Janney murder/suicide committed with a handgun in DC: Thanks, Scalia

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard people talk about the “Roberts Five” - the Federalist Society (and thus billionaire)-backed Republican Supreme Court judges.

Seems to me that all of the Roberts Five are partially responsible for this woman’s death.

Or maybe the guy who shot her is responsible for her death.

It is not hard to obtain a weapon illegally in DC. You can also drive 5 min to purchase a gun in VA. How do you think criminals obtain guns in DC? Do you think they follow the law?

BUT SCALIA!!!

I don't pin it on Scalia. We are awash in so many guns and have so many murders that gun violence is simply a social contagion. A woman being killed by current/former boyfriend/spouse is completely normalized in our culture. Do most men do it? Absolutely not. But it is so easy to get a gun and so common that it is barely news when it happens. Again and again.

Once the contagion is established in a culture, it is very hard to stop. I see nothing short of a mass reduction in the number of guns and a whole generation for things to improve. Not holding my breath. We can pray, of course, and we do. The Congress isn't going to help. The courts certainly aren't going to help. The President? Nope.

[Anonymous]

^^^^ Take a deep breath. You will be fine. Homicides are down about 50% from a few decades ago. Maybe too much social media is to blame?

[Anonymous]

If he was depressed (which his behavior -missing court dates etc) sounds like he was, he should not have had a gun. However, our laws dont reflect this. Our laws heavily veer towards "protecting" the rights of the distressed or mentally I'll in this country (try stopping a stalker, god forbid you have one) -though we are really not protecting or helping them at all with non intervention. Just look at the homeless in DC and think how many are someones kid that could have been helped with involuntary commitment long ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard people talk about the “Roberts Five” - the Federalist Society (and thus billionaire)-backed Republican Supreme Court judges.

Seems to me that all of the Roberts Five are partially responsible for this woman’s death.

Or maybe the guy who shot her is responsible for her death.

It is not hard to obtain a weapon illegally in DC. You can also drive 5 min to purchase a gun in VA. How do you think criminals obtain guns in DC? Do you think they follow the law?

BUT SCALIA!!!

I don't pin it on Scalia. We are awash in so many guns and have so many murders that gun violence is simply a social contagion. A woman being killed by current/former boyfriend/spouse is completely normalized in our culture. Do most men do it? Absolutely not. But it is so easy to get a gun and so common that it is barely news when it happens. Again and again.

Once the contagion is established in a culture, it is very hard to stop. I see nothing short of a mass reduction in the number of guns and a whole generation for things to improve. Not holding my breath. We can pray, of course, and we do. The Congress isn't going to help. The courts certainly aren't going to help. The President? Nope.

Scalia took gifts from billionaires (he died on a billionaire funded gun trip) to roll back gun laws.

The NRA takes money from rightwing billionaires because the GOP knows it can get votes via gun identity politics.

This isn’t just something that randomly happened. Our gun epidemic of violence is due to Republicans. And Scalia bears responsibility. Especially for this killing. Because his radical activist decision in Heller helped enabled this crime.

Republican identity politics has real consequences for gun violence in DC.

[Anonymous]

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As someone who has hunted with a (single shot) rifle, 20 years ago I would have said the problem was that red-area hunters didn’t understand that blue-city people actually get killed by handguns, and blue-city people don’t understand that hunting doesn’t really make people less safe. The problem used to be a lack of understanding between communities.

Then the NRA turned into a fusion of rightwing billionaires who want votes for tax cuts (that’s why the Koches and similar give money to the NRA) along with gun corporations that want to increase profit by selling more guns.

Today, we’re up against much more than misunderstandings. We’re up against a well-financed conservative infrastructure that doesn’t care how many people die as long as they make more money — either by gun sales or tax cuts and deregulation.

I feel bad for the average NRA member. 40 years ago, the NRA was truly a gun safety organization. Some of its members still are that group. But today the NRA (and its

I disagree. I live in DC and am happy with banning guns in DC. I also have access to a rural place where shooting for sport and hunting are part of the culture. I get both sides.

What I don't get, is the idea that there shouldn't be background checks, insurance and licensing for anyone wanting to own and operate a gun, just like a car.


Kindly explain to the best of your
I also don;t get why an AR-15 is needed under any circumstance other than mass killing of humans. One sure as heck wouldn't hunt with one.

