Democrat SIT-IN Shaming: Let's Go MDS Patriots!

Jim12 said:

For context, the Dems know that their proposals won't work; this is all a political charade to frame a political issue for the election, energize their base, and raise money. I heard the writer of this piece on the radio today -- NPR! Lois Beckett, of The Guardian, actually discusses the real problems and real solutions.


Changing the conversation: how to break the cycle of gun reform failure
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...nging-the-conversation-hillary-clinton-reform

"... Now Democrats have decided that taking on the NRA is a great way to energize their base. But it’s one thing to try to win elections by stoking Democratic voters’ anger about Republicans blocking laws to reduce gun violence. It’s another thing to actually move the needle on the number of people dying.

A cycle of mistrust

What wins elections for Democrats isn’t necessarily what saves lives. If Democrats are serious about the latter, too, they can’t just re-litigate the sometimes dubious policies of the 1990s. And they can’t pretend that all progress on reducing gun violence in America is being blocked by Republicans and the NRA.

It’s not. There are ways to save lives that have nothing to do with regulating guns. All that’s holding them back is lack of public attention and a little bit of money.

We’ve been fiercely debating gun violence, police violence, and criminal justice reform as if these are three completely separate problems. In fact, community advocates on the ground often see them as deeply interconnected problems – a vicious cycle of mistrust that makes everyone less safe.

Researchers have found that most urban gun violence is driven by very small networks of extremely high-risk men – and that focusing prevention efforts on those men can reduce gang-related violence by a third or more. There’s clear evidence that the best way to reduce violence is to zero in on the places and the people most at risk of contributing to violence – not whole “bad” neighborhoods, not whole generations of young black men in hoodies, but particular addresses, particular street corners, the one or two percent of high-risk young men who are actually driving the violence and putting everyone around them in danger. Researchers and community advocates have been exploring ways that reducing gun violence might require reckoning with racially biased policing – and how restoring the legitimacy of the police in the eyes of black community members may help break the cycle of retaliatory shootings.

After Sandy Hook, as the Obama administration was launching a new national platform on gun violence prevention, a group of black ministers came to Washington to push the White House to focus more on the gun deaths of black men. They asked the White House to include funding for successful targeted urban violence prevention strategies in the national platform.

“What was said to us by the White House was, there’s really no support nationally to address the issue of urban violence,” Rev Charles Harrison, a pastor from Indianapolis said. “The support was to address the issue of gun violence that affected suburban areas – schools where white kids were killed.”

The reluctance to talk about black men as the majority of America’s gun violence victims is beginning to change. So is the huge gap between the national policy debate and what’s working in cities like Boston and New Orleans.

In the tumultuous days since the Orlando shooting, there is an urgency in the debate, which speaks of a new momentum. There are lessons for proponents and opponents of guns, the gun industry, politicians and the media.

Outrage is important. Outrage is the beginning. But outrage won’t get us far enough. To move forward, it will take discipline, political compromise, and a relentless focus on what actually works to save lives."

###

The Dems are politicking in an election year for partisan advantage, not offering solutions. And by demanding that gun rights of "suspected" terrorists on secret, McCarthyesque lists aren't worthy of Due Process compliance, while ignoring not only radical Islamic terrorism but also the real problems and possible real solutions discussed above, proves it.

Click to expand...

28Shooter said:

I really wish I could help out with this one but my daughter is scheduled for surgery that morning. Good luck guys and thank you!

Click to expand...

DC-W said:

Here's to everything going beyond smoothly for her

Click to expand...

Jim12 said:

The Dems are politicking in an election year for partisan advantage, not offering solutions. And by demanding that gun rights of "suspected" terrorists on secret, McCarthyesque lists aren't worthy of Due Process compliance, while ignoring not only radical Islamic terrorism but also the real problems and possible real solutions discussed above, proves it.

Click to expand...

Latest Action: 06/20/2016 SA 4749 fell when SA 4720 tabled.

Click to expand...

28Shooter said:

I really wish I could help out with this one but my daughter is scheduled for surgery that morning. Good luck guys and thank you!

Click to expand...