Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/texas-red-flag-laws-mass-shootings-suicide-prevention/

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I guess those Texan officials have found a way to deal with the unwanted children.
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I will want to learn what parents of innocent victims say.
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May karma visit florida and stay!
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Surprise;

Which area of the US has the most guns?
Texas
Which State Has the Most Guns? Texas is estimated to have more guns than any other state: 1,005,555, with just over 29 million residents.
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Greg Abbott is no a Christian. He’s a hypocrite.
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Never forgive and never forget the Republicans utter betrayal of the Constitution and America for #TraitorTrump and #Project2025... VOTE THEM ALL OUT IN 2026 and 2028.
Remind young voters what NOT voting cost them, their grandparents, sick and pregnant friends and younger siblings. GET OUT THE VOTE!
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Well yeah, if domestic abusers couldn't have guns, that would disarm most of our cops here. 🙄 Gods, I'm tired of living in Texas.
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Texas ENCOURGES school shootings.
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We must protect our God-given 2ndAmendment right to sell high-death capacity weapons to any Schlump in possession of spontaneous respirations and a functioning trigger finger.
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Texas not DC needs the national guard.
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Time to vote Gov 5 Seats out, Texas. He keeps selling us out.
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We never learn. The first school shooting I heard of was in Oregon, 1998 at Thurston High School, Springfield Or. Kip Kinkle killed two and injured 25. 😢 Reasonable protective laws are needed. Ban military grade weapons.
www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/oregon-gun-laws-mass-shootings-timeline/283-b92fd8ac-17da-4035-ad35-576447733a57
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Hoping Greg Abbott, Trump, MAGA, GOP, Republicans, White Christian Nationalists, White Christian Separatists, White Christian Supremest, Nazi, & Hitler-wannabes all find comfort that when they die no one will cry; instead, the devil will welcome you with open arms while escorting you to her fire pit
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Brilliant!
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Gee, I wonder who Gov Abbott's base is...
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What is wrong with the GOP?
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F*ck this state. I freaking hate it so much. And don't say, "just leave!" If I could I would. Someone wanna sponsor my family?
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Red flag laws will be weaponized by fascists while the police completely ignore the intent of the law and use it to assault the most vulnerable communities.

bsky.app/profile/moose13.bsky.social/post/3lv33mmb6is2o
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I thought Florida was bad it doesn't hold a candle to texas the mini communist state of America
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Texas is full of unhinged people.
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They’re giving up any pretext of caring about children.
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He’s the worst governor in the country!!
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He has tough competition.
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Now we know why it’s so cheap there
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Psycho State ruled by crackpots.
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I don't expect the National Guard to be deploying to Texas anytime soon.
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Murder suicides should start with the suicide
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Sometimes, in the the sheer number of news like this, it feels like the good people have lost.
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With all those dumbasses concentrated in texas, doesn't it figure!
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What is with Abbott and Texas in general???

