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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbreak.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; celebaholes; johncommiecamp; johncougar; johncougarmelonhead; johnmelonhead; johnnycougar; mellencamp; moron; music; nra; richpeople; secondamendment
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Tweet at link. John Mellonheadwants wants to see dead kids. As if celebs who get off sexualizing children isn't bad enough. Beyond perverted.
1 posted on 02/20/2024 11:04:14 AM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

The problem is a general breakdown in society.

What does he propose to do about that? Make government the master of everything?


3 posted on 02/20/2024 11:05:47 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: EEGator

AND the illegal drugs coming through the border...


4 posted on 02/20/2024 11:06:46 AM PST by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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To: skinny old man

Over 100k a year.


5 posted on 02/20/2024 11:07:14 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

JDAM accurate- boom!


6 posted on 02/20/2024 11:08:03 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Impala64ssa

It’s the culture that doesn’t respect life, the bonds of family, teaching that life has no meaning, confusing people as to who they are, etc. that has been fomented by his votes for Leftist politicians and the results of these policies on corrupting minds that has lead to these events.


7 posted on 02/20/2024 11:08:48 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Impala64ssa

Quite right! Excuse me for being blunt; but John “Mellonhead” GFY!


8 posted on 02/20/2024 11:09:09 AM PST by old school (,)
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To: Impala64ssa

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


9 posted on 02/20/2024 11:09:16 AM PST by kiryandil
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To: Impala64ssa

I see your random crazy gun violence and raise you the systematic murder of citizens by a ruthless Government which has stripped away its citizens guns. With all the current weaponization of Law Enforcement , making them the only owner of firearms is getting scarier every day.


10 posted on 02/20/2024 11:09:22 AM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: Impala64ssa

I’d offer my opinion, too, but apparently you have to be a washed up has-been to be heard in public issues, so I’ll keep my opinions to myself


11 posted on 02/20/2024 11:09:41 AM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Show the abortions then


12 posted on 02/20/2024 11:09:52 AM PST by Beowulf9
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That narrative would end quickly when the ethnicity of the "dead children" is shown.

Of course the rats would exclude all deaths from their inner city paradises.

13 posted on 02/20/2024 11:10:21 AM PST by pfflier
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To: Impala64ssa

What about the wake of all of BiXiden’s Illegals?

The wake of the Billion$ poured into Ukraine?


14 posted on 02/20/2024 11:11:03 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Impala64ssa

Let me know when they actually incarcerate the people who are killing the children with guns, instead of releasing them to kill again.


15 posted on 02/20/2024 11:11:04 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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Yeah- can’t stand mellenkampf— what a poseur, right alongside his copycat subject springsteen. sorry, an opinion but based on the sound the two have tried to ping off each other to the “listening” public.

Mellonhead- love it. Like a made up bluesman’s stage name.

Wonder how “cougar” got in there as a middle name, but don’t care, there are several real pickers who matter so much more, legends, in fact.


16 posted on 02/20/2024 11:11:04 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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This shitbag had the video of the negro dancing with the white woman when I was kid. So edgy, John. He’s talks a lot of shit for being 5’6”.


17 posted on 02/20/2024 11:11:36 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Impala64ssa

Yes I agree.
Show the weekly death toll from the inner city ant hills.
Show thier faces, ages, rap sheets, culminative time served, gang affiliations, All of it.
Let’s clear the decks once and for all.


18 posted on 02/20/2024 11:11:38 AM PST by TexasM1A (GLASS HAMAS)
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To: EEGator

Correct. If Melon head wants to see dead children, then turn on the Chicago news anytime. Plenty of dead black children every day.


19 posted on 02/20/2024 11:11:45 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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Ho hum, another celebrity who is obviously ignorant of the fact that when gun clubs were quite common in high school, there was little or no violence whatsoever. What changed John ?
20 posted on 02/20/2024 11:11:54 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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