns to me.
Oh no the first mass shooting in Australia in how long now? Welp I guess that means gun control is obviously a complete failure forever might as well get rid of it all and give everyone in the world guns that's sure to make everything better. Fucking morons. #GunControlNow #NoRA
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 11, 2018
That's how stupid all the dumbshit "gun control laws obviously don't work so might as well get rid of them and give everyone guns to make us all safer" assholes sound to me.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 11, 2018
You say we should focus on mental illness instead of #GunControlNow? I say we should focus on mental illness *ALSO,* *IN* *ADDITION* *TO* #GunControlNow. It's not like we're limited to only doing one or the other. (Too bad Trump lifted gun background checks on the mentally ill.)
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 11, 2018
How did humanity ever survive up to the 11th century or so? I mean, there were no guns prior to about then, after all, so there were no good guys with guns around to stop all the violence. It's a wonder humanity didn't wipe itself out before that point. We should all be dead.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 15, 2018
But when those Chinese dudes made the first fire lance, though? At that point, and forever afterward, the good guy with a gun became a thing that could exist. The world suddenly became a whole lot safer then.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 15, 2018
So... what's the over/under on how long it will take before we start hearing the surviving Santa Fe students being called Nazis or terrorists by dumbshit gun nuts?
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 18, 2018
I don't care if it's a 17-year old kid, a 14-year old kid, some white supremacist shitbag, some asshole shouting anti-Trump crap, John Rambo, or the fucking Terminator, it is too easy for violent nutjobs to get their hands on guns in the USA. #GunControlNow #FuckTheNRA #NoRA
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 18, 2018
"Nobody did anything about the gun when JFK was killed!"
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 18, 2018
-- some dumbshit gun nut on Facebook
Oh, really? https://t.co/p4WRAx1S2d #GunControlNow #FuckTheNRA #NoRA
"Gun control laws don't work, so we might as well not even bother," is probably the #1 most asinine, trite, tiresome, banal, glib, disingenuous and, most importantly, *incorrect* "argument" that gun nuts use (repeatedly, continuously, endlessly). #GunControlNow #FuckTheNRA #NoRA
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 22, 2018
Jaywalking laws don't stop people from jaywalking, might as well not bother. Littering laws don't stop people from littering, might as well not bother. DUI laws don't stop people from driving drunk, might as well not bother. #GunControlNow #FuckTheNRA #NoRA
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 22, 2018
The Ten Commandments don't stop people from murdering, thieving, lying, committing adultery, or any of that other goddamn shit, so might as well throw them out and not bother. #GunControlNow #FuckTheNRA #NoRA
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 22, 2018
"Criminals are gonna get guns no matter what, might as well not bother." "Current gun laws wouldn't have stopped [insert any given shooting here], might as well not bother." "Blah yadda meep meep ptchoo argle bargle, so might as well not bother." #GunControlNow #FuckTheNRA #NoRA
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 22, 2018
"There are already too many guns in circulation, so might as well not bother." "The real problem is [insert "mental health" or "human nature" or whatever other lame, banal, do-nothing excuse here], so might as well not bother with gun control." #GunControlNow #FuckTheNRA #NoRA
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 22, 2018
What they really mean to say is "I love guns more than life itself, so don't you dare do anything at all whatsoever to restrict access to my favorite toys, even if it means children keep getting murdered." Anything else is platitudinous horseshit. #GunControlNow #FuckTheNRA #NoRA
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) May 22, 2018
