You can't make this crap up: as we reel from 59 dead and over 500 injured

[Atticus]

by a crazy man who lugged "over a dozen" rifles with high capacity magazines up to his 32nd floor hotel room, Republicans in Congress are trying to LEGALIZE SILENCERS and Trump has blocked a regulation, proposed by President Obama, that would have required those who have been ruled incompetent to handle their own affairs and those who are receiving Social Security due to mental illness to have a MANDATORY security check before getting a gun.

I know that's a long sentence, so read it again. Is this insanity or what?

An acronym from WWII seems very appropriate: SNAFU!

[Still In Wisconsin]

1. And you can add my (USMC) dad's favorite acronym to that: FUBAR! n/t

[Atticus]

3. And my dad would have replied "Semper Fi!" nt

[MFM008]

21. My USAF dad always said

"Dumb son of a bitch's"....

[csziggy]

2. We're headed to FUBAR

Far beyond SNAFU.

[ProudLib72]

4. Nope, not insanity

It's exactly what conservatives have always wanted, and they aren't going to let 59 dead stand in their way.

Insanity is voting conservative. Insanity is letting conservatives loose on the streets. True insanity is letting conservatives gain control over our government.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Insanity is not understanding that the party with ONE more rep controls EVERYTHING

[SergeStorms]

16. And that.....

a "president" who was abetted by a hostile foreign country remains in office, even though he's messed up everything he's touched beyond belief.

[lpbk2713]

8. And insanity is voting against one's own interests.

They'll do it every time.

[Soxfan58]

25. Einstein said

"Insanity is doing the same thing over, and over expecting a different result". Like trickle down economics

[ProudLib72]

30. Einstein was a liberal

I'm sure in the fourth or fifth decade trickle down economics will begin to work.

[bdamomma]

6. Republicans should burn

in Hell, their words are as cheap as tRump's are. I really hope the choke on that greed.

[raven mad]

7. And from Viet Nam.........

FUBAR.

[Kaleva]

9. Silencers are already legal and have been for decades.

Most everyone here at DU could buy one if they wanted.

[lunatica]

10. It is insanity. No question about it.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. The analogy I see

is that in the corporate world, if you're going to do something unpopular or takeover something popular,
you must devalue the target in the public's mind so as to reduce resistance and blowback on you.

American values are being devalued.

So I don't think these things are done willy-nilly, but the end-game if any remains unclear.

[lancelyons]

12. This is where the media and us need to expose the Republicans.

This is where the media and us need to expose the Republicans.

They have bad ideas and this is an example of some.

[pansypoo53219]

13. extreme trophy hunting. brilliant.

[tiptonic]

14. 300

There are over 300 million people, in this country, as best as I can remember. There is at least one gun, for each of us. That scares, the hell out of me. Semper Fidelis.

[Loyd]

15. I'm not Reeling

Reeling is something you do when something unprecedented occurs, when something completely out of the ordinary happens. A mass shooting in this country, regardless of body count, is like a fight breaking out in a hockey game: people will condemn it, deplore it, and then do nothing to prevent the next one.

[SoCalDem]

17. SS kicks in @ 65..he was 64..n/t

[world wide wally]

18. And they shed their crocodile tears so people think they give a fuck

[sandensea]

19. SNAFU? This is an all out FUBAR.

And worst of all, almost certainly not the last of such incidents.

[JBoy]

20. Past SNAFU, definitely FUBAR, sadly also BOHICA. N/t

[oswaldactedalone]

28. Also SUSFU

applies here as well.

[Initech]

22. And the religious right is resorting to their usual "blame the victim for something" crap.

[bitterross]

23. Don't forget this is the same crowd that fought all the way to SCOTUS for domestic abusers

They fought all the way to the Supreme Court to try to keep the right for domestic abusers to own firearms.

Their love of guns is more important than anything else to them.

[PJMcK]

24. A minor point

Atticus, we are in absolute agreement on the point of your OP.

However, your comment that "...a crazy man who lugged "over a dozen" rifles with high capacity magazines up to his 32nd floor hotel room..." cannot be left without a simple observation. Most hotels have luggage carts and valets to move your "luggage" to your 32nd floor room.

[Pacifist Patriot]

27. I agree with you.

Having spent more than my fair share of time in convention hotels and traveling in general, I can easily see how someone could move an arsenal into a hotel room without raising a single eyebrow.

[mfcorey1]

26. KICK&REC

[niyad]

29. for a crazy man, he was definitely a planner