CNN’s Jake Tapper joins Stephen to discuss America’s options for gun control legislation in the wake of the latest school shooting, and to consider who the news media is protecting when choosing not to air gruesome images from these attacks. #Colbert #TheLead #JakeTapper
Bet raw money the mass shooters are trumpards. Just saying. There’s few others who are that far out of touch with reality.
ReplyThere are few others as self centered. And there are few others who have a delusional sense of self worth and ill gotten “righteousness” as every single trumpard has.
Maybe the shooters are simply insane. Maybe.
In texas we had to report the mentally ill to (forget who). In california also, but the incompetent psych manager, would give the form to the patient to send in. THe forms stated the hospital needed to fill it out and send it, not the patient. However, i never saw that form at the ca state hosp.
ReplyMost of these men or kids don’t have jobs where are they getting the money to buy these guns
ReplyThat’s utter trash it’s the voters that influence the minds of the politicians. The Republican politicians and the gun lobbyists that put money in their pockets are the reason they don’t shift or make a move in sensible gun legislation, money talks bullshit walks. How can you say it’s Republican voters when on your own news channel you have reported that over 90% of Americans want gun reform?
ReplyTapper is a soft nothing on what’s needed for gun legislation. Just call him a marshmallow.
ReplyI AM A VOTER
ReplyCornyn gets more NRA money than any other Senator. His tally is near 2/3ds of a million dollars.. The mass killer age 18 to 21 are not men. They are at most adolescents, armed beyond their capacity to comprehend. In Israel where they teach all 18 year old to handle weapons of war are not allowed to own any gun until they are at least 27, and then only if they qualify.
ReplyMaybe the media needs to show the gruesomeness
ReplyI’m not as enchanted with the Parkland kids. They kept turning up on TV telling everyone they knew the guy would be a shooter, they could totally tell. And they may have had solid reason for it, but in the clips on the news all you ever heard was that they could tell he was gonna shoot up the school and no one listened. Maybe the new stations are at fault in that, cutting the clip short, I dunno. But they put a lot of kids at risk across the country with that minimal approach.
See, at about that time my son had been pulled from his high school (by us, with their help) to take up independent study, because he couldn’t focus. He felt harassed in all of his classes. He’d been in special ed and the kids just couldn’t let that go. He had the nickname “school shooter.” He wrote his birth date on a white board once and rumors exploded all over the school that he had written that date because he planned to do something terrible that day. They had to freaking call all the parents to say the situation was under control! And nothing had even happened. The office staff knew it, but the students had made up their minds.
If you asked those kids at his school, they’d say they knew he’d be a school shooter, you could tell, everyone knew, etc. And after Parkland, after what those kids kept saying on camera, people might have believed them. About my son, who doesn’t do anything violent outside of video games. Who has never seen a gun in person. Who just thought maybe someone might give a damn about his birthday. Clueless, sure. He was grumpy at school, yeah. But not a killer.
Every time something like this happens, another fringe element of society gets the finger of blame pointed at them. I’m all for blaming white supremacists, but Autistic kids? That was Sandy Hook. Bullying victims? That was Columbine. And Parkland pointed, by way of example, to every kid who just didn’t fit into the inner circle. More outcasts and loners must have been crapping their pants after that. Too afraid to go to school, where they were probably already bullied, because now the kids there had one more reason to single them out. Outsiders and loners become school shooters. The Parkland kids said so.
ReplySTOP VOTING FOR CORPORATISTS!
ReplySTOP CONSUMING CORPORATE MEDIA!
You are discussing putting lipstick on a pig with watered down gun laws that do nothing. Semi-auto guns need a license on valid need only. Suburban people do not need Semi-auto.
ReplyEven farmers do not need Semi-auto most of the time.
Clubs can keep keep them at the range.
Red flag is 18 year old buying these weapons and 100s of rounds of ammo .
ReplyThe Republicans have so strengthened the minority NRA gun lobby/ terrorists much as they’re doing with Trump Republicans where they are allowing a minority to dictate to the majority this is a minority that is dangerous that is willfully ignorant that is armed and easily swayed by the most crazy of claims
Antony Blinken = Jake Tapper ?
Replyshow pictures of the classroom where it happened – pixellate the faces but show the dead kids – maybe THAT will galvanise the US into action. I’m in Australia – I own 3 rifles – all bolt action – I don’t need a semi automatic weapon to shoot feral animals or go target shooting
ReplyAs a European, it is just insane to me that you can buy an AR-15 at 18 but not a beer.
ReplyThe vast majority of the public want gun reform. The vast majority of fat people want to be thin too.
Neither of these things can come to pass without some desire to change things. Without the willpower to take the hardships that might need to be endured. And as stated in the video when this stuff comes up on a ballot the electorate decides to eat that slice of chocolate cake and start the diet tomorrow instead, maybe next week….
ReplyJake try to play both sides cornball
ReplyThe fact that the shootings are becoming more frequent points to a trend, that kids on their late teens or early twenties are so angry that they want to kill. I think that this needs to be examined, the why rather than just looking at the end result. Lessons need to be learned.
ReplyI’m a principal of an elementary school and I actually had this conversation with my parents. I 100% would want pictures made public in fact I told my mom she should send them to every Republican who has never found the moral courage to do what’s right not what’s easy and not what gets them a good rating with the NRA.
ReplyIt’s not being morbid if you are currently working in a school in this country you 100% know that the next school could be yours regardless of all the training regardless of all the safety plans drills etc.