Category: Gun Control
RI Cop Arrested For Assault At Abortion Rights Rally
NBC News reports:
An off-duty Rhode Island police officer who was running for state Senate was arrested on an assault charge after allegedly attacking his female opponent during an abortion rights protest Friday night.
Providence police patrolman Jeann Lugo, 35, was arrested on charges of simple assault and disorderly conduct, state police said Saturday night. Lugo turned himself in, was arraigned and released, it said.
Jennifer Rourke, who is running for the state’s 29th District, said she had finished speaking at a rally outside the state house in Providence on Friday when she was attacked by Lugo.
Read the full article.
Yesterday it was reported that Providence police have placed Lugo on paid leave. Lugo last night deleted his social media accounts.
I laugh at the use of the term “alleged” when there’s video of the crime. We know he did it. The only question is whether or not there’s any accountability for violent right wingers.
He felt so enabled he attacked her on camera and thought he could walk away
He might have been right if this were a southern state
And he would have been right if the cameras were off
Doug105 Todd20036 • 2 hours ago
Look how many were on camera attacking the capital and only got a slap on the wrist.
supposedly he said “i’ve never done that .. in public” …leading many FB commenters to wonder how often he did so in private.
RepubliCON | Christopher Titus | Armageddon Update
SCOTUS Conservatives Are Just Getting Started
Let’s talk about Day 5 of the hearings….
Let’s talk about the pardon requests….
Let’s talk about what they’re going after next….
Let’s talk about unpacking the Supreme Court decision…
Let’s talk about the objection to unpacking the court….
In Concurring Roe Opinion, Clarence Thomas Calls For Overturning Obergefell, Lawrence, And Griswold Rulings
And it starts. We knew this was coming. Doesn’t he realize his own marriage is also going to be illegal if we return to the 1950’s? These wealthy or religious people on the court don’t think the police are bad because they won’t be affected by bad cops, like congress they won’t be affected by the rulings they make. These people have the idea that they are the elite and are above the laws the laws the rest of us must follow Why would they worry about guns flooding the country, the first-time people peacefully protested near their homes they got congress to immediately pass a law against it enforced by the very police they constantly protect from any civilian threats, even though congress cannot pass laws that protect school kids from mass shootings. 9 court justices got a law passed right away no delay; many kids killed so what. This is no longer a country governed by the people for the people, it is corporations ruling over government to support profit at all costs. Ron and I have made sure our passports are up to date and we will be using our funds to move as soon as sex between consenting same sex couples are illegal and our marriage becomes a joke in Florida, the home of the desperate to president maga “Don’t say gay” attack Disney for being too tolerant DeathSantis makes us gays illegal. Oh yes that is the same DeathSantis that recently tried to say with a straight face that Florida wouldn’t tolerate attacks on gay people as he celebrated the Pulse night club massacre. This is on every tRump voter. This is on every Republican voter. This is on every religious person who voted for the Republican over the Democrat. Thank you to each and every one of you for rolling the country back to the 1950s to enjoy your superiority. Now give up your cell phones, smart TV’s, internet, GPS, and all the science advances, give up all the medical advances, just go back to live in that regressive world you assholes because you don’t deserve to live with the rest of us. Thanks for putting the rights of others on the chopping block so you could have your god in everyone’s life and your fucking tax breaks so corporations and wealthy people pay nothing while the public work 3 or 4 jobs 60 to 80 hours a week to pay the corporate rent and buy food to eat. Fuck this country. By the way think you are a citizen because you were born in the US, that is also on the chopping block that many hard right conservatives want to get rid of. Hugs
From Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion:
The Court’s abortion cases are unique, see ante, at 31–32, 66, 71–72, and no party has asked us to decide “whether our entire Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence must be preserved or revised,” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 813 (opinion of THOMAS, J.).
Thus, I agree that “[n]othing in [the Court’s] opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” Ante, at 66.
For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.
Gregory In Seattle Elagabalus • 39 minutes ago
Honestly, I don’t think he cares. Republicans are so blinded by their hate that they never think through how their actions might somehow affect themselves.
That doesn’t mean someone or some group won’t try to overturn that. Remember, the conservative majority doesn’t *need* Thomas to accomplish its goals.
Sister_Bertrille • 2 hours ago
Women, we fought hard for our liberation. We will have to do it again.
LGBTQI+ brothers, sisters, and allies, we fought hard to safeguard our rights and lives during the AIDS epidemic. We will have to do it again.
We have it in us. Everyone else, join us or get the fuck out of our way.
Trump Writhes With Anger While Hate-Watching January 6th Hearings
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“Former President Donald Trump is hate-watching the January 6 committee hearings, incensed because he believes nobody is defending him, according to The Washington Post.
Trump is at “the point of about to scream at the TV” as he tunes in to each hearing, one unnamed close advisor told the paper.
Another in his circle, also unnamed, told the paper that Trump continually complains that “there’s no one to defend me” at the hearings, which have attracted huge amounts of media coverage.
A person familiar with the situation denied this to Insider, saying: “This is not true. He has barely watched any of the hearings at all.””
NY Gov Blasts “Shocking” SCOTUS Ruling On Guns
The right to have a gun without being in a militia or military was a new right created by gun lover Anton Scalia and even he said there were some limits. That is the meaning of activist judges, he loved guns and played with guns and wanted guns freely taken everywhere. But now the SCOTUS are removing any restrictions based on a mythical romanticized verson of what the US was and founded to be. The fact is for all of US history guns were very tightly controlled, they were not just carried by everyone everywhere. It was not that way. Those myths of the wild west of gun touting people shooting everywhere and people like the rifle man solving all the problem is not real and is a stupid fantasy. The SCOTUS is an ideology driven group that is going to cause the entire country to crash and burn. All to push a religious ideology. Scary. Hugs
Spectrum News has the transcript:
Does everyone understand what a concealed weapon means? That you have no forewarning. That someone can hide a weapon on them and go into our subways, go into our grocery stores, like stores up in Buffalo, New York, where I’m from. Go into a school in Parkland or Uvalde, This could place millions of New Yorkers in harm’s way.
As governor of the state of New York, my number one priority is to keep New Yorkers safe, but today the Supreme Court is sending us backwards in our efforts to protect families and prevent gun violence.
And it’s particularly painful that this came down at this moment, when we are still dealing with families in pain from mass shootings that have occurred, the loss of life, their beloved children and grandchildren.
I’m prepared to call the Legislature back into session to deal with this. We’ve been in contact with leadership — we’re just looking at dates — but I will say, we are not powerless in this situation.
We’re not going to cede our rights that easily, despite the best efforts of the politicized Supreme Court of the United States of America.
This decision isn’t just reckless, it’s reprehensible. It’s not what New Yorkers want, and we should have the right of determination of what we want to do in terms of our gun laws in our state.
KaneHau TexasBoy • 3 hours ago
That way they can force women to get pregnant and have the baby at gun point.
La’Kietha TexasBoy • 2 hours ago
and they announced this decision right after they asked for and got beefed up security for Supreme Court justices
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