Here’s the Benton County, Arkansas Republican Party in response to the expansion of Medicaid in the state:
If we can’t shoot them, we have to at least be firm in our threat to take immediate action against them politically, socially, and civically if they screw up on something this big. Personally, I think a gun is quicker and more merciful, but hey, we can’t.
HAHAHAAAAAA! HILARIOUS!
Gee, you know, I wonder why American kids are going around shooting crowds of people and constructing bombs out of pressure cookers. Maybe it’s not just video games or mental health. Maybe it’s because Lindsey Graham doesn’t want background checks to buy an AR-15 on the internet — de facto permission to go for it. Maybe it’s that at least half of our elected leaders and one of the two major political parties can’t effing act like rational grownups and instead need to invade other countries and joke about shooting political enemies. Maybe that’s part of the problem. When our political representatives are incapable of peacefully debating and negotiating policies, and instead have to resort to bellicose hyperbole and military action, it becomes less of a mystery why we’re seeing so much mass violence these days.