Do they just say; smart people said we should do this…so let’s do the opposite!
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😡😡😡😡
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MSM should start asking maga, name a situation that would warrant banning someone from having a firearm.
I doubt there are any.
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Because of course they did. I hate it here.
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Texas is happy to let people die if it means more gun sales.
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Texas and Florida. You can't make this shit up.
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Yeah, no. I don't think I'll visit the US anywhere in the near future. Maybe when I've pensioned and have nothIng left to lose.
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Bravo Texas! population control should start early..!
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GOP is the 100% tolerance party for school schootings and pedophilia. Why do they hate children so much?
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Yet complain about low birth rates
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The horrors continue to mount. This is insane.
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You think the GOP cares about women, unborn zygotes and kids, but somehow making it harder to prevent school shootings and domestic violence is just a minor oversight?
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The blatant disregard Gov. Abbott and the Republicans have for their fellow Americans is truly sickening. Their submissiveness to the gun lobby has directly sent Americans to their graves in the most violent of ways. While pontificating about mental health issues needing to be dealt with they 1/
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wilfully engender further mass shootings by failing to take the most basic and logical steps to stop same. It should not go unacknowledged that the malevolence of the Shooters is chillingly echoed in the callous lack of action chosen by Gov. Abbott et al. as they pander to their greed rather 2/
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With every decision/law the GOP makes, they prove again and again that they were never about ‘saving the children’.
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I’m guessing this is what Texans voted for.
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Texas really should just secede- then they could just shoot each other and leave the rest of us out of their twisted mess of a state.
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Gerrymandering makes Texas look more republican than it actually is. Democrats outnumber Republicans in voter registration, with 8,133,683 registered Democrats compared to 6,601,189 registered Republicans in Texas. Dan Crenshaw District 54 is a prime example.
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Agree
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They need the federal funding, dependent on it
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Texas is a state dominated by people of color. The minority population is paranoid about them taking power and well they should.
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Yes please leave Texas and take the other lunatic red states with you.
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They wouldn't last half a year b4 they're crawling back, begging to be let back in. They don't have the infrastructure to be independent.
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I get what you are saying but 60-70% of voters in the state vote blue. They just need to get them to vote at the same time
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Does anyone ever wonder what makes some people SO STUPID & RECKLESS 😵‍💫
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They are assuming that only PoC will be shot. They ignore the statistics.
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More access to weapons = more profits for manufacturers.
Outright evil !!!
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Because shootings build character. 🙄😬
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Who would have thought keeping guns away from cowards like domestic violence abusers would be a good thing? Apparently the rest of the civilized world - but not Texas the center for racism and misogyny. Of course if they made that law there would be a massive disarming of #Maga-Morons.
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Abbott hands out guns like Halloween candy.
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He/They want to kill as many people as possible starting with children easy targets!
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Why would anyone live there? The US is bad, but Texas is cataclysmic.
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Well if Texans keep electing fools they get what they deserve
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Not all of us vote for them! 😡🤬🖕🏼
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They're insane.🤬
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⭐️ = rating. Not a symbol.
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Abbott bitter devil 😈
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Unsaid by the professional anti-gun industry, is that Texas wants to prohibit "Red Flag" laws that bypass that little Constitutional thing we're all entitled to called "Due Process". Too many of the states' RF laws allow confiscation of firearms just on someone's say-so, with no court appearance.
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Abbot , paxton , trump, incredibly, diabolical, evil and sick
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There are people out of Texas that I love, Beto💙, Jasmine 💙, oh heck many, I won’t give up on Texas
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Personally, I’ve thought they were arming themselves. For quite a while they’ve been passing laws that encourage multiple guns/owner and opens up ownership to fanatics. They’re creating a civilian army for later use.
Watch out NYC!
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Exactly!
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They are pure EVIL
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Please, mess with Texas!
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How is it these people are “pro-life”??
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As if I needed another reason to never set foot on Stolen Native Land #leadallergy
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Less future voters..
Just saying, and if the law is the reason they get shot, most likely less Republicans..
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They want us all dead. 🤬
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At some point, major karma is coming for this state.😣
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Texas is f..ked up about allowing guns to everyone and everywhere. Republicans love their guns. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Thinking about it, this is not surprising. They are, after all, being led by pedophiles and rapists. So it stands to reason that they would not have a problem with seeing more children killed on their watch.
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Does he want the Wild West? Did he forget Wyatt Earp murdered people at the OK Corral to enforce gun control? Why didn't he call the national guard to save drowning children? Free Rep. Collier!
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School shootings especially but all shootings in general help promote an atmosphere of fear and desperation that Republicans thrive in.
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But in this logic, the reaction would be to send the national guard to Texas. This id not going to happen. Fight on crime is highly selective.
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There is no way in hell I would ever move to Texas.
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You know how when you enter a state you'll see a big sign saying " Welcome to *insert state here*"?

I drove into Texas from Oklahoma. The first sign i saw was a huge billboard advertising a XXX Porn shop
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I'm glad I dodged that bullet, (no pun intended). I'm British, and before Trump's first term, I was given the opportunity to relocate to my company's Houston office. They even flew me over for a look around. I said thanks, but no thanks (and for the record I'm a white European).
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I’ll never visit USA again, let alone live there, precisely because of all the un/hinged people with guns, it’s just so scary how people can live surrounded by so much potential violence every single day.

Maybe GOP leaders might change their tune if some of these unhinged shooters came their way.
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Hell, I won't even visit there.

