One day after an armed man killed the right -wing influencer Charlie Kirk, the Internet was on fire in the recriminations: the exhortations of the center and the left so that the two sides “lower the temperature”, the calls of the president and his supporters on the right to an exact revenge on the liberals (despite the unknown and generally attacker).
This is how the mass or the particularly high shooting routine takes place – a mad race to reveal the identity of the suspect (sometimes claiming the privacy and reputation of the innocents along the way), to better pin the violence on a political party or the other. It is worth asserting, because some experts seem to find rude, that it is simply true that the right -wing extremists have killed many more people and tended to be more violent than their left -wing counterparts in recent decades.
However, it is striking that the discussion on firearms, the tools practically always used to achieve this violence, almost fell from the national discourse. Even democrats barely take the trouble to talk about it.
I suspect that it is the malignant influence of the Supreme Court at work. Even when a republican administration can be moved to pass a restriction, its shelf life is limited.
In 2017, the shooting of the Las Vegas music festival was so particularly horrible that even the Trump administration was awakened to the action. The office of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives (ATF) adopted the rule of ban on bumps, classifying the device as a machine gun and therefore illegal. A few years later, the Supreme Court overthrew it.
The Court of Roberts has considerably widened the second amendment – once thought to speak to the militias – in an individual right to have firearms at home. He overturned the hundred -year -old hidden transport law of New York, expanding the ability of people to stuff firearms in public. (He drew the line to let the domestic attackers carry firearms – except for judge Clarence Thomas.)
The court adapted to firearms made an almost impossible Sisyphean feat. We have a republican congress that is quite unlikely to adopt significant legislation to stem the scourge of armed violence, supported by a Supreme Court which considers the second amendment as untouchable.
It seems that it is a lost cause. However, abandon the subject heading a significant terrain on the right. The United States is not the only country in Hyper-Partisanerie and an irresponsible and dike leader. These are the pistols.
– Kate Riga
GOP REP wants a statue of Charlie Kirk
In the wake of the murder of the co-founder of Turning Point USA and online provocative Charlie Kirk, some Republicans put pressure on the type of commemorations often reserved for elected officials, military personalities and civil rights activists. Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R -FL) – who previously worked for Tpusa – sent a letter to the president of the Mike Johnson room (R -La) asking her to help create a Kirk status for the American Capitol.
“It is not a symbolic gesture, but a permanent testimony of the work of his life, his courage and his sacrifice,” Luna wrote in the letter to Johnson. “This will remind you that the political disagreement should never be responded violently and that the struggle for the truth must continue.”
Trump ordered that the flags are also stolen from half of the staff following the shooting.
– Nicole Lafond
Tales of a different democracy
Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil and the political and spiritual ally of Donald Trump, was found guilty this afternoon for his own plot to stay in office after his loss during the elections.
“The government wanted to stay in power by simply ignoring democracy – and that is what constitutes a coup d’etat,” said Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday. “The leader of the criminal group has clearly indicated – publicly and according to his own words – that he would never accept defeat by election, a democratic loss in the elections, and that he would never respect the will of the people.”
The conviction took place over several days, when the judges announced their decisions one by one.
“They acted to divert the soul of the Republic,” said judge Cármen Lúcia, who launched the third deciding vote.
Brazil came out of a military dictatorship in 1985 and the prosecutors argued that the conviction of Bolsonaro was necessary to prevent a return at that time.
The former president will be sentenced this week and risks decades in prison.
– John Light
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