Heard today the NRA has some 5 million members (same as it had several years ago). Once you reach that number you have lost control of your philosophy. One step in any direction people will leave. This tells me we often create our own monsters.

Well, you can't stop evil. Your argument is as futile towards stopping evil as your comments to stop shootings. Under the current structure we are being forced to live under, it simply isn't going to be genuinely addressed. Quite frankly, you're seemingly just another person operating under the influence of the managed indoctrination that keeps most people arguing within the facade of parameters drawn for our MSMs, who serve our representation, developed by public relation firms for the ruling class. In which the NRA is one of many tools for all of the above as a strategic point within the purposeful managed chaos our society faces in regards to this aspect. Which deceptively manages, in coordination with other certain aspects of social issues, to manipulate certain members of our society into this managed chaos. We're fighting a system that doesn't represent us, and doesn't have any genuine concern for us. It's really that simple. Your misunderstanding of the events deters you from this discovery.

I like to know what your ideology on engaged is?

“He walked in unobstructed initially,”

“He was not confronted by anybody,”

The gunman got out of his truck and shot at two people across the street, before shooting multiple times at the school building.

It's highly likely no one in the school heard the initial shooting across the street, and time frame would probably give him the advantage of making it in the school even if the shooting towards the school was recognized. The element of surprise was clearly beneficial to him.

Then you want to complicate the narrative by introducing phantom scenarios that create distractions from the issue that needs pertinent address. Classic maneuvers used to avoid genuine address while adding to the already existing fears.

Such as you then go on to attack the NRA but completely leave out representation. In which should be the primary target because by all means the entire problem has a path leading straight towards this aspect of our society. !Local, state, and national! In which both establishment parties have held power over the decades to address this issue but have purposely chosen to neglect it.

Let me add some clarity to your mention of gun deaths as a foundation to my comments, if I may. Suicides are reported as the most deaths by guns in which also is reported to gain the most funding, lame as it is, but isn't genuinely confronted. Hold that thought. As all the others go, legislation, again, lame as it is, is never fully funded or funded at all to genuinely address. Thought over as it leads directly back to representation! Who donates a substantial amount of money to our representation? NRA. Within virtually every aspect of our neglected society the answers to why they aren't genuinely address aways has a path made of money leading from the ruling class to representation to media to the manipulated at the bottom. The most common issue with gun deaths is mental stability which is constantly voiced after each incident. It is also the most ignored by our representation. That isn't a coincidence.

I seen a post on my homepage feed today that stated Texan representatives are now angered because law enforcement is wrongly being attacked. I'll just leave that there for people to step over or on.

[truthout.org]

McCraw did confirm that the school cop did arrive at the school at 11:31 a.m., two minutes before Ramos entered through a side door that was apparently propped open.

During this time, the officer apparently did not see Ramos shooting at the school and drove right past him in the parking lot to engage a teacher he apparently thought had something to do with the shooting. The school police officer, unlike what was claimed by police during the first 48 hours following the massacre, never shot at Ramos.

Of course, this presupposes that the police exist to serve the interests of all of society, which under capitalism is not the case. The police are an instrument of class rule, charged with the power to shoot and kill workers and youth whenever they “feel threatened.”

President Joe Biden, and Donald Trump before him, praise police as “heroes” and flood departments around the country with billions of dollars in additional funding, while money for social services evaporates. Police are provided military-grade weaponry, advanced computers, social media tracking software, body armor, advanced optics, “less-lethal” ammunition, and “urban assault vehicles,” not to risk their lives to save the children of working class families, but to protect the rich, intimidate workers, and ensure profits keep flowing to Wall Street.

Attempting to explain the thinking of Arredondo, McCraw argued that the police were convinced that Ramos, who fired over 100 rounds once he entered the building, had already massacred all the children in the classrooms and that there was “no rush” to attempt to give aid to any of the injured that might still be alive.

McCraw said, without actually naming him, that Arredondo was “convinced at the time that there was no more threat to the children and that the subject was barricaded and that they had time to organize.” [emphasis added]

That there was “no more threat” to the children was immediately contradicted by McCraw when he revealed that multiple children locked inside the classroom with Ramos for over an hour continued to call 911 pleading for police assistance, to no avail.

The shooter got into the school through an unlocked door.
Let's ban all doors.

Makes as much sense as the rest of the garbage they're spewing.
Stupid fuckers.

Evil personified

Guns are banned from the NRA Conference this weekend. If more guns save lives... why are the pro gun people banning them from their own event (rhetorical).
#Hypocrites

Before Bush Sr. died he gave up his NRA membership because of a shooting like this. It made no difference to the NRA hierarchy at all.

"The response of the NRA to the Texas school shooting is nothing short of irrationality moral insanity, and an outright lie. “You can’t stop evil.”" and "What lying, greedy, filthy, uncaring bastards they are!!!!! That any decent human being would choose to believe them is incomprehensible!!"

You amazingly sum up my feelings about your comments regarding the fomenting of anti Russian conflict, funding & arming fascists in Ukraine to commit genocide in Donbass to provoke Russia into action to prevent the genocide:

"The response of WordyWalt et al to the Russian response to fascist Ukrainians & their mercenaries to the genocide of Russian speaking ukrainians is nothing short of irrationality moral insanity, and an outright lie. “You can’t stop evil.”" and "What lying, greedy, filthy, uncaring bastards Walt & his mates are!!!!! That any decent human being would choose to believe them is incomprehensible!!"

Who agrees with me?

Many licensing laws need to be modified, however, the shooter got into the school because a teacher left a door unlocked after she used it.

How many guns are enough in our country? We already are averaging more than one per adult citizen... That should make the NRA happy. But nope, not yet! I don't see how they say more guns is the answer... we already have more guns!

How about not selling assault rifles outside the military, and buying back what's already out there? An 18 year old doesn't need an assault rifle, except for one reason.

How about teaching kids how to solve conflicts in non-violent ways? I know, wishful thinking. Parents, teach your children well -- and get them help if they show any signs of not being able to handle being in a pluralistic environment. Chances are they are learning their anger from somewhere.

It seems you can't stop evil when it is named the NRA.