Kindly explain, to the best of your ability, the material differences between an AR15 (which by the way cannot lawfully be owned in DC) and any other repeating rifle of your choice, elucidating, if you would, the reasons why you believe an AR15 is unsuited for hunting

OHHHHHHH! You’re trying to show off your superior knowledge of guns! Wow, how could anyone ever argue with THAT?! I mean, it’s not like kids lives are at stake or anything.


I have no time for gun-fetishist semantic BS arguments.

If you don’t like people saying “ban AR-15”s, then I’m happy to say “ban all semiautomatics”. Would that make you feel better in your argument in your own head?

Since you can't respond to the questions posed, could you please explain what exactly you understand a semiautomatic firearm to be, and how it differs materially from any other repeating firearm of your choice.

[Anonymous]

Ban anything but single-shot hunting rifles.

I am in favor of hunting. But you only need a single shot rifle for that.

Ban semi autos.

Keep the kid-massacring weapons out of public hands, unless they belong to a full-time, paid, well-organized, government-run militia. As the Founders specified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I don't pin it on Scalia. We are awash in so many guns and have so many murders that gun violence is simply a social contagion. A woman being killed by current/former boyfriend/spouse is completely normalized in our culture. Do most men do it? Absolutely not. But it is so easy to get a gun and so common that it is barely news when it happens. Again and again.

Once the contagion is established in a culture, it is very hard to stop. I see nothing short of a mass reduction in the number of guns and a whole generation for things to improve. Not holding my breath. We can pray, of course, and we do. The Congress isn't going to help. The courts certainly aren't going to help. The President? Nope.

But Scalia (and four other conservative judges) rolled back DC's handgun laws. DC was TRYING to make it harder to possess handguns in the city. And an activist Republican Supreme Court overruled them.

Cities want gun control. SCOTUS rolling back gun laws doesn't help keep people safe in this country.

How can you NOT put some responsibility on Scalia (and the rightwing media world he lived in)?

[Anonymous]

What percentage of murders in DC are committed with legal handguns? Illegally owned handguns?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ban anything but single-shot hunting rifles.

I am in favor of hunting. But you only need a single shot rifle for that.

Ban semi autos.

Keep the kid-massacring weapons out of public hands, unless they belong to a full-time, paid, well-organized, government-run militia. As the Founders specified.

Seems like a single shot long gun would've been all this guy needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of murders in DC are committed with legal handguns? Illegally owned handguns?

Prior to rolling back the unconstitutional ban, all of them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ban anything but single-shot hunting rifles.

I am in favor of hunting. But you only need a single shot rifle for that.

Ban semi autos.

Keep the kid-massacring weapons out of public hands, unless they belong to a full-time, paid, well-organized, government-run militia. As the Founders specified.

Seems like a single shot long gun would've been all this guy needed.

But he had a handgun. A gun that Scalia and Roberts let him have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of murders in DC are committed with legal handguns? Illegally owned handguns?

Prior to rolling back the unconstitutional ban, all of them?

Oh honey. You don’t know that Scalia was a partisan and that “textualism” is a farce, do you?

Before 20 years ago, it was WIDELY recognized that the 2nd amendment protected only militias, not individuals.
Then Republican interests stacked the courts with liars and partisans who rewrote the 2nd Amendment.
Because gun identity politics gets votes for Republican billionaires and their tax cuts — and, what a coincidence, those same billionaires fund both the NRA AND the Federalist Society that finds the hack judges and gets them nominated.
And those billionaires and the weak-minded judges they own are getting Americans killed. And they could care less.

Described well here.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/nra-guns-second-amendment-106856

How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment
The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun. Today, millions believe they did. Here’s how it happened.

[Anonymous]

funny how you only care about this when the victim looks like you. Why not write your comments when a person in SE gets killed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:funny how you only care about this when the victim looks like you. Why not write your comments when a person in SE gets killed?

Not sure who you’re talking to, but yes, when black kids get killed by handguns in DC, Roberts and Scalia share the blame for that too.

It is disgusting that Phil Anschutz and his billionaire allies have been willing to let people in DC and other cities get killed just to advance their agenda.
We will look back on that in 30 years like we look back on Zyklon B. Not as many people are getting killed today due to gun identity politics. It is not millions. But it is tens of thousands.

Disgusting traitor Republican scoundrels.

[Anonymous]

^Phil Anschutz: Scalia’s sugar daddy, as well as Gorsuch’s.