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"Let’s stop playing silly political games. Show the carnage on the news. Show the American people the dead children": John Mellencamp issues powerful statement calling for gun control in America
News Break ^ | 2/19/24 | Paul Brannigan

Posted on 02/20/2024 11:04:14 AM PST by Impala64ssa

John Mellencamp has issued a blunt, powerful statement calling for gun control in America.

Posting on his social media channels, the 72-year-old singer/songwriter writes, "Excuse me for stating the obvious truth. I do so out of love for this country and the pain of learning, once again, that children have been killed by gun violence.

"If we as a country want to find the collective will within ourselves to change our gun laws, let’s stop playing silly political games. Show the carnage on the news. Show the American people the dead children and others who have been struck down. Show us what guns and bullets can do to the human body.

The angry comments beneath Mellencamp's statement are an indication of just how badly the issue of gun control divides US citizens.

One comment reads, "When I see what guns can do to children it makes me want to buy another gun to protect children from such carnage."

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To: skinny old man
 
 
Along with invaders from martial cultures of dubious backgrounds.
 
 

21 posted on 02/20/2024 11:12:18 AM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Show the shooter for every instance and identify illegals and gang affiliation.

Suddenly there’ll be a call for tough enforcement and civilian ownership. “Oops.”


22 posted on 02/20/2024 11:12:49 AM PST by No.6
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To: Impala64ssa
He wants to see dead children, and what happens when a population doesn't have guns to defend themselves, multiply this by over a Million Mr Mellencamp. They shot them, starved them, threw them off buildings... Yes, gun violence is tragic, but disarming is not the answer.
23 posted on 02/20/2024 11:13:21 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: kiryandil

Rich people telling us that we shouldn’t guns - from behind their armed bodyguards and security.

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Yep. I’m sure melloncamp things that disarming the the law-abiding and leaving them in the hands of criminals will make society better.

I don’t know if I had a lot of respect for mr. “small town” because I’m always cynical about any ‘celebrity’, but here is another rich, insulated moron who probably lives far away from the violence or in a gated community, and travels with protection.


24 posted on 02/20/2024 11:13:38 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Impala64ssa

Sounds like a little ditty about Jack and dyin’


25 posted on 02/20/2024 11:14:13 AM PST by Stosh
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To: Beowulf9

Correct. The number of abortions vs children dead from guns is not even comparable.


26 posted on 02/20/2024 11:14:43 AM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Why should anyone listen to Melloncamp. Who the hell is he? His opinions are no more important or valid than some homeless guy on the street.


27 posted on 02/20/2024 11:15:05 AM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: HamiltonJay

28 posted on 02/20/2024 11:15:11 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Impala64ssa

Black criminals will all turn in their guns because white celebrities tell them to...

Lol.


29 posted on 02/20/2024 11:15:33 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Impala64ssa
It's cultural decay mellon-head...

AKA "YOUR" people

(leftist hollywood, leftist music industry, leftist perverts....).

30 posted on 02/20/2024 11:15:56 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: Impala64ssa

Show pictures of innocent people who were killed by rapists, people killed by strangulation, drug overdoses, alcohol and marijuana traffic “accidents”, people stabbed to death, drug overdoses, people killed by medical “errors”, and mostly people killed because they couldn’t protect themselves with a firearm(especially women and children).

John Mellencamp is officially, a short sighted, emotionally controlled person. Not fit for any overseeing role. Hopefully, he will learn how to make sure others can protect themselves from people who try to kill them, because he certainly can’t. Life doesn’t always go on, John.


31 posted on 02/20/2024 11:16:22 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: EEGator

To use it in Mellencamp’s lingo, we have too many single Diane’s raising kids without Jack after the fun in the “backseat of Jackie’s car”. People wouldn’t murder so much if we let the “Bible Belt come and save our souls”.


32 posted on 02/20/2024 11:16:33 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Let’s do this for ALL the murdered children. The babies killed in the womb will quickly overwhelm this.


33 posted on 02/20/2024 11:17:36 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Impala64ssa

Let the people out in TV Land see the ethnicity of the shooters.


34 posted on 02/20/2024 11:18:05 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Beowulf9

The only reason TV Networks and Online video web sites won’t show dead bodies is because advertisers won’t buy advertising with them. YouTube is now censoring WWI and WWII documentaries if they even show a small part of a dead body in a picture or video.


35 posted on 02/20/2024 11:20:03 AM PST by Pol-92064
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To: kiryandil

Yup. Mellancamp lives on the exclusive, private Daufuskie Island off of Hilton Head. Pretty safe over there. Instead of the victims, the media should broadcast pictures of the perps. It would be nice to know who is killing the kids.


36 posted on 02/20/2024 11:21:13 AM PST by DeplorablePaul (ll)
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To: Impala64ssa

American Fool.


37 posted on 02/20/2024 11:21:48 AM PST by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: Impala64ssa

Teens aren’t children.


38 posted on 02/20/2024 11:22:24 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: TexasM1A

“faces, ages, rap sheets, culminative time served, gang affiliations,”

ya ... I don’t think they want to do that ...

“dead children and others who have been struck down.”

“dead children” sounds so much simpler....
than tatted up gang banging thug...... But I agree , lets put the info out there and see where all this “gun” violence is.

I don’t think “gun” is the root word they need to use.


39 posted on 02/20/2024 11:25:38 AM PST by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: Impala64ssa

Shut up and sing, Mellonhead.


40 posted on 02/20/2024 11:25:56 AM PST by SkiKnee
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