3.24.21 Bee-otches of the Day: The Republican Party

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Name: The Republican Party
Age: 167
Occupation: right-wing morons
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: not having their priorities straight (so what else is new?)

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Another day, another mass shooting. 

As we unfortunately have all heard by now, a balding man scantily clad in boxers opened fire at a King Soopers Supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, killing ten innocent people. These people were simply there to buy groceries only to die for no reason. 

The shooter, 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa used a Ruger AR 556 pistol  to assassinate his victims, including policeman Eric Talley, who shielded people from Alissa's bullets. Talley leaves behind seven children.

Alissa's victims all ranged from 20 to 65 years old, six women and four men, all white. 

According to those who knew Alissa, he had mental issues. He was a loner and had few friends. In high school, the Syrian refugee was constantly being bullied for being a Muslim. In 2018, he was charged with third degree assault on a classmate at his school. A police report stated that the classmate called him racial slurs, so Alissa walked over to him and cold-cocked him in the head. 

A police affidavit said that Alissa purchased the Ruger - which resembles an AR-15 - legally on March 16. 

What's sad is that Alissa was born a year or two after another mass shooting in Colorado: Columbine. Like Alissa, Kyle Harris and Dylan Klebold were loners with few friends. But, they had access to the guns that killed 15 people including themselves. Thirteen years later, it was James Holmes' turn, as he killed 13 people as they watched "The Dark Knight" at a theater in Aurora, CO. 

It's a sad state of affairs when people with mental issues go out and buy guns that are designed to kill others. It's one thing owning a rifle for deer hunting, but to kill others is a wake-up call that needs to be addressed. 

The question is, will the government do a damn thing about it, especially now that all three sections are run by the Democrats? 

President Biden has already cried out that it's time to toughen gun laws once and for all and I agree. Thank God for Uncle Joe. If Drumpf was still in charge, he'd probably kick all Muslims out of America. But, it would only cause more copycat crimes.

I totally agree that it's time to do something in regard to gun laws. However, gun nuts and right-winged losers alike will do what they do best: care about the peanuts while the elephants walk by. When Janet Jackson accidentally showed her breast in front of millions watching on TV, they did something. But, when another mentally disturbed person shot and killed 30 children at Sandy Hook, nothing was done.

And sadly, nothing will be done.

Right now, the Senate needs 60 votes to get any kind of gun legislation passed. Problem is, is that there's only 50 Democrats and getting 10 Repukes to jump on board with the Dems is like dragging a horse to water. Many Repukes like Ted Cruz all think that improving gun control is simply creating a road to the end of the 2nd Amendment.

Look, we didn't have AR-15s in 1776. The reality is that the right thinks that if it shoots bullets, it's a gun. But, AR-15s are designed to kill multiple people all at once. And for the way-too-many massacres that have happened in the past 20-odd years, it's the gun of choice for all those who use it.

Sadly, with the King Soopers shooting this week and the spa shootings in Atlanta last week, the Rethugs have won again. When will this madness stop? Sadly, there's no easy answer, given that our country's health system's fucked and the fact that it's easier for someone who needs help to shoot their troubles away vs. getting the help they need. 

Maybe it needs to start with us. It's sad when schoolkids look at a person of color and they make jokes about it. Some of these punks probably listened to one of Drumpf's speeches and thought that it was OK to attack this poor kid for having a weird name. The #1 cause of people getting mental issues, IMHO is other people.

The Republican Party: because unless it's in a woman's womb, people don't matter.

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