tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post6534900589653901283..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: AN MLK APPROACH TO THE GUN CONTROL FIGHT? Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-91894204292391048052015-10-15T10:39:27.525-04:002015-10-15T10:39:27.525-04:00The Mother Who Wants Politicians to See Photos of ...<a href="http://www.thetrace.org/2015/10/gunshot-victim-photos-nardyne-jeffries/" rel="nofollow">The Mother Who Wants Politicians to See Photos of Her Child’s Bullet-Riddled Body</a> (from The Trace).Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-64338285434376039492015-10-12T09:20:34.623-04:002015-10-12T09:20:34.623-04:00Yes, we need to fight. Just as Conservatives have ...Yes, we need to fight. Just as Conservatives have said. They advocate rushing the Gunmen, well the Gun Humping Lunatics, Gun Makers and Republican Party <i>are</i> the Gunmen.Grung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-6556122180323135272015-10-11T15:43:10.700-04:002015-10-11T15:43:10.700-04:00I don't know what to do either, but I wept rea...I don't know what to do either, but I wept reading about Mr. Read and Mr. Samaha.<br /><br />Some way down the list of horrible things is the fact--as I think it is--that media thinks the 'colorful' gun nuts & crackpots make better 'copy' than the fathers and mothers, sisters and of the slain and their stories. <br /><br />I wonder--I don't know--if the now commonplace stories of Mr. Read and Mr. Samaha, their wives and their other children, have crossed the line into popular fictional forms, novels, films, TV programs. Cancer stories are--deservedly--in effect a genre of their own now, and they connect with the experiences of many. So too the stories of those who have lost children to war. There have been so many killings now that there must be thousands, perhaps 10,000s of close relatives of the dead. <br /><br />A story about them, would be heartbreaking, but I expect too 'controversial'. Even if nothing was said about the second amendment, gun control legislation, the NRA or the like, it would be denounced by right wing nuts across the land as wicked liberal propaganda. Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16132840751040682025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-62735096186493526242015-10-11T15:41:24.069-04:002015-10-11T15:41:24.069-04:00Safe to assume you read Alex Pareene's Gawker ...Safe to assume you read <a href="http://gawker.com/the-gun-control-movement-needs-its-own-pro-life-fanatic-1734711064" rel="nofollow">Alex Pareene's Gawker piece</a> from earlier this week? I agree with it; I think if people started picketing gun stores and gun shows with giant photos of corpses, it might have an effect. I also agree that some of them would almost certainly be shot, which is why someone would have to be filming these protests at all times. But it <i>might</i> have an effect.Phil Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05041604069121995890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-651215049518863112015-10-11T14:34:20.521-04:002015-10-11T14:34:20.521-04:00Yes, that might have an impact, the way Emmett Til...Yes, that might have an impact, the way <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/emmett-tills-casket-goes-to-the-smithsonian-144696940/?no-ist" rel="nofollow">Emmett Till's open casket</a> did.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-50129200211943174742015-10-11T13:54:31.472-04:002015-10-11T13:54:31.472-04:00show pictures of the carnage. publicly - even if ...show pictures of the carnage. publicly - even if illegally gained. make the NRA supporters OWN the savagery. pictures of 2nd graders blown apart. small bodies piled upon small bodies.<br /><br />civil rights movements changed when film and pics of the fire hosed protesters and dog-bitten bridge walkers were seen every morning above the fold.JGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04360141184747239556noreply@blogger.com