the manifesto of the el paso shooter reads like the comments on an instapundit blog post (which knoxviews still links to on the sidebar), the replies on a tim burchett tweet, or a tucker carlson monologue.

Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.

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@TimBurchett: "The senseless shootings in Texas, Ohio and the 56 folks who were shot this weekend in Chicago are all horrible and must be condemned...."

we all see the thought process going on here, correct?

@RepCohen: "You want to shoot an assault weapon? Go to Afghanistan or Iraq! Enlist!"

Cohen deleted his tweet, Burchett's is still up.

Gun control folks have been chattering at each other for some time now. Background noise. Sandy Hook should have made that clear. And back then we had a President who was running around gleefully politicizing it.

There are only nine (9) comments on recent mass shootings and 27 comments on the Mayor's race. Where are your priorities? Regulate gun on performance, not looks. Let us debate the issue of hollow point bullets, limit the caliber of bullets a carry permit holder can use.

Ohio shooter's rifle and 100 round drum magazine:

He was able to kill nine people and wound 26 more in 30 seconds before law enforcement officers killed him.

The issue is not whether or not people have the right to keep and bear arms, but rather, what constitutes a well regulated militia and whether or not any particular gun owner falls within those parameters.

How well regulated is a society in which any deranged idiot can by a gun and shoot up a Walmart?

Gov. Bill Lee not ready to do anything:

"I haven't analyzed [red-flag laws] yet, but it's early for us to talk about which direction we want to go," Lee said. "But we want to take action."

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I'm a law abiding conceal permit holder. We can create all the laws we want to but it is not going to keep someone from killing someone if they are set on doing that. Do you remember Timothy McVeah in the 90's? He killed over 150 people without a gun. There needs to be a mechanism in place to help keep the mentally ill from getting fire arms without impeding my ability to purchase a gun if that is what I desire to do.
We need common sense laws and not knee jerk reactions to this problem.

The argument erupted between two patrons near a customer service desk. Both pulled out guns, and one fired, Gautreaux said.

A bystander was shot in a Louisiana Walmart during a fight between two other men, sheriff says

Buttigieg on Chris Matthews show: water balloons to nuclear weapons, there has to be a line somewhere.

Trump followed Tim Burchett's conspiracy dog whistles to his very excited twitter followers (Tim has 4 tweets about Epstein in 24hrs -- one before and three after his death) with his own megaphone-- retweeting a video explicitly promoting the #ClintonBodyCount theory of Epstein's recent demise.