The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:
Twice in recent days Walker has fumbled questions on gun control: In one interview he seemed to suggest monitoring young people’s social media activity, and in another he dodged the question altogether. The topic is sensitive for Walker. Like many Republicans, he is an ardent champion of gun rights. But firearms have also played a big role in his own turbulent personal history.
Walker’s ex-wife, Cindy Grossman, said he repeatedly held a gun to her head and threatened to blow her “brains out.” A Dallas County judge was worried enough about the possibility of violence that in 2005 he temporarily took away Walker’s guns when he granted Grossman a restraining order. Walker has chalked up the violent episodes to a mental illness he said has now been treated.
The Insider reports:
Walker said the focus should be on the shooters, not guns, and decried “people that’s trying to score political points” by pushing for gun control legislation. “We need to get into what happened to him, why, by putting money in mental health. Have people thought about that?” Walker said.
“People see that it’s a person wielding that weapon, you know, Cain killed Abel,” Walker said. “And that’s the problem that we have. And I said, what we need to do is look into how we can stop those things.”
“You talk about doing a disinformation,” Walker continued, “what about getting a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women, that’s looking at their social media? What about doing that, looking into things like that, and we can stop that that way?”
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6 stories from https://www.joemygod.com/ on the Uvalde school shooting and the rabid right
Arizona Senate Candidate Is A Fan Of The Unabomber
Politico Magazine does a deep dive into Blake Masters:
Masters’ views, while hard right, are not quite fringe in today’s Republican Party. He’s a harsh critic of Big Tech and says Trump was robbed in 2020. He traffics in the “replacement theory” that Democrats want to change the electorate through a wave of undocumented immigrants.
He opposes aid to Ukraine and the right to an abortion. (He recently faced controversy for criticizing Griswold v. Connecticut, which legalized contraceptives nationally.) Masters also clearly likes to get a rise out of people.
He counts Ted Kaczynski as among his intellectual influencers — pointing to the Unabomber’s manifesto as a source of inspiration for his own message of the dystopian techno-present. He told one conservative interviewer that left-wing ideology makes “a pretty good candidate for the Antichrist.”
Read the full article. Masters is a former employee of homocon billionaire Peter Thiel, who has dumped over $13 million into his campaign. There’s a lot more about their history at the link.
Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • 4 hours ago
There’s no denying that the inmates are running the asylum. The USA has become a gigantic mental institution when large numbers of voters and politicians look up to psychopaths. It makes me sick to my stomach.
Why do i assume theyre saying:
“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
Police Admit “Wrong Decisions” In TX Mass Shooting
Reuters reports:
Panicked children and teachers placed half a dozen calls to 911 emergency services from the Texas classrooms where a massacre was unfolding, pleading for police to intervene, while roughly 20 officers waited in a hallway for nearly an hour before entering the room, authorities said on Friday.
At least two children called the 911 emergency number from the two connecting classrooms after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, according to Colonel Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
NBC News reports:
Police admitted to a stunning string of failures — including driving right by the gunman — in responding to the Texas school shooting while children were being massacred inside, with the head of the state’s Department of Public Safety saying the time for making excuses about the botched response was over.
The Friday news conference came after days of confusion, inconsistencies and a muddled timeline of law enforcement’s response to the rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Speaking on the delay in breaching the classroom where the shooter was, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said that “from the benefit of hindsight where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. There’s no excuse for that.”
CNN reports:
Chilling details continue to emerge about Tuesday’s mass shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
One of the young survivors told CNN that she and her classmates were watching a movie when the shooter entered her room and shot her teacher and many of her friends. According to officials, the shooter was in the school for up to an hour and had barricaded himself inside adjoining classrooms.
As all this was taking place, parents had joined dozens of law enforcement officers outside the school, desperate to know if their children were still alive.
The New York Times reports:
The gunman is believed to have entered the school through a door that had been left propped open by a teacher, according to Mr. McCraw. The gunman went on to fire more than 100 rounds. Over the next 78 minutes, more than half a dozen harrowing 911 calls were made, at least two of them from students, describing unfolding carnage inside classrooms and begging for the police to come.
