I blame Republicans 100% for the lack of good gun safety laws. They are fine with children getting killed so they can keep assault rifles. This column makes it sound like everyone is to blame. That’s a lie.
Category: Guns
Terrible New York Times column ignores Republicans as the reason we don’t have better gun safety policies
Is everyone afraid of Trump and telling the truth?
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com“Among the many tragedies of the Minneapolis school shooting is how commonplace a story like this has become,” German Lopez writes. But “the prevalence of this problem is not normal, no other country has to deal with it to this extent, and we are not powerless to act.”
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-08-28T01:11:03.732958Z
The problem is Republican legislators and judges who make it easier to have guns. Too bad this column doesn’t say that.
— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-08-28T01:25:29.814Z
The US has more guns than people
The US is the only country with more civilian guns than peoplewww.smallarmssurvey.org/database/glo…
— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett.bsky.social) 2024-11-29T21:31:45.865Z
I shot skeet once with a shotgun, it was super fun! And tbh as far as guns go, a shotgun isn't *safe* but according to this data there's 3x more homicides where the perpetrator used their own body!
— The Evil Lamp From Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes (@ragesinggoddess.bsky.social) 2024-10-26T16:45:16.169Z
Clarence Thomas copied material from a gun extremist group for his bump stocks opinion
Clarence Thomas’ SCOTUS opinion on bump stocks includes copy and pasted illustrations from a gun extremist group that sells t-shirts on its website that say, “Abolish the ATF” and “Stack Up or Fuck Off.” https://t.co/QaICKVPe2z
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 15, 2024
The Supreme Court is so right-wing they got rid of the bump stock ban from the Trump administration
Correct. The only way to carve out a loophole for bumpstocks under the federal ban is to torture the words of the statute until they mean something different from the plain text. Which is exactly what the Supreme Court just did. https://t.co/cBv9nHuCon
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 14, 2024
Koch-backed groups called on SCOTUS to overturn the federal bump stock ban.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) June 14, 2024
Clarence Thomas secretly attended Koch fundraising events, but of course didn't recuse from this case — he wrote the majority opinion.
Our nation's highest court is beyond compromised. https://t.co/rUuE9vxkpN
Listen to the gunfire in these videos from the Las Vegas shooting. Automatic fire—a continuous spray of bullets enabled by a bumpstock. 60 people slaughtered in 10 minutes from 490 yards away. This is what the Supreme Court just legalized. https://t.co/NodYjeFuDL
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 14, 2024
The bump stock decision is radical, even for this Supreme Court. This Supreme Court is now on record as the Court which has guaranteed because of their extremism that more Americans will die from gun violence. They have also guaranteed that the talk of violence by MAGA, will… https://t.co/0tHdhdG0Ps
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) June 14, 2024
As Justice Sotomayor said: "When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck." A semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock has the same effect as a machine gun. This decision puts Americans in danger. Congress must act. https://t.co/w3GFKxn1sg
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) June 14, 2024
Today's extremist SCOTUS ruling on bump stocks has nothing to do with the Second Amendment; it absurdly argues that the ATF can't ban bump stocks because Congress hasn't given them the authority to do so. So now Congress must do exactly that… Outlaw this dangerous device NOW.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 14, 2024
“It’s really scary that we have lost Republican support for banning machine guns.”@ChrisMurphyCT joins @jaketapper to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a Trump-era ban on bump stocks. pic.twitter.com/4dF4miFIrZ
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) June 16, 2024
Tweets on the AR-15 rifle
NEW: @cbsnews polling shows majority of respondents supporting a nationwide ban on AR-15 semi-automatics pic.twitter.com/PHHejnWB4F
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) April 16, 2023
After each mass shooting, the public asks, “How did we get here?”
— ProPublica (@propublica) April 28, 2024
The real answer goes beyond NRA lobbyists and Second Amendment zealots.
It lies in large measure with the strategies of firearms executives like Richard Dyke. https://t.co/7qdRC2LQBj
There are as many as 44 million AR-15–style rifles in circulation in the United States today, nearly a tenth of the total 393 million guns in private hands in this country. https://t.co/u0aP6kblTu
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) October 23, 2023
NRA: “MILLIONS … use AR-15s to defend themselves and their families.”
— Louis Klarevas (@Klarevas) August 27, 2023
ALSO NRA: We have only been able to identify SIX incidents of self-defense involving an AR-15 since 1993, one of which was against a wild boar attack.
