Please stop asking me to address gun violence, I'm busy banning books

[Punch]

Punch said:

A brutal satirical piece that makes Republican priorities look not only foolish but criminal.

"Ban guns? We're busy banning books, thank you very much"

“You guys are worried about banning books — dead kids can’t read.”


Please stop asking me to address gun violence, I'm busy banning books (msn.com)

Hello, I’m a Republican lawmaker, and while I’m heartbroken over Monday's horrific shooting in Nashville, I’d appreciate it if people would stop asking me to do something to prevent such tragedies from happening again.
I’m a busy person, and there are many important issues I and my colleagues are addressing in our quest to make the world a safe place for children. For example, books. They are often bad. Lawmakers like myself at the local, state and federal level are doing everything we can to make sure dangerous books don’t wind up in the hands of children.
How could you even suggest we could do something useless by banning assault weapons like the one used this week to murder three children and three adults at The Covenant School when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called  "And Tango Makes Three"? That book involves gay penguins raising a chick, and it might inspire a child who has not been killed in a school shooting to think it’s OK for two people who love each other to form a family. Let’s get our priorities straight, shall we? I have colleagues in Missouri who, right now, are bravely working to defund the states libraries, known repositories of potentially deadly (if a bookshelf falls on you) books.
We can't stop gun violence. But we can stop dangerous education.


 
 
 

[RebelGator]

RebelGator said: You might think whether or not that book contributed to the mental illness that manifested itself in the Nashville killings. In your quest to normalize deviant behavior, you also played a part in the atrocity.

[Redheaded Stranger]

Redheaded Stranger said:

You might think whether or not that book contributed to the mental illness that manifested itself in the Nashville killings. In your quest to normalize deviant behavior, you also played a part in the atrocity.

That would require accepting the idea that mass shootings are a societal problem, and not a gun problem, and that doesn't fit the agenda.


 

[RebelGator]

RebelGator said:

That would require accepting the idea that mass shootings are a societal problem, and not a gun problem, and that doesn't fit the agenda.

Mental illness is the problem as the OP demonstrates......his brain is misfiring, the same way a gun in an idiot's hand can do.

[Redheaded Stranger]

Redheaded Stranger said:

Mental illness is the problem as the OP demonstrates......his brain is misfiring, the same way a gun in an idiot's hand can do.

20 years ago my kid's had a dress code in public schools, now they have this...


 
... and they wonder why the kids are so screwed up.

 

[Beekeeper]

Beekeeper said:

A brutal satirical piece that makes Republican priorities look not only foolish but criminal.

"Ban guns? We're busy banning books, thank you very much"

“You guys are worried about banning books — dead kids can’t read.”

Please stop asking me to address gun violence, I'm busy banning books (msn.com)

Hello, I’m a Republican lawmaker, and while I’m heartbroken over Monday's horrific shooting in Nashville, I’d appreciate it if people would stop asking me to do something to prevent such tragedies from happening again.
I’m a busy person, and there are many important issues I and my colleagues are addressing in our quest to make the world a safe place for children. For example, books. They are often bad. Lawmakers like myself at the local, state and federal level are doing everything we can to make sure dangerous books don’t wind up in the hands of children.
How could you even suggest we could do something useless by banning assault weapons like the one used this week to murder three children and three adults at The Covenant School when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called  "And Tango Makes Three"? That book involves gay penguins raising a chick, and it might inspire a child who has not been killed in a school shooting to think it’s OK for two people who love each other to form a family. Let’s get our priorities straight, shall we? I have colleagues in Missouri who, right now, are bravely working to defund the states libraries, known repositories of potentially deadly (if a bookshelf falls on you) books.
We can't stop gun violence. But we can stop dangerous education.

A ROCK in the hands of a BAD PERSON killed Able.

A ROCK in the hands of a GOOD PERSON killed Goliath.

IT'S NOT THE ROCK. MORON!!

[Nostradamus' omh]

Nostradamus' omh said:

A brutal satirical piece that makes Republican priorities look not only foolish but criminal.

"Ban guns? We're busy banning books, thank you very much"

“You guys are worried about banning books — dead kids can’t read.”


Please stop asking me to address gun violence, I'm busy banning books (msn.com)

Hello, I’m a Republican lawmaker, and while I’m heartbroken over Monday's horrific shooting in Nashville, I’d appreciate it if people would stop asking me to do something to prevent such tragedies from happening again.
I’m a busy person, and there are many important issues I and my colleagues are addressing in our quest to make the world a safe place for children. For example, books. They are often bad. Lawmakers like myself at the local, state and federal level are doing everything we can to make sure dangerous books don’t wind up in the hands of children.
How could you even suggest we could do something useless by banning assault weapons like the one used this week to murder three children and three adults at The Covenant School when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called  "And Tango Makes Three"? That book involves gay penguins raising a chick, and it might inspire a child who has not been killed in a school shooting to think it’s OK for two people who love each other to form a family. Let’s get our priorities straight, shall we? I have colleagues in Missouri who, right now, are bravely working to defund the states libraries, known repositories of potentially deadly (if a bookshelf falls on you) books.
We can't stop gun violence. But we can stop dangerous education.


