![]() ![]() ![]() Headliners: SZA, Lizzo, Miguel, Tems, Ice Spice, Mase and Cam'ron Guests/Opening acts: Palehound, Samia, Muna, 100 gecs, Sloppy Jane Guests/Opening acts: Nina Nastasia, My Brightest Diamond Guests/Opening acts: Tokischa, Buscabulla Tour: True Electric 2023 North American Tour Guests/Opening acts: Awolnation, Blame My Youth Guests/Opening acts: Channel Tres, Claptone, Hayden James Headliners: Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, Odesza, Lana Del Rey, Megan Thee Stallion, The 1975, Janelle Monáe, Zedd, Maggie Rogers, Fisher Guests/Opening acts: The Chicks, City and Colour, Katie Tupper Guests/Opening acts: Jenny Lewis, Japanese Breakfast, Weyes Blood, Sir Chloeįather John Misty and the Head and the Heart Headliners: A$AP Rocky, Travis Scott, Playboy Carti Headliners: the Smile, Big Thief, Bon Iver Guests/Opening acts: Interpol, Stone Temple Pilots, Rival Sons Guests/Opening acts: Aimee Mann, Allison Russell Guests/Opening acts: Pat Benatar with Neil Giraldo, Brandi Carlile, Grouplove, KidCutUp Guests/Opening acts: Ben Harper, Wild River Guests/Opening acts: Soccer Mommy, Alvvays Tour: If Y'all Weren't Here, I'd Be Crying Tour Nope, we’ll have to fix this mess the old-fashioned way: Vote the jackwagons out.Guests/Opening acts: Mayday Parade, Story of the Year, Anberlin, This Wild Life We can’t count on them to help, nor can we rely on Jesus. The problem is that too many politicians are owned by the gun lobby. What we really need is for the government to ban assault weapons and create programs to buy back the 20 million already in circulation. As we saw in Uvalde, not even cops can contain the threat. The scary truth: No fence, metal detector or security guard is a sufficient barrier to someone who’s armed with WMDs. I walk my 10-year-old to his classroom every morning. Not unlike how a fourth-grader doesn’t stand a chance against an armed psychopath. Constitution that gives individuals a right to own assault rifles.įurthermore, it’s a fantasy to think they could stand up to a government with the largest weapons cache in the world. Others used the Second Amendment as justification, cherry-picking the part about a state’s “well-regulated militia,” which they’ve bastardized and taken to mean applies to them. When I asked one of the men in my family about it, he told me he was sure that the new administration would come for all guns. Unsurprisingly, the height of their spending occurred after Barack Obama was elected president. Personal protection was way down on the list of reasons to have a firearm, and nobody wielded semi-automatic rifles.īut in recent years, many of those same Jesus-loving family members have gone on WMD buying sprees. Back then, gun ownership was about camaraderie, marksmanship and food, not about stockpiling military arms. I never winced around their deer rifles, shotguns and the occasional pistol. I grew up in a family with many hunters, mostly men but even a few women. What a disgusting, shameful scene in a country in which a large portion of its residents care more about their purported right to own these killing machines-America’s real weapons of mass destruction-than they do the safety of children. The former president of the United States attended that event, read the names of the Uvalde shooting victims, and shortly thereafter danced on stage as though it wasn’t a big deal that some of the dead kids were so disfigured that authorities had to identify them through DNA. Now think what his righteous anger would look like had he walked into the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, a gathering that took place in Houston, just three days after 21 people, including 19 children, were massacred at the rural Texas elementary school. Remember the biblical parable of the money changers and shopkeepers who’d set up at the Temple? Jesus overturned their tables and chairs and drove them out with a whip, and that was because they were using his Father’s house as a market. ![]() If the son of God were around today, one can be certain that those recent heinous events would give new meaning to the phrase “Jesus wept.” I’m also sure he’d be quite pissed off. ![]()
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