Comments by "girl from the bronx by way of el barrio" (@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288) on "ABC News" channel.

  1. The Heller decision seemed to go down that path, but Scalia's opinion clearly states that gun rights are not unlimited. The Bruen opinion was quite a disappointment, especially because it attempted to dismantle a 100+ year law, in keeping with this SCOTUS tendency to ignore long standing precedent. But even Breun provides for gun regulations. That's why strict gun control still exists in NYS. The governor and the legislature only needed to change language slightly to fit new SCOTUS language. The framers never would have supported the concept that irresponsible individuals claiming unlimited rights they do not have should be able to victimize the people of the USA with fear of constant unregulated violence and mass shootings. A more balanced SCOTUS is coming. Thomas is not immortal. Another opinion to move gun regulations closer to the pre Heller understanding of the amendment will come. The pendulum always swings. You are on the wrong side of history. The majority of the USA population supports comprehensive federal gun safety legislation.
    3
  2. Well regulated is included in the first clause of the second amendment. Also, it is the right of the people to bear arms, the people, the community, the society, not the right of a person, an individual who wants to have a semi automatic weapon just because. The Heller opinion states that gun rights are not unlimited; Breun also provides for gun regulations. Read the controlling SCOTUS opinions, read them. We do not have to live this way. Comprehensive federal gun safety legislation can help us to minimize this carnage and prevent illegal gun traffickers who drive guns across state lines straight into the hands of criminals. Irresponsible governors like Abbott will never fix this. Contact your representatives ASAP regarding comprehensive federal gun safety legislation. 🗽
    3
  3. Btw midterm elections are right around the corner in 2026. Let's celebrate 250 years of DEMOCRACY with 60 Senators and the House majority so we can pass legislation to repair some damage. Stay awesome. 🗽💙🗽
    3
  4. Make sure you vote. 💚💙💚All women must vote, like they voted in Ohio, to add measures to every state constitution, to protect mothers' lives. Remember, this mom has two other children, so if her health is damaged or if she is lost in childbirth with a very high risk pregnancy or because of sepsis, these children will be damaged by the state of Texas forcing them to grow up without their mother. These are dangerous cruel laws. Reproductive healthcare is a matter for mother and doctor. Period.
    3
  5. The majority of the USA population supports comprehensive gun safety legislation. Contact your representatives to ask about their position on gun safety legislation. If they don't have one, vote them out. Enough.
    3
  6. 🗽💙🌊🗽
    3
  7. This committee has no actual power on paper. Congress is free to ignore his suggestions, and they should. Show some courage, do your job.
    3
  8. Sweet memories of the sound of fireworks one Saturday morning in November 2020 as my neighbors exploded with joy and relief as the 2020 was called for President Biden. Yum. Looking to repeat that experience again in November 2024! 💙 Must remember to ask the fireworks guy if he is prepared! 60 Senators, regain House, Speaker Jefferies bringing bills to the floor, President Harris signing the legislation, VP Walz batting clean up. 🗽💙🌊⚖️💙🌊🗽
    3
  9. Please listen to the news before commenting. These charges are against the school supervisor who did not properly respond to reports that the child had a gun. The boy's mom is already in jail. Now, let's all imagine that the Commonwealth of Virginia took gun safety legislation seriously, especially mandated gun safes. Imagine that.
    3
  10. It's time to draft a new amendment to enshrine public safety in the Constitution. That would protect gun safety measures from an over reaching SCOTUS. Ratification is not easy, but it's not impossible. Living with constant gun violence, that's impossible. 🗽
    3
  11. Vote, so we are all still independent next year too. 🗽💙🌊💙🌊🗽
    3
  12. Join an MLK Jr community service event in your neighborhood instead? Doing the right thing usually makes you feel better. Positive action! 🗽
    3
  13.  @mikearmstrong8623  Currently teachers are not armed in the classroom, so data on classroom gun accidents by definition is not available. Is that what we are waiting for? Let's give it a try and see what happens? Only a person who has never been a parent would say that. I have heard that there are a very few districts where a few armed teachers volunteered for this nonsense, but it would be important to know what their role is. For instance, a dean is also a licensed teacher, but their primary role is to patrol hallways, handle late passes, supervise the dean's office. They might teach one class per day, but I feel certain they would lock up the weapon at that time. Very different to be an assistant principal, although they are defined as educators, versus a classroom teacher.
    3
  14. In terms of door security, I sort of agree, but not if doors are used as a distraction from gun control, especially on the AR 15 that has been used in more than 12 of these horrific mass events. NYC schools have school safety officers that are linked to NYPD. I don't think they carry guns, but they do have the power to arrest, and NYPD can provide a robust and immediate response, obviously. Most high schools have metal detectors at the main entrances. All visitors to all schools must have a photo ID and must sign in with the school safety officer at the entrance. I think most NYC public school parents expect that level of safety now, and might actually get upset if the metal detectors were taken out. So I don't understand a school that has no personnel at the door. However, what keeps NYC schools safer is the lack of carry permits. Therefore any person with even a small gun in a jacket would be noticed. An AR 15 walking anywhere near a school is implausible. A twisted individual would have to confine themselves to something small enough to hide, and that alone can prevent mass events. That's why the problem is the gun. By time the AR 15 is walking up to the school, the opportunity for a better narrative has been missed. The doors, the walls, the windows, no the problem is the gun. NYC has been a safer big city for many years, so our gun laws do work. Currently there is an uptick due to ghost guns and the turnpike flooding illegal guns from states with flimsy gun laws. Would be really nice if some states could stop sabotaging the anti crime efforts of urban centers. But street crime and mass shootings are very different things. Street crime usually relies on stealth, so AR 15s don't particularly apply. Not saying that street crime is okay, just that it's different and requires different strategies. To prevent mass shootings, it is about the assault weapons.