As many as 19 police officers were in a hallway inside the school shortly after noon, but Mr. McCraw said they made “no effort” to breach the classroom door. Asked what he would say to parents, Mr. McCraw’s response was a mix of defiance and resignation. “What do I say to the parents?” he asked. “I don’t have anything to say to the parents, other than what happened. We are not here to defend what happened, we are here to report the facts.”
The Washington Post reports:
Police were reluctant to immediately engage with the gunman who spent an hour inside the elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., where he killed 19 children and two adults because “they could’ve been shot,” a lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a CNN interview.
“At that point, if they proceeded any further not knowing where the suspect was at, they could’ve been shot, they could’ve been killed, and that gunman would have had an opportunity to kill other people inside that school,” Chris Olivarez said.
They expect teachers to do what their SWAT TEAM was too terrified to do.
That’s common logic amongst law enforcement types… suspects who panic deserve to be beaten or killed because they should have remained calm, but officers who injure or kill a civilian after panicking need to be forgiven because of the stress and danger associated with the job.
Nope.
The Uvalde police department bragged about their “SWAT team” on their Facebook page earlier in the year. They did active shooter drills at local schools. Then when it mattered, they did nothing.
Worth noting… Texas loves to tell the federal govt to leave them the Hell alone when it comes to issues like legislating access to guns, yet when faced with a very real threat from an active shooter, these state and local law enforcement entities decided to stand by and wait for federal CBP forces to take out the shooter.
Most chilling of all is he said that they have to do better next time. Because he knows there’ll be a next time.
Nowhere else. In. The. World.
(Yesterday’s NYT morning newsletter.)
Georgia Republican gives the most UNINTELLIGIBLE response possible live on air
Republican Monsters Value Guns MORE Than Protecting Children’s Lives
Read more HERE: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/15… “Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick on “hardening” schools: “There should be one entrance in and one entrance out in all of our elementary and all of our middle schools. They’re small enough to do that. There should be only one way in, and that should be a well protected entrance.””
Corrupt Cuellar Goes Full Trump In Claiming Victory Against Jessica Cisneros
Read Jessica Cisneros’ call to action HERE: https://twitter.com/JCisnerosTX/statu… “This is a close race. We have a call to action: Track your mail-in ballot here: https://teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/Ball… If your mail-in ballot was rejected, call our voter protection hotline: 956-413-7752 & we’ll help you cure it. We won’t stop fighting until every vote is counted. #TX28” ***
Top Trump Aide BURNED Incriminating Documents After 2020 Presidential Election
Read more HERE: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/mar… “Then-White House Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows burned documents shortly after the 2020 presidential election, a witness has told the Jan. 6 committee that is investigating the 2021 Capitol insurrection. According to Politico, Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked for Meadows at the White House, testified that she saw Meadows burn documents after a meeting at his office with Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA). Politico cited an anonymous source familiar with the investigation. A lawyer for Meadows declined to comment to the publication. After then-President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, some members of his inner circle and other allies commenced a haphazard campaign for Trump to stay in power. Trump baselessly claimed the election was “rigged” against him in several states. Documents and testimony show that Perry connected with justice department official Jeffrey Clark, who lobbied the department to assist Trump in overturning the election. As has been previously reported, Politico noted that Trump considered firing Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and replacing him with Clark.”
Furious Texas Paul EXPLODES at Fake Christians after Uvalde
Tucker Blatantly LIES About Gun Lobbies While Promoting Civil War Rhetoric
Read more HERE: https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-c… “TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So, we know for a fact that what we are doing isn’t working, but we should also honest enough to acknowledge that it’s very hard to know what to do instead. Despite what you may have heard, the problem isn’t that we don’t care enough. There’s not a person in this country who is not horrified by the sight of murdered children. It’s the worst thing, and everybody thinks that. The problem is that the human mind is much more complex and harder to control than we like to admit. A person who is intent on committing violence is very hard to stop under any circumstances. An act of Congress isn’t going to do it. Neither will gun control. There are more guns in this country than there are people. There always have been. However you feel about that fact, you can acknowledge that you will never get rid of all of those guns. The Constitution prohibits that and you would set off a civil war if you try to do it.” ***
