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    fortheloveofbeetsAimée Lutkin
    6/14/16 12:12pm

    God bless Sam Bee. She really is the rightful heir to the Daily Show—even if she’s doing her own show now. She’s the person who I look to now for her take on news events, who I can count on for catharsis.

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      darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeenefortheloveofbeets
      6/14/16 12:22pm

      Her audacity to be an angry woman on TV routinely floors me. She is very important.

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      Mike Pipper Super GIF Enthusiastfortheloveofbeets
      6/14/16 12:23pm

      I kinda wanna be her. <3

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    BusPassTrollop curls up and diesAimée Lutkin
    6/14/16 12:35pm

    I am so tired of this bullshit on my facebook feed:

    “I stand behind you in line at the store with a smile on my face...and a gun under my shirt and you are none the wiser, yet you are safer for having me next to you. I won’t shoot you. My gun won’t pull it’s own trigger. It is securely holstered with the trigger covered. It can’t just go off. However, rest assured that if a lunatic walks into the grocery store and pulls out a rifle, I will draw my pistol and protect myself and my family and therefore protect you and your family. I may get shot before I can pull the trigger...but, I won’t die in a helpless blubbering heap on the floor begging for my life or my child’s life. No, if I die it will be in a pile of spent shell casings. I won’t be that victim. I choose not to be. As for you, I don’t ask you to carry a gun. If you are not comfortable, then please don’t. But I would like to keep my right to choose to not be a helpless victim. There is evil in the world and if evil has a gun, I want one too...

    Copy and paste if you believe this too...‪#‎ISUPPORTTHE2ND‬”

    FUCK THESE PEOPLE. What a goddamn savior complex. 99.9% of the time your gun is not going to make me safer. Just shut the fuck up already.

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      Ms. SnarkleupagusBusPassTrollop curls up and dies
      6/14/16 12:45pm

      Hmm, that lovely poem is missing something ... maybe about how the person most likely to die from a gun is the gunowner? Maybe something about how in the ensuing panic, they'll probably be more likely to hurt someone with friendly fire than take out the assailant?

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      thesaurusrexBusPassTrollop curls up and dies
      6/14/16 12:50pm

      Holy goddamn shit, I saw the same thing in my feed (minus the copy/paste bit at the end) and it made me nauseous. I can’t decide if it’s better or worse that the guy in my feed didn’t sit down and think this all up himself because honestly, it’s a sickening sentiment.

      It has this undercurrent of ‘ugh, those victims, crying and scared, how pathetic’ that unnerves me. Reducing the victims to “helpless blubbering heaps” and congratulating yourself on how you’ll be going down in a “pile of spent shell casings” feels eerily similar to the mentality of a shooter.

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    MalcireAimée Lutkin
    6/14/16 12:44pm

    My only real issue with the video is that she refers to it as an assault rifle, which it isn’t.

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      KfishMalcire
      6/14/16 1:00pm

      You are correct. It is not the same type of rifle Hitler is given credit for naming. It does clear rooms and kill many people like an assault rifle, though, so I am going to let it go.

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      eggshelljonesMalcire
      6/14/16 1:12pm

      Yes, because pedantry will bring the hundreds who have died as the result of gun violence back from the dead. It doesn’t really matter what the thing is called, and splitting hairs about terminology does nothing except draw attention away from the actual issue, which is scores upon scores of innocent people being gunned down at least once a week in the United States.

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    Hedda BopperAimée Lutkin
    6/14/16 12:20pm

    Not calling out Sam Bee here, but wanted to get something off my chest: I’m always a little disgruntled when “thoughts and prayers” get mocked and derided in the wake of a shooting. My church (hippie dippie New England Episcopalians) formed a Gun Reform Legislation Committee after Newtown—we have teams of callers who harangue lawmakers about their votes, march in rallies, and otherwise use our well-connected parishioner community to effect change. We have two gay priests and two lady priests. We have gender neutral liturgy for marriage. We have ongoing interfaith dialogues with Muslims and others. None of those action steps happened magically or overnight—they started with thoughts and prayers.

    Prayers are how people of faith set intentions. They’re how we find guidance within ourselves to do the right thing. I know there’s a difference between my church and hypocritical politicians, but I hate the animosity toward all organized religion, all scripture, all non-secular means of seeking comfort in the wake of a tragedy.

    I’ve been absorbing so much of it through the Facebook and I feel very exhausted and defeated. When I should not! I know for a fact that my contributions to that faith community do more to advance the gun control cause than bitter, angry, misguided remarks about all faith communities. Or many of the people I know who make them.

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      Mental IcebergHedda Bopper
      6/14/16 12:25pm

      You do you.

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      darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeeneHedda Bopper
      6/14/16 12:26pm

      This isn’t about people like you (who sounds AWESOME btw) it’s about the lawmakers who say that specifically to deflect any sort of accountability or do anything in the wake of these tragedies. I hate that the shorthand is “thoughts and prayers” because we all do this in the wake of tragedy, but this isn’t about your faith and resultant actions, its about the inactions of these assholes who bastardize the phrase for their own political gain.

