#massshootings — Public Fediverse posts

Watermark Out News: Resurrected in code: Colorado artists digitally recreate Pulse crosswalk memorial. “The digital memorial can only be experienced when physically present in the location of the crosswalk. Built by hand through open-source coding, the platform lives on a private server under their own domain. [Professor Corrina] Espinosa says that unlike paint or a physical art installation, […]

The NEW Soylent Green

A Moses-like figure stands before the mic at an NRA convention and thunders, “I will give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.”

At the end of the sci-fi film Soylent Green, that same actor implores his detective boss to spread the news, “Soylent Green is people!”

In the movie, as the corpses pile up from an overcrowded, miserable earth, they are carted away in garbage trucks, secretly converted to Soylent Green, and fed back to the living. Soylent Green is better than the old Red and Yellow varieties, but it is scarce, so there are riots. A detective played by Charlton Heston discovers the deception. In a word, humanity has become cannibals, feeding upon itself, in a state-sanctioned system of cyclical violence.

Such is the world created by the NRA. It plays upon the irrational fears of a few to continue to thwart common sense gun legislation. Its largely successful lobbying over the years has distorted the original intention of the Second Amendment so much so that it has become almost impossible to pass laws more in keeping with the Founders’ intent.

When the bodies continue to pile up as a result of gun violence, and there is no legislative change primarily due to the lobbying of the NRA and the like, we are in every sense of the word disrespecting the dead and feeding upon ourselves.

In a state-sanctioned system of cyclical violence.

Like in Soylent Green.

And like the movie, the end result is not very pretty.

But go ahead. Watch the news.

Take another bite.

June 23, 2014

The NEW Soylent Green

A Moses-like figure stands before the mic at an NRA convention and thunders, “I will give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.”

At the end of the sci-fi film Soylent Green, that same actor implores his detective boss to spread the news, “Soylent Green is people!”

In the movie, as the corpses pile up from an overcrowded, miserable earth, they are carted away in garbage trucks, secretly converted to Soylent Green, and fed back to the living. Soylent Green is better than the old Red and Yellow varieties, but it is scarce, so there are riots. A detective played by Charlton Heston discovers the deception. In a word, humanity has become cannibals, feeding upon itself, in a state-sanctioned system of cyclical violence.

Such is the world created by the NRA. It plays upon the irrational fears of a few to continue to thwart common sense gun legislation. Its largely successful lobbying over the years has distorted the original intention of the Second Amendment so much so that it has become almost impossible to pass laws more in keeping with the Founders’ intent.

When the bodies continue to pile up as a result of gun violence, and there is no legislative change primarily due to the lobbying of the NRA and the like, we are in every sense of the word disrespecting the dead and feeding upon ourselves.

In a state-sanctioned system of cyclical violence.

Like in Soylent Green.

And like the movie, the end result is not very pretty.

But go ahead. Watch the news.

Take another bite.

June 23, 2014

Petition calling on Kennedy Center donors to suspend funding nears 100,000 signatures

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/kennedy-center-donors-petition

An OTD article on @Wikipedia reminds us that in addition to #Hamas terrorists who commit #MassShootings of innocent people including children in #Israel , there are also #Zionist terrorists such as #BaruchGoldstein who commit mass shootings of innocent people including children in #OccupiedTerritory of #Palestine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre

#TwoStateSolution #CeasefireNow

The development will change the shape of the NYC trial, since #NYAG #LeticiaJames was seeking to oust #WayneLaPierre from his position. She is also seeking financial penalties from #LaPierre & 3 other defendants.

LaPierre played a leading role in transforming #GunCulture in #America, but the last ½ decade of his tenure at the #NRA was marred by scandals & internal upheaval.

#law #legal #politics #guns #MassShootings #Republicans #influence #greed #power #finance #business #GunLobby

#Journal, Day 1382
Sunday, 31 December 2023
#UkraineWar: Day 677
#HamasIsraelWar: Day 85
#MassShootings in the USA in 2023: 655

#NewYearsEve2023

#radiosilence #cardiovascularevent
#scare #thyroid #renalfailure
#inflammation #infection

Biden noted that he would continue to urge #Congress to take #legislative action on #banning #AssaultWeapons & implementing #UniversalBackgroundChecks. Until then, he said the WH & activists will move forward with or without them.
There have been >500 #MassShootings in 2023, acc/to Gun Violence Archive, & >30k #firearm-related #deaths. #GunViolence deaths among #teens & #children also rose an alarming 50% between 2019 & 2021 to become the leading cause of death for children in the #UnitedStates.

A year has passed since the #massacre at #RobbElementary School in #Uvalde, #Texas — and still, the public doesn’t know the whole story.

#GunControl #UniversalBackgroundChecks #RedFlagLaws #AR15bans #BanAR15s #MassShootings #SchoolShooting #GunFetishism #AmericanGunFetish
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/23/uvalde-shooting-anniversary-investigations/