Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Trump Guts Funding for Gun Violence Prevention

Violent crime was already trending down from a covid-era spike when President Donald Trump presented a picture of unbridled crime in America on the campaign trail in 2024. Now his administration has eliminated about $500 million in grants to organizations that buttress public safety, including many working to prevent gun violence.

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NEW: Violent crime was already trending down when Trump campaigned on addressing unbridled crime in America. Now his administration has cut about $500 million for crime prevention. My latest for @cnn.com and @kffhealthnews.org www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/h ...

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-- Bram Sable-Smith (@realbrambo.bsky.social) June 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM

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The GQP enthusiastically supports mass shootings.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-03 12:14 PM

Dotard Trumpf wants America to reach 50,000 gun-related deaths per annum. We are at about 47,000 now (or one KIA every eleven minutes), like a warzone but without the IDF or the Taliban: www.pewresearch.org

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-03 01:05 PM

The GOP is a death cult.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-03 01:21 PM

Trump is just trying to make the US #1 in the world. He won't be happy unless we are the best at killing each other.

#4 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-06-03 03:08 PM

From your own site, gun murders have been down the last 3 years. 14.6 percent last year, yet still you're terrified. Go back to Hamas land and see how long you'd last.

#5 | Posted by willowby at 2025-06-03 07:46 PM

"From your own site, gun murders have been down the last 3 years."

Under Joe Biden. (Or his AI robotic clone, apparently)

Leadership matters.

Let's see how those numbers look a few years from now.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-03 07:54 PM

No mass school shootings would mean no fund-raising from the NRA and other Trump supporting groups by scaring citizens into believing in imaginary gun confiscations.

The children are dying for a good cause... Donald J. Trump.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-03 08:11 PM

#7

I never in a million years thought Roe would be overturned either. Just thought it would always be a wedge issue between the Republifacists and Commucrats.

#8 | Posted by willowby at 2025-06-03 09:22 PM

I never in a million years thought Roe would be overturned either. Just thought it would always be a wedge issue between the Republifacists and Commucrats.

Posted by willowby at 2025-06-03 09:22 PM | Reply

Me either. I thought it was settled law. Boy was I wrong. Lordy

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-03 09:30 PM

yet still you're terrified.

Gee. Maybe because grants and programs funded by them may have played a role in those reductions?

Idiot.

Go back to Hamas land and see how long you'd last.

#5 | POSTED BY WILLOWBY

STFU you f^*+ing terard.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-04 12:38 AM

"I never in a million years thought Roe would be overturned either. "

What really changed here is Republicans.

Republicans weren't even opposed to Roe when it was first adjudicated.

Since then, Republicans have become the bull in the China shop of modern civilization.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-04 12:42 PM

How many lives would have to be saved to make Trump's decision to eliminate those funds reprehensible?

#12 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-04 01:19 PM

Tangentially related ...

Another agency gutted?

One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
www.axios.com

... Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during the second Trump administration, a former government official tells Axios " cutting the agency's total workforce by nearly a third.

Why it matters: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is also facing a potential 17% budget cut under the president's proposed budget -- raising fears that power grids, water utilities, and election systems could be left without a well-equipped federal partner as cyber threats mount.

The big picture: Trump officials are actively pursuing plans to increase offensive cyber operations against adversarial nations like China " and experts warn those nations are bound to respond in-kind to those strikes.

- - - But security experts fear that with a smaller cyber defense agency, the country won't have the resources needed to protect the homeland. ...


#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-04 02:48 PM

Interesting timing. I read yesterday. "Them gun safety nuts are bad for my business Dad!"

#14 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-05 09:59 AM

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