In Georgia, school has barely started and already there is a school shooting with “AR-style weapon” that killed four and injured many more. I put this right at the feet of MAGA and the right wing, because before the “tea party” and later “MAGA”, school shootings or any major gun violence spurred changes in laws. But after the Sandy Hook shooting, the right sold their soul to politics, essentially saying that mass shooters have a right to the most deadly weapons available and that the 2nd amendment curtails our ability to limit them or who owns them.
To me, this decision was a clear change–saying essentially that no matter what happens, conservatives and right-wingers cannot be influenced or changed or made to feel guilt or shame. And when asked what they would do to help solve the problem, it’s either completely unserious or dystopian.
On the unserious side they say that mass shootings are caused by “mental health”, of course with no explanation. But is mental health then funded or even addressed? No, because it’s just as unserious as “thoughts and prayers.”
On the dystopian side, you have “active shooter drills”, arming the teachers, and bulletproof backpacks. Really. Not make it more difficult for shooters, but more expensive for regular students.
I’ll be happy when this election is over so that either a) MAGA loses the election and then starts on a slow decline taking what’s left of Republicans with them or b) they take over the country, never to let free and fair elections decide our leaders again.
I’m just hoping that I get my friends and family back who I’ve lost to MAGA. Although it will be hard to ever take them seriously in the future.