 
 
 

Freedom of expression was designed to stop social consensus corrupting each great great grandchild added to the species froward as being added now leaving all 5 generation gaps corrupted completely until extinction happens, and in the current social menality is within this decade.

[ROG62]

ROG62 said:

A brutal satirical piece that makes Republican priorities look not only foolish but criminal.

"Ban guns? We're busy banning books, thank you very much"

“You guys are worried about banning books — dead kids can’t read.”

Please stop asking me to address gun violence, I'm busy banning books (msn.com)

Hello, I’m a Republican lawmaker, and while I’m heartbroken over Monday's horrific shooting in Nashville, I’d appreciate it if people would stop asking me to do something to prevent such tragedies from happening again.
I’m a busy person, and there are many important issues I and my colleagues are addressing in our quest to make the world a safe place for children. For example, books. They are often bad. Lawmakers like myself at the local, state and federal level are doing everything we can to make sure dangerous books don’t wind up in the hands of children.
How could you even suggest we could do something useless by banning assault weapons like the one used this week to murder three children and three adults at The Covenant School when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called  "And Tango Makes Three"? That book involves gay penguins raising a chick, and it might inspire a child who has not been killed in a school shooting to think it’s OK for two people who love each other to form a family. Let’s get our priorities straight, shall we? I have colleagues in Missouri who, right now, are bravely working to defund the states libraries, known repositories of potentially deadly (if a bookshelf falls on you) books.
We can't stop gun violence. But we can stop dangerous education.

The books, failed family unit along with the 60 year degrading of our now failed education system was the reaping...we are now sowing what we've reaped...
 
 

[ConsRule]

ConsRule said: Since people, especially liberals, love saying "words have meanings" let me point out the definition of 'ban" is "officially or legally prohibit". For something to be banned, it cannot be legally available in any form or through any method. Therefore...liberals...please provide the title of one book that has been legally prohibit in any library (controlled by any government entity), cannot be purchased from any retail outlet (physical or online) and cannot be purchased in digital form and read from an electronic device.

FYI...you cannot name one. No book has been banned by republicans.

You can continue lying now.

[Squatchman]

Squatchman said: Nobody ever said Republicans are big on education.

[Nostradamus' omh]

Nostradamus' omh said:

Nobody ever said Republicans are big on education.

what is being taught?

hope, faith, charity, or understanding spontaneously alive, simultaneously here eternally separated by being a unique reproduction occupying space now.

[Vegas]

Vegas said:

Nobody ever said Republicans are big on liberal indoctrination.

Fixed it for you. You are welcome. 

[Squatchman]

Squatchman said:

Fixed it for you. You are welcome.

  I wouldn't have taken you for one that uses 3rd grade tactics.
 Guess it was just a matter of time before you tapped into your inner Vegasgiants.
 

[Vegas]

Vegas said:

  I wouldn't have taken you for one that uses 3rd grade tactics.
 Guess it was just a matter of time before you tapped into your inner Vegasgiants.

Oh please. Look at what forum you are in.

[Lincoln Nebraska]

Lincoln Nebraska said: Who is banning books? Evidence?

[Punch]

Punch said:

You might think whether or not that book contributed to the mental illness that manifested itself in the Nashville killings. In your quest to normalize deviant behavior, you also played a part in the atrocity.

I never said I want *** books in the library. In fact, I posted a thread specifically about it. BUT, you guys are ignoring a large part of the equation. That is true whether you want to believe it or not.

[Punch]

Punch said:

That would require accepting the idea that mass shootings are a societal problem, and not a gun problem, and that doesn't fit the agenda.

It is both. That is the truth that cons can't accept.

[Warcok]

Warcok said:

You left out the part where you are also tearing down statues of historical figures.

[Punch]

Punch said:

You left out the part where you are also tearing down statues of historical figures.

I'm not in favor of that either. I damned ISIS for the same thing. They destroy WORLD historical sites because they 'offend' Islam. **** people who are afraid to acknowledge history.

[Redheaded Stranger]

Redheaded Stranger said:

It is both. That is the truth that cons can't accept.

What has changed in this Country in the last few decades that has lead to the increase in mass shootings?

It isn't the guns, because they have been here since it's founding.

​​Guns are inanimate objects.