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Really unhinged

19 Thursday Apr 2018

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Jefferson City. We’d heard the rumors over a day ago. Then we saw this:

Jane Dueker @JaneDueker
Missouri Capitol security concerns raised by @SenatorNasheed to the Department of Public Safety re: @EricGreitens. Add these to suspicious package and arrest of accused pedophile staffer. No everything is not ok in JC.
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3:48 PM – 19 Apr 2018

Senator Jamilah Nasheed (D) sent a letter to the Director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety yesterday asking for increased security at the capitol complex. There’s this paragraph in the letter:

“…There are additional unconfirmed rumors circulating the Capitol involving an incident at the Greitens’ Innsbrook home involving troubling behavior, the presence of firearms and a member of the Governor’s cabinet. While these reports are unconfirmed…”

It’s long past time to clean up this mess. The Missouri House of Representatives has the authority and the obligation to do so.

Previously:

The Report (April 11, 2018)

Call it what it is (April 11, 2018)

Go away, asshole. (April 12, 2018)

Sen. Denny Hoskins (r-21): impeach Greitens (April 13, 2018)

Getting ironical about Greitens (April 13, 2018)

Standing ovation (April 14, 2018)

Quid pro quo (April 16, 2018)

It’s a fine mess he’s gotten himself into… (April 17, 2018)

Really, just go away… (April 17, 2018)

HR 6783: Impeachment (April 18, 2018)

Unhinged (April 19, 2019)

There but for the grace of…

26 Monday Mar 2018

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“We stand with Parkland”

Saturday in Kansas City. Theis Park.

Previously:

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – in Theis Park on Saturday, March 24, 2018 (March 20, 2018)

Another sign for the times (March 23, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Warrensburg, Missouri – March 24, 2018 (March 24, 2017)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – signs (March 24, 2018)

Are we tired of 2nd Amendment overkill (and I do mean kill) yet? (March 24, 2018)

Until this changes… (March 25, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – more signs (March 25, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – getting there (March 25, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – getting there

25 Sunday Mar 2018

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5,000? 6,000? 7,000? 10,000? A media consensus appears to be around 6,000. Who knows?

There where a lot of people at yesterday’s Kansas City March for Our Lives in Theis Park. With limited or no nearby parking those attending had to find something on the Plaza, at UMKC, or in adjacent neigborhoods and then walk to the park.

And so they did, from all four corners:

“Why are your guns more important than our kids?”

“Marching so my 2 year old won’t need active shooter drills.”

“Bullets are not school supplies.”

“Every vote counts.”

“Thank you, young Americans.”

“Protect people, not guns.”

Previously:

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – in Theis Park on Saturday, March 24, 2018 (March 20, 2018)

Another sign for the times (March 23, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Warrensburg, Missouri – March 24, 2018 (March 24, 2017)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – signs (March 24, 2018)

Are we tired of 2nd Amendment overkill (and I do mean kill) yet? (March 24, 2018)

Until this changes… (March 25, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – more signs (March 25, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – more signs

25 Sunday Mar 2018

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More signs from yesterday’s March for Our lives in Kansas City at Theis Park.

5,000? 7,000? 10,000? There appears to be a media consensus estimate of 6,000. Who could tell? It was a lot of people. At a protest event organized by kids.

A badass mom:

“This mom don’t play, stop the NRA.”

“I’m a teacher, not a soldier.”

“We are killing our future.”

“Vote them out!”

“Vote like our children’s lives depend on it.”

“Thoughts and prayers are not enough.”

Sarcasm:

“I want to die like an American – of diabetes and heart disease – not from guns.”

“Congress: be as brave as your children.”

It’s Congress. It’s controlled by republicans. That’s not going to happen as long as they’re in power.

Medical students:

“No more silence…end gun violence.”

“Harden our gun laws, not our schools.”

Plenty of sarcasm:

“There should be a background check before the NRA is allowed to buy a senator.”

“My school’s dress code has more regulations than guns!”

It’s a matter of priorities. Heaven forbid that a child bleed to death in school while wearing “inappropriate” clothing.

Previously:

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – in Theis Park on Saturday, March 24, 2018 (March 20, 2018)

Another sign for the times (March 23, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Warrensburg, Missouri – March 24, 2018 (March 24, 2017)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – signs (March 24, 2018)

Are we tired of 2nd Amendment overkill (and I do mean kill) yet? (March 24, 2018)

Until this changes… (March 25, 2018)

Until this changes…

25 Sunday Mar 2018

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…nothing will get done.

