September 16, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
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A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
It’s a testament to the Recall of two State Senators in Colorado. The Cult of the Gun can celebrate their call for more Unrestricted Gun Violence
1Safe here. Home sick today. Late husband once worked at the Navy Yard. He considered it a strange place; one part that should have been bulldozed eons ago and the other part good since it held the housing for the Marine Corps Commandant. Tells ya somethin’ doesn’t it.
2@maggie: It’s the new development around the Navy Yard that makes me gasp. The building of the new Nats stadium and the development of the riverfront has/is being carried out in record time. I still ride down 14th Street (which you folks from out of town need to know was almost completely destroyed in the 1968 riots and remained that way for 30 years) with my mouth hanging out. It’s become Hipsters Heaven, with new condos going up every week–Justice Sotomayor just bought one earlier this year–and new restaurants opening up practically every day. Just amazing.
3@Barb in DC and @Maggie, so good to hear both of you are okay. My wife, Susan and I are having a somewhat normal Monday here at DOE HQ. Best wishes.
4Barb, yup, I am aware that a lot of redevelopment took place just outside the Navy yard. However, I still am not taken with all the glitz. There is still something sad hanging over the area ever since the Marine Corps Commandant of years ago took his own life. Now its sadder still! I have Channel 8 running on the teevee and I am more and more convinced that this will have some similarity with the Boston bombing in that there was a huge group of people all gathered in one place and only perhaps two — maybe 3 — miscreants. The teevee keeps playing the interview with the Commander who evacuated his building only to witness the murder of the man talking to him. Never saw the shooter. Must be someone with some marksmanship ability.
5Just checked with my sister in the DC area, retired postal inspector (law enforcement) now a contract trainer for the inspection service. She’s safe.
6Also just heard via MSNBC that as-yet-unidentified dead gunman is a 34 year old male from Texas. Damn.
Yup, 12 folks dead and the gunman believed to be a 34-year old from Texas. He was reported to be “heavily armed” . Still no word on his motive.
Well, he’s dead now, too … doubt they’ll be hearing what his motive might have been unless someone else can fill in that detail to the authorities. I’m not seeing that the other possible suspects … a white guy and a black guy … have been caught or, as they call it, “neutralized.” Or as we would call it: shot in the friggen’ head!!
7The white guy in the tan outfit with the beret has now been cleared as a suspect. Still looking for the other guy. I am positive that they had a clear, safe getaway path marked out. I know the Navy Yard is just plain large but I would bet the last suspect is outside the walls and blending in somewhere. At least the local cops have their dogs at all the local subway stations.
8Pray for peace in people’s hearts and minds.
9Once again, we can thank the NRA, for one more massacre, and more people shot by a guy who probably should never have been allowed near a gun.
Lord. Will it ever end?
10Maybe someone can explain to me how – if gunmen can take down a dozen or more people in a secure government facility – what kind of protection kids will get from their teachers being armed.
11It will stop when someone shoots up the house chamber in the capital, or kills a congressman or two.
12Where were the good guys with the guns? Don’t tell me they were there, and the bad guy was stopped. That’s cold comfort – pun intended – for those lying on a slab in the morgue.
Sorry. I’m angry.
I hate guns
13UPDATE: 12 dead in Navy Yard shootings; dead gunman Aaron Alexis, 34, from Texas
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2013/sep/16/police-responding-reported-shooter-navy-yard/
Texas again. I can’t wait for all the mayhem in the media to begin.
14Aaron Alexis, 34, from Texas. Former seaman.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24120333
When did killing a bunch of strangers become so fashionable?
15Don’t talk to me about the 2nd amendment.
16The right to live is paramount and everything else is secondary. We have to storm the gun manufacturers. That’s the only thing that’s going to stop these tragedies.
Okay, here’s a thought: before this, *every one* of these incidents of mass killing has been perpetrated at the hands of a white guy or guys; this dude was black.
Is the NRA still going to yell about protected second amendment rights if it means the black dudes might shoot up *their* families?
Or is the second amendment not going to “count” in this case?
17I’m anticipating the NRA response. “If everyone in the Navy Yard was armed, this wouldn’t have happened”. Yah, right.
18Carlo, I’ve already seen that. Someone countered that a) clerks at desks aren’t armed and b) the NYPD recently tried to stop somebody and shot two bystanders. Apparently this guy got past the security guards…?
All OK here in Greenbelt MD, well away from SE DC.
19Jan, shooting up the House chamber happened way back in the Truman Administration. Some Puerto Ricans opened fire from the gallery. They wanted Puerto Rico to be independent and did not want U.S. statehood. Some Congresscritters did get shot. The shooters were nabbed instantly. There was as I dimly recall a Puerto Rican shooter who was assigned to shoot the President when he left Blair House to go to wherever. The White House at that time was undergoing a massive internal rebuilt and Truman walked everywhere. All the shooters went to prison and I think one or two have since served their time and are out. Back then the NRA did not do their crazy little witch doctor dance about the Second Amendment. Wayne LaPierre was not on board at the time. I think if he had been this country would have gotten a belly full of him, especially since the President was on the hit list. Would he have done his shtick? Yup. Of course. He be crazy. As for Capitol Hill, all visitors to the gallery were frisked before entering the gallery. Nowadays, especially after the shooting in the Rotunda that killed 2 guards, you are frisked upon entering the building. The guy who killed the guards was found to be totally insane and is in a mental institution.
20Jan, point of clarity. All visitors after the House shooting were frisked before entering the House. Up to that time, no one could conceive of anyone carrying weapons, especially in the Capitol.
21And, even with all the security at the Capitol, that didn’t stop a crazy guy with a gun from killing a couple of Capitol policemen a few years ago.
Our gun culture makes us truly insane.
22Lived in DC back in the late 70s (actually Alexandria, right on the Potomac before they tore down the apts to make way for yuppie condos). Loved to walk around beautiful downtown DC (spent bicentennial 4th of July on the Mall. wow!) Went back for the first time last fall. Couldn’t believe all the changes around the WH, Capitol, etc. All the pylons and other security built-ups. Done tastefully, but still ugly and evidently not doing any good. So very sad. Used to be beautiful and open and no fear.
23I hope this hasn’t already been posted on this site…I don’t remember where I found the link to this little article. The article is from ThinkProgress. It’s David Frum (yes, that conservative guy). A series of tweets. The conservative rules for debates on gun control. It’s brilliant & deserves wide circulation. Please note: this is *iroic*. Or *sarcastic*. Definitely not straightforward & serious.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/16/2625881/conservatives-surprising-rules-covering-mass-shootings/
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