Still Going

Nope. pic.twitter.com/bs1uiBwgYl

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 7, 2023

Every other industrialized country has figured out the solution to this problem and the reason why we can’t is not the second amendment but because of people like you.
The solution is to keep people like you out of power. Then more lives will be saved.

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) May 7, 2023

A bullet from an assault weapon can travel nearly triple the speed of sound. It liquefies tissue and vaporizes bone. It destroys children’s faces. Last year 99% of House republicans voted no to banning war weapons like the one used at a Texas mall yesterday. pic.twitter.com/1HWUWx1UYm

— Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BillPascrell) May 7, 2023

Weird that they didn't think prayer would handle that one.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 7, 2023

Blue check replies on point. pic.twitter.com/VwcUh1xDiE

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 7, 2023

Yeah, but what does Spainhouer know?

https://t.co/k2utPoHJGQ pic.twitter.com/nXQOVmPRSK

— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) May 7, 2023

Greg Abbott on Fox News Sunday accidentally makes a case for stronger federal gun control: "I think that the state in which the largest number of victims occurred this year is in California, where they have very tough gun laws." pic.twitter.com/Xh6FgA4EvJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 7, 2023

Gotta keep pushing.

We need everyone to have guns to protect us from everyone having guns. Makes perfect sense.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 7, 2023

The problem with getting attention is…getting attention.

Rep. Keith Self: “Really I would like to stay away from the politics today …” https://t.co/QWaUNIsGst pic.twitter.com/w29dPEAlq3

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 7, 2023

Among the many, many problems with this preposterous sentiment is the massive chasm between what even *this* #SCOTUS thinks the Second Amendment protects and the laxity of gun control regulations here in Texas.

There’s plenty the lege *could* constitutionally do—if it wanted to. https://t.co/9z6De6W06o

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) May 7, 2023

“We shouldn’t advocate for—and pass—laws that would make us safer because the courts *might* strike them down” is just not a reasonable argument for *any* elected official, let alone those in the Texas legislature given its … casual … relationship with the federal Constitution.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) May 7, 2023

15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, 

 I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, 

 I am not listening. 

Your hands are full of blood!

 16 Wash and make yourselves clean. 

 Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. 

17 Learn to do right; seek justice. 

 Defend the oppressed.

Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

Isaiah 1:15-17

Taken out of context, but then again, so are “thoughts and prayers.” That’s a sentiment meant to destroy context. But the context is justice. It is the oppressed (who is oppressed if not the victims and their families?). It’s literally the cause of the fatherless (and motherless), and the case of the widow.

So, not entirely out of context.