Warnock Says Gun Lobby 'lines Its Pockets with the Blood of Our Children' After Georgia School Shooting

Monday, September 09, 2024

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Sunday took aim at some politicians whom he described as "beholden to the gun lobby" while lamenting his frustrations about gun violence in the wake ...

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Good job Warnock, well done protecting your own schools. Maybe you should actually do some work instead of lining your own pockets you piece of crap.

#1 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-09-09 11:13 AM | Reply

you piece of crap.

#1 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

The piece of crap is in your mirror.

Warnok has been a champion for gun safety in the Senate.

He has supported legislation that would close loopholes in our gun laws that allow people who have committed domestic abuse to access firearms, require background checks on all gun sales, and secure funding for community violence initiatives and gun violence research.

What have you done for gun safety and to prevent more gun violence in America besides lie about it and support a convicted felon and his lies?

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-09 11:30 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The reverend is right.

perhaps we need to raise the age of gun ownership to 21 and require all gun owners to keep their guns (when not in use or being transported) in gun safes with combination locks and require they not share the combination with anyone other than a spouse.

#3 | Posted by Tor at 2024-09-09 12:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

keep their guns (when not in use or being transported) in gun safes with combination locks

I think SCOTUS has already said no to that. 1A prefers that your gun be loaded and sitting on the coffee table.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-09-09 12:26 PM | Reply

Warnock isn't wrong

#5 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-09-09 12:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What a weird opinion. So the Democrats defund the police, bring in millions of unvetted professional criminals from the world over including those who emptied prisons of Venezuela etc and now they want to take away our God given right to protect ourselves with firearms? What we really need is a country of citizens that are willing to fight and purge the criminal invaders and trash and then take our country back from those who try to steal it. A hundred years ago we would have had the guts and desire of sovereignty to take care of this problem.

#6 | Posted by Robson at 2024-09-09 12:43 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"What we really need is a country of citizens that are willing to fight and purge the criminal invaders and trash and then take our country back from those who try to steal it."

What a weird opinion. No one is "stealing" your country. If anything they are buying it out from under lazy --- mouth breathers like you.

Only about 2% of Americans are patriotic enough to ever serve in the military to protect their country.

Apparently about 38% (maga maroons) are too busy shooting up cases of beer and rolling coal and whining about immigrants taking their jerbs.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-09 12:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

now they want to take away our God given right to protect ourselves with firearms?
#6 | Posted by Robson

Someone tell this fool who wrote the constitution and what AMENDMENT means.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-09 01:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

The bill of rights says nothing about where guns are to be stored.

Matter of fact in theory we could require people to check their guns out of a federal facility in each county and return them when they don't have a need for them the rest of the day.

After all it's whats needed to keep a well armed militia.

#9 | Posted by Tor at 2024-09-09 01:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The bill of rights says nothing about where guns are to be stored.

The Heller decision did:

"...the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is hence unconstitutional."

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-09-09 01:39 PM | Reply

purge the criminal invaders and trash and then take our country back

Was this shooter a criminal invader? Nope, just another white kid with a father who cared more about his keeping guns when the cops came knocking last year than he cared about his kid.

#11 | Posted by qcp at 2024-09-09 01:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The only thing noteworthy about this thread is, given the current state of American gun culture that this even needs to be pointed out to anyone in the first place.

#12 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-09-09 07:45 PM | Reply

""The reality is that in America, it's not safe to be in our schools. It's not safe to be in our shopping malls. It's not safe to be in the spa. It's not safe to be in a medical clinic. and even Evangelical Christians are not safe in their churches, We're all sitting ducks," Warnock said on NBC News's "Meet the Press."

Just needed to add Churches too. But right wing Christians still support politicians who "line their pockets with the blood of our children."

#13 | Posted by danni at 2024-09-10 07:30 AM | Reply

He's not wrong.

#14 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-10 07:48 AM | Reply

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-09 11:30 AM |

That's just nonsense to fool people into the appearance of doing something.

Felony convictions mean you can't own a gun already.

States have to require background checks for all transactions, it's not up to Congress.

Money is poured into gun violence research. The magic fed faucet of research is going to produce what exactly? Further, why can't any gun control lobby groups bankroll it? What just Everytown spends in a year on TV ads that do nothing could easily fund multiple research teams at tier 1 universities.

#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-09-10 09:37 AM | Reply

"That's just nonsense to fool people into the appearance of doing something."

Right. Because a U.S. Senator supporting safer gun laws is just nonsense and pretending to do something.

What is nonsense is Republicans continuing to refuse to support any proposed legislation to make Americans safer because they are beholden to the gun lobby while 87 percent of voters are in favor of requiring criminal background checks for all gun buyers.

"States have to require background checks for all transactions, it's not up to Congress."

Only because Congress refuses to act.

"The magic fed faucet of research is going to produce what exactly?"

Information on how to prevent more death?

The real question is why are Republicans afraid of the government researching gun violence when it is the leading cause of death for children and teens?

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-10 12:38 PM | Reply