I made my last trip down there in 2005. Some idiot in a Hummer was waving a gun to merge into traffic.

Telecons after that. Texas is a shithole country.
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would not either. Not in 100 years. But I just read 60% of the population are people of color Blacks asians Muslims Jews Latino X and indigenous. And all the Caucasians aren't all Republicans. It's the white Christian nationalist who are spending billions to keep their minority in control
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I won’t even use eBay shipping from there.
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Now HOLD ON..
Wait one damn min…
(Okay, fair point)
So…
Where are you that’s so great?
And …got a spare room I could use…for a few years?
😬
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What an asshole
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They are such a lost and demented segment of our society, to the point Texas should be closed off from the rest of America until they get their shit together. No one in or out until they settle down. No settle, no crossings.

Lol. A girl can dream radically. 😁
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It's almost like the MAGA cult doesn't care… oh, wait.
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Frig. Was done so that the politicians there could keep theirs!
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Texans refused funding for flood early warning systems because the money was coming from Biden. That's how fucking dumb they are, so no surprise. Way to go Texas, you pack of dumb ducks.
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Move!!
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Why? I just don’t get it.
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What the f*ck are those dumb scum suckers thinking!!!?????
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you realize when the state had the worst church shooting to date the solution wasn’t to address guns it was to pass a law requiring any place of worship if it chose to post a sign not allowing them inside otherwise they are permitted, school shootings got fences built around the buildings
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Are they the ones that are nuts?
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Totally unhinged and demented.
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America is such an odd place.
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NRA OWNS GOP, End NRA, Corrupt, launders Russian money bsky.app/profile/chrisjustice01.bsky.social/post/3lktqvod3fk2a
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Please take your folks and go live in fing Russia.
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Makes sense since the government leaders in Texas are themselves unhinged.
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If Trump were at all serious about violent crime, he’d institute strict gun control. Yet I haven’t heard one reporter ask him why he hasn’t done this.
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He's unhinged!
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P.W.G.s
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Terrible...unbelievable.
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Such Important Reporting
Thank you!

Makes my heart so sad for all the unnecessary future victims of gun violence
Lives that will be cut short when could have different
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We have an unhinged governor, a brazenly liar Lt. Governor, & a thug AG. They appear to be there for eternity, since we don’t have term limits & Texans are morons that keep voting these idiots in. So, yes, we will become the Wild West again, and no, trump won’t send in the guard…red state!
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I’m in tears!
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Texas is so unhinged - if a hurricane hits - Abbott will decide it is cheaper to shoot people rather than send relief. It is crazy there.
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Unhinged people can get guns? I guess Abbott can get a gun now. F'ing coward cheating lying lunatic idiot that he is.
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Unfathomable!
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Gotta keep selling those guns! Gotta keep those uppity women in line!🥵🤮
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Idiotic
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Gov hot wheels and those other dumbasses are going to rely on thoughts and prayers, you know how well those work. They probably wouldn’t do anything if it happened to their own kids, look steve scalise, he almost got killed but still does nothing on gun control.
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They like getting shot at. Look at Donald….he thinks it’s cool that his ear got shot off. Pffff
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They have the Ten Commandments to protect them. 🤨
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Some people think it's important that their children learn to survive in a free fire zone. Others are sane. Kind of a harsh way to prove Darwin's theories, especially when his teachings are banned from the curriculum. Just the more rudimentary quick and the dead. MAGA 101.
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Texas where the insane can own and use a gun against its citizens!
Tell me why you keep voting Republican?
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EASY...THEY WANT THIS. THEY ARE THRILLED AT WHAT'S GOING ON, BX THEY THINK ITS NEVER GOING TO AFFECT THEM ADVERSELY...THE LEOPARDS WONT BE EATING THEIR FACES, JUST OURS.
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So, they didn't lose enough lives in the flood plain?
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Abbott and Texas going the extra mile to help people die.
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To what benefit?
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Crippled legs, crippled brain, crippled soul.
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The gun lobby's money is more important than school safety according to Texas Repugliputins.
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Guns have more rights than people
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Makes perfect sense to me!
When does the killing start? Can people sue abbott for the unnecessary loss of family/friend?
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😡😡😡😡😡😡
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Dumb
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Never ceases to amaze me!
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The wall is definitely positioned too far south.
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WTAF Texans?
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WOW - BRILLIANT!!
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If they started shooting Republicans... there would be a different choice.
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STUPID MF'S
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Vote out that turd.
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Shocker.
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They & the NRA are evil & Putin’s puppets - doing what he wants to happen to the USA!
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WTAF is wrong with these assholes?
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Maga: Guns don't kill. People with mental health issues kill

