"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

[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."

[Osage Orange]

Alfred E. Neuman,,,for POTUS

[FamiliarFace]

I see what you did there.

[FamiliarFace]

Yes, it’s like Taylor Swift’s opinion. Who cares what these people think?

[P-Marlowe]

Just show him pictures from the holocaust of children murdered by governments that took guns from the people.

[FatherofFive]

Show the abortions then

Yeah, partial birth

[asformeandformyhouse]

But what does his ‘cougar’ want?

[Trailerpark Badass]

Better yet, show pictures of the shooters. See how fast that idea disappears.

[kiryandil]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4218762/posts?page=68#68

[Impala64ssa]

...when gun clubs were quite common in high school,
My dad went to Columbus HS in daBronx. Like many others in NYC they had a rifle club. An area of the basement, the under the gym was used as a range.
When I grew up in Rockland City there were Black kids in Hillburn who'd walk along Rt59 carrying .22s. In spite of race relations being what they were nobody gave it a second thought. They were making their way into the woods to hunt small game, it was no big deal.

[Godzilla]

Want the public to see things, how about public executions of murders

[Big Red Badger]

Governments Incinerated Millions.
.
Never Again

[FLT-bird]

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

That's it exactly. They don't hate guns. They hate YOU having guns. They think they should have all the guns and the lowly peasants should be defenseless.

[John S Mosby]

Yeah- thought so in retrospect. Thanks, FRiend. Really can’t stand this dud’s music- back when studio pals called him derogatory “strummer/slammer and raspy voice talk/singer”.
When in doubt crank up the distortion on the guitar.

[lurk]

A cougar kills on average one deer per week, so, stones and glass houses.

The left on guns is like first graders and physics. They’re never going to get it.

[John S Mosby]

Sampling of the comments in reply to this poseur:

“let’s show the bodies of those who willingly surrendered their arms to tyrants that mass murdered unarmed civilians afterwards.. let’s just start with Stalin and Mao..”

“Another rich man that doesn’t believe in the constitution of the United States and yet he was free to sing his songs and take people’s money”

“no Let’s show what happens to a country that gives up its fire arms. Let’s show what happens to a country that because of the most dangerous disease known to man. Were able to virtually imprison their population because they gave up their firearms what happens to a country that unanimously decides to seize its firearms from its people. Let’s show what happens when the country that’s been deleted of its firearms comes in to competition with its tyrannical government. Because they think they know better.”

“It’s not about gun control. A gun is just an object. The political purpose of displaying these stories is for gun confiscation. How do you disarm the public as to better control them ? Use children. I’m very sorry for the deaths. I lost a daughter myself . Not this way. It loss is loss. We cannot hold everyone guilty because of a few. Lest we be In prison ourselves for things we didn’t do...”

[John S Mosby]

Also, only electric golf carts. Daufuskie was a slave quarters island, when Hilton Head’s land was a large farm, pre-1850’s.

Lovely place, full of some obvious rich liars of the first order. Their own little world, and this one pretending to be a tough guy... NOT!

[PubliusMM]

Uh, John...this ain’t a gun problem. It’s a people problem; particularly a feral people problem.

[kiryandil]

Daufuskie was a slave quarters island, when Hilton Head’s land was a large farm, pre-1850’s.

Ah! To control incipient slave revolts.

Now, it's to keep them out.

[NorthMountain]

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.

Indeed.

It's long past time to REPEAL them.

All.

Of.

Them.

We the People are armed.

Get used to it.

[grobdriver]

Does he mean all the black gang members who were too slow on the draw?