The Republican Small Arms Proliferation Policies are Terrorism

What do the three dominate news stories of the week all have in common? Terrorism! What??!? That’s crazy talk! How can that be?

The Three Dominant News Stories of the Week: A Disturbing Connection to Terrorism

• MASS SHOOTING IN MAINE: Gunman armed with an assault weapon with extra-large bullets just for good measure, kills 18 and wounds a score more and leads law enforcement on a merry chase until he commits suicide.
• ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR: Israel is gearing up to kill thousands more Gazans in the name of revenge after Hamas kills a thousand Israelis in the name of revenge.
• HOUSE GOP ELECTS NEW SPEAKER: After three weeks of turmoil and untold numbers of secret and not-so-secret votes, the House GOP elects Rep. Mike “Law and Order” Johnson Speaker.

COMMENT: Tell us what YOU think about this week’s news!

Terrorism: A Definition and its Applicability to the Israel-Hamas War, Gun Violence, Speaker Johnson

Terrorism is the use of violent direct attacks on civilian populations to force governments to make changes to policies, laws, and other government functions. Or, to exact revenge on larger more powerful foes.

Israel and Hamas both committing terrorism

I think we all see how the Israel-Hamas thing all fits the terrorism bill. Hamas attacks Southern Israel killing a thousand and kidnapping hundreds in order to scuttle any chance of Israel-Saudi Arabia rapprochement. Israel retaliates by killing thousands more Palestinians in their homes, mosques, schools, and Israeli-designated safe zones in order to force a change to the Gaza government.

Mass shootings & republican gun Policies two halves of the terrorism equation

What about the other two incidents? The mass shooting in Maine and the election of Rep. Mike “It’s not guns” Johnson are related to terrorism in the same way your ass and crack are related to your anus. While Maine’s mass shooter lacks a clear political agenda, he’s spreading death, mayhem, chaos, and fear just like terrorists do.

However, they are deliberately contributing to the climate that encourages and promotes mass shootings and other gun-related deaths and injuries in order to promote their political agenda, just like terrorists do. So, together, they make one terrorist. Funny how that works.

COMMENT: Tell us your views on terrorism, not only the Hamas-type, but also, the Israeli-type and the Republican Party’s gun policy-type. I’d love to discuss them with you… civilly.

Exposing the Link Between the Republican Political Agenda and Gun Violence

The Republican Party’s Role in the Proliferation of Gun Deaths

The lax and laxer gun laws crowd engages in performative hand-wringing and pearl-clutching after every mass shooting as they claim to deeply care for the problems of our society, especially the mental health of the shooter. Queen Gertrude thinks they doth protest too much, I do believe. Next they immediately admonish the rest of us not to politicize the tragedy, which, of course, is politicizing the tragedy because they bring it up, and they never do anything to to stop it. Their third thing is to tell us that the only way to prevent future mass shootings is by sacrificing our beliefs and freedoms on the alter of their moral world view: hate the sin, punish the sinner. They seem to think that our powerlessness to actually stop bad people with guns from killing people is god’s will or something, and by appeasing their version of god we can all cross the bloody waters of the good dead on the bloody corpses of sinners, riding unicorns, holding hands, eating the hearts of sinners, and singing Kumba-fucking-ya. Since we aren’t willing to see the world their way, it really is our fault, y’all.

The Intentional Spread of Fear: The Republican Contribution to Domestic Terrorism

Every day, approximately one hundred forty real live Americans die due to small arms. The number of gun deaths is so high and frequent that most incidents never make it into the local news cycle or the public consciousness, except for that of their survivors. It is only when someone kills four or more people that we hear about it, and it is only when the number of casualties reaches a large figure that it makes headlines, like the incident in Maine where 18 people were killed.

Consequently, we are deeply traumatizing the entire population of the United States with the persistent occurrence of gun-related deaths and injuries. The undeniable truth is that these incidents leave an indelible mark on all of us, whether they occur in our immediate surroundings, the places we frequently visit, or even if they are just constantly reported on our TV and computer screens. Every American is burdened with a complex mix of emotions including fear, hopelessness, frustration, and anxiety. In a single word, we are left feeling terrorized and emotionally scarred by these events.

COMMENTS: Are the Republicans deliberately stoking violence in America?