      ETA: Anyone on facebook who is being an asshole to you for expressing thorughts and prayers are assholes.

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    ValeriesDancingMuppetsAimée Lutkin
    6/14/16 12:14pm

    She’s making me crush on her so fucking hard, but for real, tho, if literally NOTHING was changed after 20 babies were murdered, why do we expect anything to happen now? This is depressing as fuck.

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      martypantsValeriesDancingMuppets
      6/14/16 12:26pm

      At least no one went on twitter after Sandy Hook and said it was great that those dirty babies got wiped off the face of the earth because they’re sinning against god or whatever. Everything is terrible.

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      VeggieTartmartypants
      6/14/16 12:30pm

      Yeah, but we did have assholes who felt that 20 dead kids were less important than their right to own the sort of weaponry that can kill a room in minutes.

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    OrionblamblamAimée Lutkin
    6/14/16 12:16pm

    > Florida Governor Rick Scott, who has been responsible for making access to AK-15s, and other guns, more and more available.

    An AK-15? Tell me more of this magical firearm. It sounds spectacular.

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      OverlySexualizedVelociraptorOrionblamblam
      6/14/16 12:19pm

      Yes because a typo is what we should be taking away from this story.

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      AllieCat ❤️'S hats on cats-is probable weirdoOverlySexualizedVelociraptor
      6/14/16 12:28pm

      My take away is the word “the”. Aimee wrote an article about the word, “the”. It was interesting I guess. Maybe it said other things? But I'm too busy to have paid attention. On to the next thought!

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    FonceAìgleAimée Lutkin
    6/14/16 12:26pm

    Yep as expected the governor is blaming it all on Muslims saying he does not want refugees in his state. What an expected asshole response to the tragedy.

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      darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeeneFonceAìgle
      6/14/16 12:28pm

      And this drives me nuts too! Does Florida have some sort of border control that we don’t know about.

      fuck this guy so fucking hard

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      Tzadarleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeene
      6/14/16 12:38pm

      We should, given the amount of invasive pythons we have. Hell, one of them even got elected governor!

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    Dr. Regina PhalangeAimée Lutkin
    6/14/16 12:20pm

    I love Sam Bee. I loved this clip as well, I can hear her voice shaking a little bit because of her barely suppressed rage/sadness, just like mine does whenever I talk about it. I’m so, so, so glad she has this show.

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      Jackie_Jormp_JompDr. Regina Phalange
      6/14/16 12:41pm

      John Oliver was the same way in his intro from Sunday night’s episode. He sounded like he was on the verge of rage tears for the whole thing.

      Needless to say, I love them both.

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    martypantsAimée Lutkin
    6/14/16 12:28pm

    Between Samantha Bee and Stephen Colbert, maybe, just maybe we can shift the political discourse on this a little over the next generation. God knows, this one’s a lost cause when it comes to their precious goddamn artillery.

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      darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeenemartypants
      6/14/16 1:05pm

      apparently 85% of the nation supports tighter gun control, and I believe almost half support an outright ban on guns (that last figure might be wrong).

      It is literally the NRA keeping anything from happening, and these fucking spineless politicians with their cowboy complexes.

      I need to research, we need grass roots fundraising to fight these assholes...there are enough of us that can contribute, and we can start to rival this fucking killing machine of a lobby.

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      martypantsdarleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeene
      6/14/16 1:09pm

      The crazy thing is, if you look at the actual reporting and responses made by politicians, you would think that 85% of the nation was firmly against any form of gun control. If they were the plush toy lobby, no one would ever take them seriously, but yet here we are, with a veiled (or sometimes outright) threat made of civil uprising if you should even think about touching gun laws.

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    thelasthalfdonutAimée Lutkin
    6/14/16 12:29pm
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    She just articulated, far better than I ever could, how I feel. When are we actually going to do something to stop this insanity? How have we let this become normal? Why why why? Rep. Haines from my state walked out of the House “moment of silence” today to protest the abundance of prayer and complete lack of action. Sen. Murphy flat out said that Congress is complicit in these mass killings by doing nothing about gun control. Good people need to speak the fuck up. All of us who understand that this unending horror cannot be accepted as the “new normal” need to rise and act. Pray that we can shut the NRA down, and put some of their fucking GOP lapdogs on the unemployment line in November. Pray, then go fucking VOTE!

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      thelasthalfdonutthelasthalfdonut
      6/14/16 12:47pm

      Kinja won’t let me edit. It’s Jim Himes, not Haines. Stupid auto correct blows.

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      darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeenethelasthalfdonut
      6/14/16 1:01pm

      I was reading a convo on twitter about this, and when australia banned guns, the entire parliment was voted out of office after that...which...FINE!

      We need some people who are actually public fucking servants and fall on the sword for their convictions! GET RID OF THE FUCKING GUNS! If you get voted out, so be it, at least you will have been a fucking good person.

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