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“Hey Governor Abbott good luck with your speech to the NRA in Houston on Friday....just keep taking the gun lobby's money and don't worry about our children!!!!”

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Republicans : " Children ? Just have some more ! We'll be using them for target practice in time ". WELCOME TO TX.

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Unfortunate fact of human psychology : read or hear enough stories about inhumanity, violence, monstrosity, you start to become numb to it. Sometimes hearing about bodies piled up in morgues doesn't make a dent in our armor. THAT'S something to be concerned about - if we still have any humanity left.

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Imagine how the Ukrainians feel.

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I can only imagine. Our enemy is the ENEMY WITHIN, enabled by soulless husks of what MIGHT HAVE been passable facsimiles of human beings at some period before they swam in toxic waste.

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We can blame Trump for all our ills, and those in the World, but I believe he, and his enablers, to be that which sped up our current morass. My ‘problem’ is that of the Mass Hysteria I note. Can so many be so ignorant, so vexxed, as to believe anything presented as ‘fact,’ by a documented crook, conman and clown? Moreover, where do we go from here?

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Maybe lobotomies reducing them to brain - dead drones ISN'T such an unthinkable idea, nor making sure that they can't reproduce, or that their children can't.

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Nick, the senselessness of this terrorism by these coward bullies makes me so angry! I will never vote for anyone who defends the badly misinterpreted Second Amendment, supported the NRA, or votes against stronger gun laws as long as I live!!!

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I will never vote for a " Bible Belt " conservative. They'll hold NHL training days in HELL 1st.

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More American sadness.

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Stay tuned, folks as Texas premiers it’s newest reality show called ‘America’s Funniest Handgun Incidents”

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It makes me wish that I could travel to some alternate universe or timeline where these maniacs didn't exist or there was a nice, efficient high tech science fiction - y method to cure or rehabilitate them by merely giving them an injection or using a device that could quell such anti - social impulses without turning them into organic robots.

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My daughter lives near San Antonio and is a psychologist, I texted her not long after I heard about the shooting. She's doing crisis counseling with a parent of one of the kids. What would you say this soon after it happened. I don’t know how she can deal with it myself.

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Usually, Trumpist GOP gives the public, at large, three days to ‘get over it.’

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The Trumpist GOP can take those 3 days & stick them in that area of their bodies where only fungus can grow.....

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Yes, but reality will manifest on Friday, May 27 when the Annual NRA Conclave is scheduled to take place in Houston. Trump, and Abbott are top line speakers. Will they have the civility to Cancel, vis a vis, Uvalde, Buffalo?

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NRA Civility is blasting people with an RPG so death is pretty much instantaneous as you shatter into fiery fragments.

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Yes, but there is ‘always hope’ that some among their Gaggle, ‘get it,’ and suggest to Management the danger in maintaining an unsustainable posture.

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It's like expecting a zombie to turn down a cranium full of a fresh, still - pulsing cranium with warm brain - matter in favor of a plate of cucumber & watercress sandwiches, but yes.

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PS : Hell is too good for the majority of these sub - troglodytes.

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Let’s pray we don’t ever accept these tragedies as routine!

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I live in Denver. I remember the mass shooting in Boulder, the theater shooting in Aurora, and of course Columbine. There was Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, a little Amish(I think) school , a black church in the South, and Milwaukee. The NRA just goes on and on and on. Damn them.

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