Yesterday at the March for Our Lives in Kansas City:

“The only thing easier to buy than a gun is a republican senator.”

Register to vote. Get out the vote. Vote in November. If you don’t, you’re the problem.

Previously:

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – in Theis Park on Saturday, March 24, 2018 (March 20, 2018)

Another sign for the times (March 23, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Warrensburg, Missouri – March 24, 2018 (March 24, 2017)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – signs (March 24, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – signs

24 Saturday Mar 2018

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Cold. Windy.

5,000? 7,000? 10,000? Who could tell. It was a lot of people. At a protest event organized by kids.

“I walk for my students and fellow techers.”

“I teach recorder. You don’t want me to have a gun at work.”

“Teachers need funds, not guns.”

“A gun shoud not have more rights than a child.”

“I want my students asking ‘How do I solve this equation?’ not ‘Would you take a bullet for me?'”

“Shooting my mouth off so you won’t shoot me.”

“Help end America’s War on America.”

“Don’t pray for an answer, be the answer.”

“Am I next?”

That’s a very good question. The “adults” have failed to provide an answer.

Previously:

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – in Theis Park on Saturday, March 24, 2018 (March 20, 2018)

Another sign for the times (March 23, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Warrensburg, Missouri – March 24, 2018 (March 24, 2017)

March for Our Lives – Warrensburg, Missouri – March 24, 2018

24 Saturday Mar 2018

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At 8:00 am today sixty individuals gathered on the square in front of the Johnson County Court House in Warrensburg to speak out against gun violence as part of the March for Our Lives demonstrations taking place across the country.

Individuals who wished to speak did so – from the perspective of a student organizer and activist, a retired law enforcement officer, mothers, and a minister.

There were a few curious passersby. After the event individuals who were planning on attending marches later in the day in Kansas City or Columbia gathered to help organize rides for those who needed them.

Another sign for the times

23 Friday Mar 2018

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A sign for tomorrow’s March for Our Lives:

“21 to Buy a Gun, Make it the Law”

There’s a March for Our Lives event tomorrow at Theis Park (just south of the Nelson Atkins Museum) in Kansas City from noon to 4:00 p.m. This to coincide with hundred of marches across the country.

There are also planned marches in Lee’s Summit, Warrensburg, Springfield, Columbia, and St. Louis.

Previously:

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – in Theis Park on Saturday, March 24, 2018 (March 20, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – in Theis Park on Saturday, March 24, 2018

20 Tuesday Mar 2018

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In case you haven’t already heard, there’s a March for Our Lives event at Theis Park (just south of the Nelson Atkins Museum) in Kansas City from noon to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 24th. This to coincide with hundred of marches across the country.

There are also planned marches in Lee’s Summit, Warrensburg, Springfield, Columbia, and St. Louis.

As of this writing the social media site for the Kansas City march indicates that over 3500 individuals have confirmed that they will attend and that almost another 10,000 are interested in attending.

The social media page also has announcements and a place for questions and discussions. Inevitably for protest movements on social media opposition trolls also show up in the comments. In response to a question asking if the Kansas City Police Department will have a presence at the march (they will) a troll taunted:

You want to take everyone’s guns, but be protected by guns? Hypocrites

Uh, the police always show up when several thousand people protest in public. Even when the protesters are armed.

A couple of other trolls joined in with their indignation. Gee, they believe they need all those firearms in case a tyrannical government (they get to choose who and when apparently) needs to be overthrown by their force of arms. There is the small matter of not having an air force, but they always seem to ignore that.

It probably galls them that the tyranny of the NRA could possibly be overthrown by people showing up and voting on Election Day.

Where to start? Well, you’re already losing when you’re trolling at a site for an event that’s anticipating thousands of participants. Perhaps they could start their own pro-NRA march and see who shows up. But they won’t because they already know what’ll happen. Not much.

The reality is that a lower percentage of American households have firearms. Gun manufacturers have to sell their wares to a saturated market. Fear goes a long way to getting someone to buy more of something that usually takes a very long time to actually wear out. Hence the significant, but much smaller, number of individuals who have acquired more than one firearm.

The only individuals who actually have something to fear are the elected officials who, at the behest of the NRA, continue to ignore the will of the vast majority of their constituents. If that majority shows up and votes.