Tim Walz says he's 'sick and tired' of prayers after Georgia school shooting
Tim Walz says he's 'sick and tired' of prayers after Georgia school shooting
VP pick Tim Walz has said he’s “sick and tired of hearing about thoughts and prayers” following the Apalachee High School shooting in Georgia.
Tim Walz has said he’s “sick and tired of hearing about thoughts and prayers” following the Apalachee High School shooting in Georgia, which left four dead.
Walz, who was named as Kamala Harris’ running mate in the race for the White House in August, spoke about the Wednesday (4 September) shooting at a campaign rally at the Highmark Amphitheater in Erie, Pennsylvania on Thursday.
He told his supporters: “We believe in the freedom to send our kids to school without being shot dead in the hall.”
“The news cycle moves on within a day,” he commented of the incident, adding that kids had returned to school feeling excited and “now we have four dead”.
This shooting in particular shows major society-level failures. The parents were victims of the opiate crisis. Society failed to treat that problem at an appropriate level when it first cropped up and they failed to claw back the profits pharmaceutical companies made off creating addicts. We failed to fund school mental health services that could have helped a child who everyone knew was struggling. Society failed to recognize and address the domestic violence situation, failed to intervene when the child was being raised by addicts, and failed to remove guns from such a volatile situation. There are so many levels on which any significant intervention could have prevented this chain of events.
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Walz's response to this is in very stark contrast to his rival Vance here. Vance gave a shockingly tone-deaf, "It's a fact of life" response that spits in the face of the victims and their families. It shows a fundamental lack of empathy that borders on cruelty (which might be the point).
Thots 'n Pears can only go so far, in this case not far at all.
I used to be lukewarm on the issue of gun control, ya know.. "Yes, it's a tragedy.. but, we've got a second amendment, just increase security in schools or something."
But... eventually it got to the point where I realized I felt nothing hearing about the dead kids and the constant shootings. I was just completely numb to it, and that's when I realized "Oh shit..."
When I found that the death of children wasn't something that even made me flinch anymore, I realized.... That even if we have to destroy every gun in the West, something has to be done.
"They'll just use knives"
And when you can kill as many people with a knife in as short of a time as an AR-15, that's when I'll give a shit about knives.
PS: I totally call it the Assault Rifle 15. I know it's the "Arma Rite 15" or whatever, but it pisses conservatives off when I get it wrong intentionally.
I don't know if anyone needed a harmless (slightly dark) laugh on the subject, but I recently played an indie PnC game called "3 Minutes to Midnight" with a joke around this. You open a wall medical kit, and there are sheets of paper inside, which read "Thoughts and prayers".
I'm sure Fox News is already spinning it out of context as "Tim Walz is sick and tired of prayer and is planning on banning public & private prayer!"
Look how far you've let this charade go, republicans... You know you have quiet moments where you are fully aware that you're just trapped in this irrational hate machine. This is literally a child named after a gun shooting other children to death. And you still just sit there, hiding in your full cowardice and not admitting outwardly that you chose the wrong path. You're a fucking disgrace.
In the meantime, Trump is shrieking to his MAGA idiots about the completely fake "danger" of letting your kids go to school and returning home with a sex change operation
There is literally no way to do less.... Than hopes and prayers
It is a total abdication of responsibility for fixing a problem
These sicko republicans, they have no idea what the second amendment means, which means they are messing this up for all of us. I’ve always believed in a strong 2nd amendment which means I want a legal tank with ammo in a secure location in my back yard. These republifucker weirdos don’t even know what the second amendment means. If I have to park my tank downtown so be it, but I want to have a tank with ammo in a secure location, same should go for these assault rifles, etc. we need a well regulated militia which means we don’t get to keep weapons unlocked in our homes willy nilly
Oh Tim, there's nothing that can be done!
Now where did I put my AR-14 tie pin so I can stand in solidarity with the real victims...
So they want to ban handguns, right?
