“Have a plan to kill everyone you meet because you never know…”

Fuck thoughts & prayers, be ready to kill. - the new GOP platform for mass shootings.

Nine more dead at the hands of a man armed with an assault rifle. Allen, Texas this time.

The victims had unknowingly rolled the dice on living or dying because they chose to go shopping in an outlet mall on a Saturday afternoon.

Another mother died shielding her child from semi-automatic gunfire in the state of Texas.

And while the predictable “Heidi & I” tweets

came pouring in from the likes of Ted Fucking Cruz, there was a new response… one which has been evolving for quite some time - that we have to accept that shootings like these are inevitable, and that we have to be prepared to kill in order to save ourselves and our loved ones from dying.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1655030412425478147?s=46&t=0jhpxQw9pD9FCcEuf7-TIQ

“Have a plan to kill everyone you meet”

Since apparently it needs to be said, this is Fucking bananas. This isn’t how this is supposed to work in a civil society folks. We aren’t supposed to go to the f’ng Nike outlet with our kiddos on a sunny Saturday afternoon armed with our own AR-15s and a “plan” to kill everyone we meet. We just aren’t.

Some 2A gun nuts have been pointing out to me that I am “choosing” to live in fear. That when I tweet:

You can’t go to work, to the MALL, to the grocery store, to your church, to the movies or the bank.

You can’t attend a concert, go to a dance class or go to see your doctor. You can’t ring a doorbell, use a leaf blower, hop in a car, pull down a driveway, bounce a ball, or ask the neighbor to keep it down.

You can’t check out a farmer’s market or mail something at the post office or go to a parade, and you certainly can’t send your kids to school without worrying that someone will get shot.

That someone you LOVE will get shot.

Or that YOU will get shot.

This is where we are now.

This is not normal.

And this is not fucking ok.

It’s NOT fucking ok.”

That this is me “CHOOSING to give into fear”.

As if I am “choosing” this.