Gun Crazy

By Baxter

We cats thought the Republicans didn't believe in politicizing mass shootings. At least, they're always scolding us for it. But here is wacky Arizona lout Paul Gosar, doing just that. (Apparently he's deleted the tweet, but as we all know, the interwebs live forever.)

And of course yesterday's gun"man" (again, only 18 years old) was born in North Dakota, USA. No news on his politics or gender identification, but in the meantime, Gosar really needs to stop putting two spaces after a period. He could use some comma help, too.

You know, other countries aren't immune to mass shootings. Montreal, Canada, where we are right now, had one in 1989, in which 14 women were killed at the École Polytechnique by a person we would today call an incel. New Zealand had that awful mosque massacre in 2019, which inspired the hater in Buffalo. Dunblane, Scotland, saw a school shooting back in the 1990s. And then there was that 2011 wipeout of the Workers' Youth League summer camp in Norway. Just awful.

The difference is that those other countries responded with stricter gun laws. The US, famously, has not.

The only way out of this is to vote Democratic this November. We have to hold the House and increase our Senate seats so that our recalcitrant members become irrelevant and what needs to get done gets done.

It will help if Chuck Schumer, if he fails to get agreement from GOP Senators (and of course he will fail), schedules continuous votes on gun legislation — to get Republicans on the record, again and again and again. It would also help if the press holds Republicans' feet to the fire by never letting them sit for an interview without being asked about 19 dead kids in Uvalde. But we're not confident. We cats HISS.