December 17, 2012

We Deserve Leaders with the Courage to Change Gun Laws

December 17, 2012 Buck Banks

This time our response must consist of more than regret, sorrow, and condolence. The children of Sandy Hook Elementary School and all victims of gun violence deserve leaders who have the courage to participate in a meaningful discussion about our gun laws — and how they can be reformed and better enforced to prevent gun violence and death in America. This can no longer wait.

— Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), on Facebook.

Gohmert’s Solution: More Guns

December 17, 2012 Buck Banks

I wish to God the principal had had an M4 in her office, locked up, so when she heard gunfire she pulls it out … and takes him out, takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids.

— Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), quoted by CNN, arguing the deadly Connecticut school shooting could have been halted sooner if staff at the school had been equipped with guns.

Obama Calls for Gun-Control Action

December 17, 2012 Buck Banks

No single law or set of laws can eliminate evil from the world… but that can’t be an excuse for inaction.

— President Obama, speaking at a memorial service for victims of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

U.S. the Most Heavily Armed Country in the World

December 17, 2012 Buck Banks

270 million

Estimated number of guns in the hands of civilians in the United States, making Americans the most heavily armed people in the world per capita, according to CNN. Yemen, a tribal nation with no history of strong central government or the rule of law, comes in a distant second.

Joe Scarborough: There are More Common Sense Americans Than There are Special Interests

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It’s Both a Gun Problem and a Mental Health Problem

December 17, 2012 Buck Banks

61

Number of mass murders, since 1982, involving firearms that have occurred throughout the United States. Of those, 43 of the killers were white males, and only one was a woman.

Day: December 17, 2012

We Deserve Leaders with the Courage to Change Gun Laws

— Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), on Facebook.

Gohmert’s Solution: More Guns

I wish to God the principal had had an M4 in her office, locked up, so when she heard gunfire she pulls it out … and takes him out, takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids.

— Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), quoted by CNN, arguing the deadly Connecticut school shooting could have been halted sooner if staff at the school had been equipped with guns.

Obama Calls for Gun-Control Action

No single law or set of laws can eliminate evil from the world… but that can’t be an excuse for inaction.

— President Obama, speaking at a memorial service for victims of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

U.S. the Most Heavily Armed Country in the World

270 million

Estimated number of guns in the hands of civilians in the United States, making Americans the most heavily armed people in the world per capita, according to CNN. Yemen, a tribal nation with no history of strong central government or the rule of law, comes in a distant second.

Joe Scarborough: There are More Common Sense Americans Than There are Special Interests

It’s Both a Gun Problem and a Mental Health Problem

61

Number of mass murders, since 1982, involving firearms that have occurred throughout the United States. Of those, 43 of the killers were white males, and only one was a woman.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”