"I grew up in the 1960s and 70s. There were almost no school shootings, and I was raised in a pretty tough city in New Jersey. Nobody worried about being shot in school. Make that NOBODY. Did these things happen on the rare occasion? Of course, but almost never. And when they did, people — Republicans and Democrats — were appropriately outraged by it, and vowed to make sure they would do everything possible to make sure it never happened again. Because what kind of society would we be living in, if we accepted the slaughter of our children in their classrooms, as business as usual in America? What kind of society would we be if the best that one of the two major parties could offer up in response to these killings, was some stupid prayer. So no, shootings weren’t a major problem when I was growing up, because there weren't all these guns that Republicans have since eagerly introduced. Again, please don’t get this twisted. And let me duck in here and ask a quick question: Do you want more guns, or less guns? I bet you want less guns, because you care about our children. Everything should be done to protect our children. Democrats believe that. Republicans don’t."
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D. Earl Stephens, GOP has no one to blame but themselves for this unspeakable horror — and they know it", Alternet, 29 August 2025
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