Thoughts & Prayers for the Trump supporter Ryan W. Routh, who was arrested with an AK-47 in Florida (Literally, No One Cares about you Donald Trump)

    A non-assassination assassination attempt...  And understand no rightwinger on Twitter gives a fuck about Trump they are focused on blaming Democrats, calling for retribution, and inventing multi-layered conspiracy theories which they can monetize for their influencer brand.

Ryan Wesley Routh a 2016 Trump voter, who donated to key Trump advisor Tulsi Gabbard, and supported Republican Nikki Haley in the 2024 primary was carrying an AK-47 in a State, which not only fetishizes guns but has made it easier each and every year to get one, and enticed people to get more and more guns,

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (WPEC) — Florida’s gun laws are set to change on Saturday, (June 29, 2023) as licensing and training requirements that have been in place for decades have been altered to what's known as "Permitless Carry."  Gov. Ron Desantis originally signed the bill at the beginning of April.

Nearly half of all U.S. states already follow it, according to the U.S. Concealed Carry Association, but not everyone fully understands what's about to change in Florida.

"The biggest misconception is that people think they can carry the gun openly right on their side, just walk down the street. Permitless is not open carry," said Palm Beach County Sheriff' Rich Bradshaw. 

“Get excited. It’s going to be a good idea. It’s awesome for the Second Amendment, our freedom, but at the same time be responsible. It’s not free for all,” said Alex Shkop, who is the president of the Guns and Training Center in West Palm Beach, .

The number of guns in Florida has increased every year for the past five years. The data is based on the number of people with Concealed Weapons Licenses (CWL), according to figures from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. In 2018, that number was at more than 1.9 million Floridians. Fast forward to May 31, 2023 -- there were almost 2.8 million total number of licenses throughout the state.

Republicans don't care to do anything about gun violence.  So...  Should we care?  Sure, having political leaders threatened with gun violence is a massively destabilizing threat to any Nation especially one as fractured as the United States.  But, Donald Trump doesn't care about victims of gun violence as he said after ignoring a shooting in Iowa this year, 

“It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here. But have to get over it, we have to move forward,” 

Actual victims of gun violence and their families have to get over it and move forward.  That's the standard Republicans have established.  Meanwhile, last week Donald Trump continues to make fun of Paul Pelosi, 2 years after he was the victim of an aggravated battery.  

Looks like Routh is suffering some sort of mental illness* but, after voting for Trump in 2016 he became disillusioned with Trump and changed support to Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy earlier this year.  You can read all the breaking revelations the Corporate Media will breathlessly report at whatever your favorite mainstream media site you prefer.  I'm sure there will be calls for a cooling of the heated rhetoric but, remember this is always always a one way street Democrats must be quiet but, Trump and Vance can further inflame their Neo-Nazi followers to threaten Haitian migrants and everyone else in Springfield, Ohio.

But, understand reality has nothing to do with Republicans anymore.  Republicans are aching for blood.  They are yearning to be unleashed to murder elected Democrats, ostracized Trans persons, Harris/Walz supporters, and anyone else they can get away with.  Traitor Trump has no intention of being a martyr but, I know MAGA would love to have Trump get killed because then they would have the unifying Cause they've been looking for as Trump's power, sanity, and mental stability wane.  Trump's death would galvanize the Right.  And the destruction they would unleash across the Nation would spell the end of the Constitutional Republic.

Additional:

In case you were wondering how a mentally ill man would be able to get an AK-47, Trump signed an NRA lauded bill into law in Feb 2017 overturning a President Obama rule stopping mentally ill people from being able to buy guns.

Republicans love when people are shot to death with AR15s (Club Q)

Matt Walsh and Chaya Raichik

They fucking love it.

A 22 year old right-winger with a history of domestic violence and bomb threats, went into Club Q, a renowned LGTBQ nightclub, armed with an AR15 and shot 30 people to pieces, murdering 5 until 2 incredibly brave people tackled him and stopped the latest act of rightwing domestic AR15 terrorism.

Whenever Lauren Boebert, Ted Cruz or any Republican you can think of hears of another mass shooting the first thing they do is find out who was murdered, once Republicans find out it's a group of people they hate like LGBTQ persons or Hispanic schoolchildren, Republicans give an ecstatic little cry of joy, then they type off a little missive of Thoughts&Prayers, then they get ready to cut another Faux News segment where they repeat CHICAGO CHICAGO CHICAGO to distract, and then Republicans go back to Fash Twitter to demonize LGTBQ people.

Then after cashing their latest check from the NRA and Gun Manufacturers Republicans will pose with guns in their Christmas Cards.

Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson, Matt Walsh, Ben SShaprio, Steven Crowder, Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok), and numerous other rightwing propagandists immediately return to demonizing LGTBQ people and stoking rage amongst their followers, whom they've also encouraged to arm themselves with military grade long guns.