The Goal of Republicans: Undermining Democracy

Let’s wrap this post up and clearly relate Republican gun policy to terrorism. What have we got so far, and what do we lack in terms of defining Republicans as terrorists?

• We have violent gross attacks on civilians in the form of gun deaths, injuries, and violence.
• We have an identifiable group, the Republican Party, perpetrating the attacks by their refusal to develop and enforce regulations of small arms and promotion of violent rhetoric.
  • There is no argument that the proliferation of small arms and increases in gun related deaths and injuries are positively correlated and that changing one changes the other.
  • Creating the conditions increasing gun violence through the use of violent, hateful, dehumanizing imagery and direct suggestions is fairly well established.

Increasing Gun Violence and Fear to Discredit Democracy

The only thing we’re lacking is a political goal that the Republicans are trying to force upon us by attacking our civilian population. The logic of terrorism makes it clear that the Republicans must be seeking a change in our our government policy, laws, or other behaviors. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be going to such great lengths over such an extended period of time with increasing coordination between groups.

We know what their goal is. They are trying to “prove” that democracy doesn’t work. A democratic government cannot preserve our freedoms — their twisted versions of Second Amendment gun rights, First Amendment religious rights, and First Amendment speech rights — and be a functional democracy. They literally want us to voluntarily give up our democracy in favor of their theological autocracy.

Understanding the Connection: Terrorism as a Means to Suppress Democracy

If we start from the premise that there are no problems that are unsolvable and combine it with the idea that persistent problems exist because someone, a group, or a faction wants them to persist, we reach two conclusions. Firstly, we should not pay attention to what people proclaim their beliefs to be. And, secondly, we should focus on their actions and the outcomes of the policies and laws they implement, as these reflect the world they desire. From there, we can assume that the occurrences in our world are intentional and are happening the way they are because they are intended to be so. Presto, ergo, sum cum loud, those that oppose gun regulation, want unrestricted gun violence in our society to achieve their political goal of taxadermying our representative democracy by stuffing it with a single-party pseudo-democratic minority-rule oligarchy just like they have in Russia.

COMMENTS: Does the connection between increasing gun violence and Republican authoritarian design exist?

Call to Action: What Can We Do?

There are three things that we all must do at our every opportunity:

Voting as a Powerful Tool: Punish the Anti-Democratic Goals of Republicans

VOTE THE FUCKERS OUT: Every election must be a straight-up punish the Republican Party for their authoritarian oppressive ways. They cannot be rewarded — none of them, even the mOdErAtE one like Mittens — by being elected to office. We must vote anti-Republican. Every member of the House that voted for Mike Johnson supports his anti-democratic views. Every Republican that doesn’t speak out against Trump and MAGA support their anti-democratic views. Every election is a single issue election and that issue is democracy. One party is for it. The other is agin it.

Raising Questions: Confronting Republicans on the OUTCOMES of Their Policies

ASK EVERY REPUBLICAN why they support stochastic terrorism and refuse to do anything to stop the deaths of 48,000 real live dead Americans every year. Why do 140 Americans have to die every day to gun violence? Why do 12 Americans have to die every hour of gun violence? Why does an American have to die from gun violence every five fucking minutes? Not promoting gun restrictions like we have on free speech and freedom of religion allows mass traumatizing carnage in our country, why do they openly support that?

ASK THEM WHY THEY WANT the American people traumatized by guns? Since the Republican Party is the only party that opposes gun safety regulations, what do they hope to gain out of widespread gun violence and trauma that we experience every day.

Demanding Change: Advocating for Proven Gun Safety Legislation

DEMAND SUPPORT FOR PROVEN GUN SAFETY LEGISLATION: We know that more guns in a state equals more gun deaths in that state. We know that guns cross state lines and produce more guns in neighboring states and countries like Mexico. Why don’t we have better gun registration, ballistic fingerprinting on guns, a government agency focused on preventing gun deaths? There are evidence-based policies that we could enact RIGHT THE FUCK now to stop this.

Don’t let the motherfuckers off the hook. Organize for Election 2024. Get the vote out. Make it a single issue election. Do your part.

Image Attribution

This image was generated using Poe’s StableDiffusionXL bot using the prompt, Gun violence destroying democracy with a few Republican lawmakers lurking in the background