How would you answer her question?

@ArishMell Indeed, I did say to ignore the antics of the Meidas Touch goof in the ball cap. The guy who was so busy looking at his phone was the one to whom the questions were being directed, Gym Jordan, who obviously thought something on his phone was more important than the questions being asked to him. That a 6 year old child [b]thought[/b] that she needed to ask that question or that she even asked it is particularly scary in that she expects that the same will happen to her eventually, yes, she's a child but are these the questions we want children asking their parents???

@spjennifer It was very difficult to avoid staring down that idiot's throat; but his torrent of over-excited words passed me by as if un-heard.

I was not sure but I did wonder if the one with the phone was the one being asked. It was a phone an assistant brought in and she took it back with her, and I wonder if it was legal or political advice; perhaps not to answer difficult, open questions. He did look worried by the message.

It's very chilling that a young child was so frightened that she might be shot, deliberately, by a complete stranger, that she asked such a question. You might expect it in gangs-ridden Colombia or war-wrecked Syria; but in the United States of America?

How many other children and parents there are thinking similar things?

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As I typed that, with the radio on, the News came of another problem plaguing the USA. A part-natural, part man-made one: long-term drought in the West, but its effects exacerbated by so much water drawn from the rivers for irrigation that there is now not enough to go round and even hydroelectric power is compromised.

@windinhishair tbh, Both sides are guilty in this, neither of them has done anything to prevent the massacre of children happening now. Though it might be unpopular and won't be easy, something does have to be done soonest. It will take courage on the part of someone to stand up and say STOP! No matter which party they are from, does no one care what is happening? If you read the text of my OP carefully, I wasn't trying to assign blame, simply showing that someone is trying to do something and Eric Swalwell is right in what he says here.

@redredred More whataboutism from you, is that all you have? are you an adult, a parent? It doesn't matter what the skin colour of the children is nor where they live, most of the kids in Uvalde were of Mexican descent and they were murdered too, this has nothing to do with skin colour ffs.

@spjennifer Democrats have passed legislation at the House level many times, but Republicans always obstruct it in the Senate.

@SomeMichGuy And that is part of the problem, they never respond because they have no answers 😖

@spjennifer They are the party of No...

No answers
No progress
No nothing

@Spunkylama BTC is a well known shill for the Democrats but in this case both he and Eric Swalwell are right, it's far past time to "Radically change the Country" and stop putting children in the fucking ground!

@redredred Nice deflection try. Whataboutism is when you Republicans know that you are 100% wrong on an issue, and have no answer to it, so you create a false equivalency to discuss a completely unrelated topic.

@redredred It is profoundly sad that you don't even care about dead children (or adults) if your gun fetish and worship is threatened. Sad, but given your previous comments, not at all surprising.

@windinhishair You don’t hate guns you just want them in government hands. You know, government like Uvalde police or Waco or Wounded Knee

@redredred Uh-huh. Yeah, right. And you want them in the hands of people like yourself who long ago gave up their souls for their gun worship.

Oh, and it figures you would support David Koresh and Waco. Koresh was a pedophile. He could have run for public office as a Republican and won handily.

@LordShadowfire Me either, I sure wasn't able to listen to it without it affecting me though! 😥