I stated that Republicans and Rightwingers were coming to murder Us.  And it's here.  And they aren't going to stop.  Republicans and Rightwingers have declared War on numerous people in America.  Not rhetorical War but, an asymmetrical war where they incite their followers to commit acts of violence.  Republicans were hoping to win more elections and government positions so their paramilitary domestic terrorists could work hand-in-glove with official Law Enforcement but, what they will settle for is more 'lone wolf' mass shootings via stochastic terrorism which Republicans stoke.

Because you can't predict where the next act of Rightwing Domestic Terrorism will be but, you can fucking well guarantee it will happen.

When Republicans offer their "thoughts and prayers" they literally care nothing about gun violence and won't do anything about it (Updated)

As the horrific mass shooting in San Bernadino was ending, Republicans once again offered up their "Thoughts and Prayers". And do you know why?

Because that hollow statement amounts to literally nothing. Go into your pharmacy and pay for your prescription with your "thoughts and prayers" and see how many pills you get. After eating at Ruth Chris Steakhouse tell the manager he has your "thoughts and prayers" and leave. Buy Bill O'Reilly's latest dreck-filled fact avoidant book Killing-Jaysus with your thoughts and prayers and see how long it is before Bill-O calls his Faux News secret police on you.

When the NRA endorses a Republican candidate for Office do they send them their "Thoughts and Prayers"? No, the NRA sends them money. Because the NRA knows "Thoughts and Prayers" are worthless and they want something from the candidates they buy.

The NRA has a Golden Ring of Freedom, which are Corporations who have contributed at least $1 million to the NRA, Gun Makers the Freedom Group, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, and Springfield Armory, as well as 6 Firearm related Corporations are in the Golden Ring of Freedom.

And so, the Gun Makers have been funneling massive amounts of blood-soaked money to the NRA and the Republicans get the blood-soaked money from the NRA and they dutifully vote to allow guns anywhere and everywhere. Go see how much the NRA paid for your Congressman because the Republicans have been bought and bought cheaply.

What Republicans have been doing in exchange for the Golden Ring of Freedom money has been to systematically weaken gun regulations, offer protection to the Gun Industry and ensure that gun makers can enjoy massive profits of the death of 30,000 Americans every year with no fear of retribution.

The NRA and Firearm Manufacturers are feeding the money they make off the deaths of thousands back into the political machine to make deaths by guns more likely.

In 2005, George W(orst President Ever) Bush backed by the Republican Controlled House and Senate at the behest of their NRA masters, passed Legislation making Gun Manufacturers immune to Lawsuits for their Negligence.

Wayne LaPierre stated the 2005 law had been the "No. 1 legislative priority of the National Rifle Association". Of course, the NRA "lobbied lawmakers intensely for it". Sickeningly 59 Democrats joined in the House to pass it a vote of 283 to 144. 

Over at Think Progress, Igor Volsky has catalogued how much the NRA paid the Republican Party to do literally nothing about the flood of guns and the unsurprising resultant mass shootings in America.

We have let an insane hard-core of gun worshiping fanatics, egged on by a blood-soaked Industry fronted by cowardly chicken shit cynical Lobbyists* in the NRA control the gun debate in this Nation. Hence we are flooded with firearms and we have daily mass shootings.

And the Republican Party with their hollow thoughts and prayers constantly let's the American People know they have nothing to offer them and will do nothing about it.

*- Here's some neat facts about Wayne LaPierre and David Keene. LaPierre spent the late 60's and early 70's going to college. As soon as he got his Master's he went to work as a DC Lobbyist. David Keene started work in Washington DC in the late 1960's working for noted Republican criminal Spirio Agnew.  The Leaders of the NRA are Typical Conservatives. They never had a real job. Never worked for a living. Never served a Day in Uniform. Chicken Hawk Cowards who skirted Vietnam to spend 40 years as lobbyists in Washington DC. Just your Average American Conservative.

Update:
Fortunately, the shooting in San Bernadino might motivate Republicans because these gun-wielding killers have scary names Sayeed R. Farouk and Tashfeen Malik, unlike gentle-loner and conservative hero Robert Lewis Dear. So, the only gun control we might get in this country will come in the form of making it illegal for brown and black people to have guns just as the Founding Fathers intended.

Update 2:
On MSNBC Morning Joke, Republican Congressman Max Thornberry of Texas, whose been in office for 20 years, pounded home that Republicans aren't going to do anything about Guns. Eventhough they are the common element in 355 mass shooting in 2015 thus far. Thornberry played the game about the term "assault rifle" and semantics about gun parts that gun nuts bust out to confuse the situation and offered up the canard that Laws won't stop gun violence. As we all know since Laws can't stop crime therefore the only option is to abolish all laws.

What is needed, and what has always been needed, is the Will to Act. The Will to enforce Gun Laws. It's not that the Will is Lacking or that a large segment of Soceity is opposed, it's that the Will of the American People is actively being thrwarted by the Republican Party, who are wholly owned by the blood-soaked NRA.