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Will hundreds killed and hurt by gunfire in Las Vegas matter to Trump and lawmakers?(Barf alert)
Washington Post ^ | October 2nd 2017 | Petula Dvorak

Posted on 10/04/2017 6:39:09 PM PDT by Ennis85

Maybe this time will be different. Maybe the sheer number of people killed and injured at a country music festival in Las Vegas — at least 59 dead and more than 500 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history — will finally lead to some common-sense restrictions on guns.

Because the age and innocence of the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 first-graders held up their hands to try to shield themselves from the gunfire in their classroom five years ago, didn’t make a difference.

Because the transformation of the bucolic Virginia Tech campus into a killing field for 32 promising young people and their professors 10 years ago didn’t make a difference.

Because the 12 people slaughtered in the darkness of an Aurora, Colo., movie theater five years ago didn’t make a difference.

Because the nine people gunned down by a white supremacist during a Bible study at a Charleston, S.C., church two years ago didn’t make a difference.

Because a Republican lawmaker being shot during a congressional baseball practice in June — Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) was able to return to work only last week — didn’t make a difference.

President Trump didn’t talk about the real American carnage at his inauguration, which happens before our eyes every day. This year alone, more than 11,700 people have been killed by gunfire. As my colleague John Woodrow Cox reported last month, almost two dozen children are shot every day in the United States.

But those with the power to stop the killing have no interest in doing so.

“I will never, ever infringe on the right of people to keep and bear arms,” our president vowed in a speech to the National Rifle Association at its national conference this year.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: banglist; lasvegas; shooting; trump
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To: Ennis85

They should matter to Trump because those killed will all be voting for his opponent in the 2020 election!


21 posted on 10/04/2017 6:56:14 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Destroyer Sailor

You stand against evil, that’s what you do.


22 posted on 10/04/2017 7:15:18 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

Did hundreds of Blacks killed and injured, and still being killed and injured in Shitcago matter to Obama or the Black lawmakers???


23 posted on 10/04/2017 7:26:15 PM PDT by wetgundog (Mainstream Media, Lying Liars Lying.)
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To: Ouderkirk

Cut back on Pork!


24 posted on 10/04/2017 7:26:37 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Ouderkirk

Giant butter face.


25 posted on 10/04/2017 7:26:43 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Ennis85
Did the 50 plus killed in Chicago every weekend matter to Obama and the Democrats ?
26 posted on 10/04/2017 7:43:20 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: Ennis85

I think the only logical response is to call for the banning of Marxist instruction in all universities that receive federal funding.


27 posted on 10/04/2017 7:48:21 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Hitlers Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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To: All

I think this is more about the abject fear of the left of voters in general. The left is the enemy of the people and the fact that Trump actually won is pure fear in their hearts.


28 posted on 10/04/2017 7:52:02 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: hawkaw
I would like to know what common sense gun restrictions look like.

I'd like to know what those are how they would have stopped this latest madman.

29 posted on 10/04/2017 7:56:21 PM PDT by umgud
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To: Ennis85

This woman is one of two of the Wash. Post’s METRO section “Commentator” writers and is a hardcore leftist despite the fact that she says her family left a Communist Bloc country (details are lacking right now).

She writes well in terms of the use of the English language and sentence construction, but she is so full of leftist crap that she could easily fertilize the North 40 states, not just acres.

Just read this or almost any other of her columns and you will see immediately that she is full of leftist crap, which is a prerequisite for writing for the Wash. Post, Jeff Bezo’s version of Pravda and TASS combined.


30 posted on 10/04/2017 8:12:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Ennis85

Because all those false-flag attacks didn’t fool enough people. Because all those attacks by Democrats didn’t terrorize enough people. Because all the demonizing of white people didn’t intimidate enough people.

Because “well-regulated” doesn’t mean “controlled by the government.” It means “well-equipped.”


31 posted on 10/04/2017 9:36:32 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hxxXAC3m1eQ)
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To: Ennis85

How convenient - Trump now to blame for all the gun killings in history - despite the fact that nobody else solved the problem and he hasn’t changed any laws to make it easier for the evil ones......


32 posted on 10/05/2017 3:10:49 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Ennis85

Bitter leftoid...

...pals with Martina Navratilova.

33 posted on 10/05/2017 5:23:38 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Damn, that’s scary


34 posted on 10/05/2017 5:26:15 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Ennis85

Will thousands killed and assaulted and robbed each year by illegal aliens matter to liberals??


35 posted on 10/05/2017 6:00:49 AM PDT by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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