On rhetoric of “thoughts and prayers”:
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) May 25, 2022
Laments like Greg Abbott’s just now, linking US gun massacres to US mental health crises, show mainly that they know nothing about rest of the world.
-Every country has mental health issues, and bigots too.
-Only US has AR-15s everywhere.
“Spare me the bullshit of mental illness,” says Sen. Murphy of the United States. “We’re not an outlier on mental illness, we’re an outlier on firearms”
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) May 24, 2022