See:https://t.co/YOhDleITJg https://t.co/Azw2ixiAxe
The AR-15 semi-automatic is one of the most popular guns in the U.S. — and one of the most reviled.@NBCNews takes a look at what we know about these weapon’s use in mass shootings and which jurisdictions have banned its sale. https://t.co/YPEmwgHLEj
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 16, 2023
While Trump and others push the same old lies about gun violence at the NRA convention in Indianapolis, here's the grim reality of AR-15s and mass shootings https://t.co/i7fHVgJXTF
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) April 15, 2023
We need more gun safety
@pewresearch found "significant majorities of Americans support background checks (81%), an assault-weapons ban (63%), and a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines (64%). Majorities of Rs who don’t own guns shared those opinions, as did Dem gun owners, by even bigger margins" https://t.co/RXrwL6qgw1
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) March 27, 2023
Basically saying 'We're done here' on gun control is not what the majority of Americans want to hear according to polling. https://t.co/gEb8lKtpwP
— Sara Sidner (@sarasidnerCNN) March 29, 2023
Scientists have studied gun control policies, as I write for @Salon:https://t.co/Qbb3E4SGXJ
— Matthew Rozsa 🇺🇦🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 (@MatthewRozsa) March 28, 2023
We know certain policies (see screenshot) are linked to lower violent crime rates and suicide rates.
If not for wealthy special interest groups, these policies could be in place. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/aS9gRJZpAr
The U.S. has 4% of the world's population and 46% of the world's privately owned guns–more guns than people.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 29, 2023
it's no mystery why we gave exponentially more gun-related deaths than other countries.
Guns aren't the solution.
They're the problem. https://t.co/5pR6TiopFD
Tweets on the Washington Post coverage of AR-15s
I encourage you to subscribe to the Post.
Read this article graphically explaining how AR-15s are far more dangerous than handguns.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 27, 2023
Then recall Brett Kavanaugh's claim: "It is difficult to make the case that semi-automatic rifles are significantly more dangerous than semi-automatic handguns."https://t.co/c3n18otdSX
The AR-15 is the best-selling rifle in the United States.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 27, 2023
It also has become a stark symbol of the nation’s gun violence epidemic.
Ten of the 17 deadliest U.S. mass shootings since 2012 have involved AR-15-style guns. https://t.co/i0BQHjEx1k
MAYODAN, N.C. — “You’re in the middle of a very pro-gun world.” @jdawsey1 and I spent several weeks chronicling what happens when a AR-15 factory moves into a small town. https://t.co/4ZEIJBhaBs
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) March 27, 2023
Compared with Americans as a whole, AR-15 owners are significantly more likely to be White, male and between the ages 40 and 65. They’re also more likely to have higher incomes, to have served in the military and to be Republican. https://t.co/HOIA6kDVP4
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) March 27, 2023
Why do Americans own AR-15s? The Washington Post and @Ipsosus asked nearly 400 AR-15 owners to explain their reasons for having the weapon, what they use it for and how often they fire it. (@emgusk @aadittambe @jongerberg Washington Post) Details: https://t.co/LfFZyn0sfW pic.twitter.com/4HtodNvuNZ
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) March 27, 2023
Through it all, even after repeated mass killings involving the AR-15 that accounted for some of the nation’s darkest moments, efforts in Congress to resurrect an assault weapons ban repeatedly fizzled.https://t.co/i0BQHjEx1k pic.twitter.com/zeZkZzft6B
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 27, 2023
As the AR-15 has become a cultural symbol, so too have high-capacity magazines, which are increasingly seen as an area where policy changes could lessen the carnage, according to research and interviews with experts and police. https://t.co/01o5VhdeIq pic.twitter.com/YuBUsEZjbp
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 29, 2023
Republicans will continue to block gun safety
They won’t care that kids were killed today because they didn’t really care when kids were killed in Sandy Hook, Parkland and Uvalde.
There is no reason for private citizens to own assault rifles.
This is today’s Republican Party. Refusing to take action to make our schools safe.https://t.co/vUhbeuQ2Rg
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) March 29, 2023
"A report issued in May…analyzed FBI crime data in 271 American cities from 2020 and found that guns stolen from vehicles have become the nation’s largest source of stolen firearms — with an estimated 40,000 guns stolen from cars in those cities alone." https://t.co/CDy21a4hn8.
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) March 27, 2023
Disgusting Republican AR-15 pins
Disgraceful.
GOP Rep. Responsible For AR-15 Pins Permeating Capitol Reveals Himself https://t.co/jt38JiRrs6
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) February 3, 2023
I wonder what leaders of other nations think when they see the American Congress wearing pins of Ar-15’s instead of the American Flag.
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) February 3, 2023
I know…
“WTF is wrong with these people. I bet they supported an insurrection as well!” pic.twitter.com/zTNADTsoYa
Imagine the reaction if members of Congress had worn Boeing 747 lapel pins after 9/11, or a replica of a U-Haul rental truck after the OKC bombing
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) February 3, 2023
Then explain how wearing an AR-15 — the killing machine that's gunned down hundreds of innocent Americans — is any different
Sad! 