Maga: Let's give guns to the mentally ill people

And that's how you solve America's gun death epidemic
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What the fuck for?? Make it make sense!
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Please get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC what you think about guns. Don't wait until Nov. 2026. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
www.nationalfinancialplan.com
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Dear Texas, STOP voting for people who don't care if you live or die!
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They're getting a replacement process for the immigrants and disaster victims with molester, abusers, and murders, who by the way, can't vote.
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They truly are the Guns Over People "party"... 🤬
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Since the school children murdered were not the children of republican politicians they don't really matter. 👇NRA contributions matter much more.
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How does the GOP banning this law make any sense? Allowing unhinged people to keep their guns makes everyone unsafe esp. kids in school.
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Speechless. This is so disgraceful.
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Makes sense, because that's half of Texas.
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Well, hell, the people that sell the guns have to make a living, you know.
Living
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Strike September 17. Don’t go to work if possible. By nothing or at most buy local. Go yo @generalstrikeus
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The Texas government is insane.
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What the fuck is this headline, Mother Jones? Why the ableism ("unhinged") when you mean domestic abusers?
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Pro-life they call themselves.
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Like someone just chatted here earlier: they are not pro-life they are “pro birth”. They want to keep their women barefoot & pregnant. Keeping “their women” out of the workforce right? Such cowards!
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#ReleaseEpsteinTrumpFiles
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Well, otherwise half of the population wouldn’t be able to have a gun.
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Sigh. Stupid Abbott.
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It figures that people like Abbott and his ilk don’t give a shit about protecting civilians from gun violence - he has security.
www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Abbott-travels-extensively-with-taxpayer-funded-6681940.php
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Greg Abbot is demented and has no legs to stand on. He sits on his brains. I wonder why Texans ain’t voting out those pathetic republicans
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Power-Control=More Money For Them. The heck with the rest of us!
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How much has the gun lobby paid for this?
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Protection for unhinged, abusive, racists. Maybe the motto should change from “Don’t mess with Texas” to “Don’t live in Texas.”
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Texas has lost its mind ‼️‼️
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Texas: Guns, God & government.
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American Taliban- rules made up as you go…
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😡😡😡
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Abbott is a evil asshole!
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Guessing this makes the revolution easier in Texas, y’all.
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Abbott has turned Texas into a HELL HOLE!
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Who are these people? Their families live in this state as well. Are they just banking on the odds against these horrendous crimes happening to those near and dear to them? Turns out the flood hill country casualties are on them too, as they looked away from the river flood zoning for camps. Sick
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Very simple. If you give a shit but still live in Texas, look in the mirror when something happens and know you are looking at the person to blame.

I left a state because of the politics of the state, never regretted it!

It can be done if your safety hinges on it or worse, your kids safety does!
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Guns and God? What a shithole state.
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The tree had one job
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#America is by far the most dysfunctional society on the planet. What a shit show
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The last (possibly only) school shooting here in the UK was in 1996.
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I'm not an expert on the US constitution, but it isn't the second amendment, the only one that has never been changed? Why is that? Why are people so obsessed with guns that they can't even conceive of making gun ownership safer for everyone? Shouldn't the safety of all outweigh the choice of some?
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Of course. 🙄
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Some of us would call all TX GOP as unhinged?
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I would never live in TX
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It would unarm the massea
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Of course, Texas.
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Texas is going to Darwin itself out of extistance.
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The guys that care about women, unborn zygotes and child r°°pists by clergy and creeps wouldn't do that. No way.
#DailyWire
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Well when the people of texas have had enough they will throw out the trash that is in office.
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"Pro life" party
party that "protects kids"

fuckin shameful
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