A once-in-a-century pandemic cannot be the only thing that slows mass shootings in this country. It’s time for leaders everywhere to listen to the American people when they say enough is enough. pic.twitter.com/7MEJ87Is3E
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 23, 2021
Posts Tagged ‘Violence
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Mar
21
Take Up Space
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Jun
20
The Brink Of Explosion
Cush Jumbo reading Malcom X’s The Language of Violence. https://t.co/ZyJblqwzyc
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Steven Kavuma (@_StevenKavuma) May 28, 2020This boy had his hands up when an NYPD ofcr pulled his mask down and pepper sprayed him. @NYPDShea? Mayor … twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) May 31, 2020Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own fro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020****
notice how you don’t see any of this on the news. https://t.co/kaYiXVVagN
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𝐲𝐚𝐬 🐝BLM (@sottcalum) May 31, 2020White people talking to white people. More of this please. If you’re white and you believe yourself not to be racis… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 31, 2020****
Evergreen until it’s not.
https://t.co/AG11URt6O2
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Issa Rae (@IssaRae) May 30, 2020This is the moment Minneapolis Police fired on our CBS News crew with rubber bullets. As you can see, no protesters… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michael George (@MikeGeorgeCBS) May 31, 2020****
I cannot believe what I just witnessed. They pulled up onto the square with a police siren on and did this.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Natalie Neysa Alund (@nataliealund) May 30, 2020watching a stream of the union square protests to see this police officer throw up what looks to be a white power s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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kiki (@kikimurphy_) May 31, 202002
Oct
15
Two Words
Fuck you.
Those are my two words.
Fuck you to gun fetishists who think that their “right” to own an arsenal trump my right to make it through the day without being shot dead.
Fuck you to Second Amendment absolutists who claim that any common sense restrictions on guns are a blow to liberty.
Fuck you to those who reread that same Second Amendment. Want to read it? Here it is.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The “right to bear arms”, in the plain meaning of the text, is a corollary to the necessity of a militia. The last time I checked, people aren’t exactly being called up to join volunteer brigades.
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May
14
Maybe This Is What It Will Take
We’ve said “Never again” so many times that the phrase has lost its meaning.
We said it after Columbine.
We said it after Gabby Giffords’ meet-and-greet was sprayed with bullets, and a nine year old girl was killed.
We said it after Sandy Hook, after 20 children were murdered.
Black and Latino parents say it after every drive by shooting, every murder on our streets.
But it always seems to happen again, and again.
Thirty-five thousand Americans have been killed by gun violence since Sandy Hook. “Never again” quickly turned into “business as usual”, as the NRA flexed its muscles, as Sandy Hook Truthers oozed up from the mud, as politicians scurried to assure their fealty to gun fetishists.
Now, we might have reached a tipping point.
And if it happens, if Isla Vista is what turns the trajectory, it will be, sad to say, because it happened in an affluent, influential neighborhood, filled with college students, a “white” area which wasn’t supposed to witness such horrific violence.
And if it happens, it might be due to the efforts of Richard Martinez, father of one of the slain.