    3
  15.  @laura8512  Removing the AR 15 from the equation is the answer. Virtually every mass school shooting has involved the AR 15. The problem is the gun. People who actually teach have explained multiple times why arming teachers will not work. Their unions are steadfastly against this. Why can't you believe the people who actually teach? The problem is not the teachers, the problem is the gun.
    3
  16. Comprehensive federal gun safety legislation needed. Guns are dangerous things and they should be hard to get.
    3
  17. 🗽💙🌊💙🌊🗽
    3
  18. Read carefully. What does community service mean? Reading comprehension matters. Be polite, don't be rude, make your mother proud of how she raised you.. Happy MLK day. BTW midterm elections are right around the corner in 2026. Let's celebrate 250 years of DEMOCRACY with 60 Senators and the House majority! 💙🗽💙
    3
  19. I think this event was by invitation, so Mrs Carter probably requested it? Perhaps a moment of solidarity with a fellow first lady and an understanding that it's not easy to be a first lady when you really cannot make many decisions that truly involve you in policy? I personally felt that Melania was a disgrace to the office of First Lady and never used the platform that she did have for positive purposes. However, Mrs. Carter may have had a different perspective? She probably was also a very merciful and forgiving person due to her deep faith.
    3
  20. Just posted a response listing the resume of VP Harris: district attorney, attorney general, 4 years in the Senate. For some reason, the comment was removed. Why? JD, is that you?
    3
  21. Governing is an actual job, not everyone is good at it. Writing a book doesn't mean you know how to govern. JD has 18 months of time in the Senate. No other government experience. No company would give one of their highest executive positions to someone with 18 months of experience. I don't have time to waste in toxic comments universe. The pumpkin head is not qualified, JD might be qualified in about ten years if he cares enough about service to the nation to stay put. But given his talent for flip flops, my guess is he will be moving on soon. 💙🌊🐬💙🌊
    3
  22. That's exactly what the 14th amendment says. If you broke your oath once, you don't get another chance to break the oath again.
    3
  23. GOP majority House just concluded one of the least productive legislative years ever. President Biden, with a similarly thin House majority, helped to pass and signed lots of legislation needed by the nation: overdue infrastructure, pharmacy cost controls, expanded healthcare for veterans, beginnings of green energy, chips manufactured in the USA, etc. Plus strengthening NATO, supporting unions, and more. President Biden getting things done, I'm for it. See you at the ballot box. 🗽💙🌊💙🌊🗽
    3
  24. Good point about the European perspective. Yes, absolutely correct that abortion was an issue adopted by evangelicals in the 1980s as a pathway to political power. This has never been about caring for mothers. And btw church congregations have been shrinking over the years, so I wonder if these young people who get their photo ops in these pro life rallies...do they even attend church services?? Hmm....
    3
  25. Typically this particular law is used when the gun is used in another crime. So, you lie to get a gun, then use that gun in a robbery. Also, a first offense would not yield jail time. Let's make sure that everyone is held equally accountable. It would be going too far to make his punishment more severe than anyone else who has ever been charged under this law. Just saying.....
    3
  26. If you want to deflect by blaming the military, okay, anyone who wants a military styled weapon like an AR 15 should join the military. I'm sure a recruiter would be glad to speak to you. In addition, please remember that the military demands extensive training before using a weapon. Does Abbott include mandatory training in his gun policy? Nope, just open carry, no permits, over the objections of Texas law enforcement. Then, you would store your weapons with the quartermaster and only have the weapon if you are actively assigned to a mission. Let's implement that gun policy nationwide, but let's start in Texas first. Btw, vote Abbott out, that helps too.
    3
  27.  @bianca-sg8zq  I guess I'm really glad I don't live in South Dakota. So this is our new world, where a woman has rights based on where she lives. Hmm... Time to contact every legislator, state, local, and definitely Congress. Best time for federal legislation to reassert that all USA women deserve to have rights.
    3
  28. 🗽💙🌊🗽
    3
  29. Defamation has always been a thing. There are several limitations on free speech: hate speech, speech that incites violence, fraud, defamation. Think before you speak.
    3
  30. BTW midterm elections are right around the corner in 2026. 💙 Celebrate 250 years of DEMOCRACY with 60 Senators and the House majority. 💙 Stay strong, stay in touch with your representative daily, stay awesome. 🗽
    3
  31. I think they are trying to, but the DA is withholding information that they need to begin their case.
    3
  32. So that we can have more of the least productive House ever. No thanks. Getting things done, I'm for it. 💙 GOP, all about creating drama for C-SPAN. 😎 Vote carefully, everyone. 🗽💙🌊💙🌊🗽
    3
  33. The family is in front; son and daughter are on either side of their dad. Glad to see President Carter in attendance. Determined to do this last favor to his lovely wife, to escort her to her rest. Just lovely. I wish today's churches did a better job of truly teaching faith, rather than politics. This is a day where clearly President Carter's faith gave him the strength to be with his wife, her escort before the world.
    3
  34.  @wowsean  I'm not sure if this is sarcasm? If the teacher is now compelled to focus on keeping a firearm safe while interacting with young children, with hyperactive middle schoolers, with impulsive adolescent high schoolers, that teacher is not focusing on the class. Teaching requires intense focus to accomplish any learning. Perhaps people are thinking of a movie they saw in the 1950s where the teacher sat at a desk and took attendance but nothing else? How much lower are we prepared for our academic performance to go? Our public schools are already a disappointment. The problem is the gun not the teacher. They change the topic daily to distract the voters. 90% of USA population wants gun control, not bright shiny objects. The problem is the gun.
    3
  35.  @wowsean  Absolutely. There is no blazer that would disguise that. And then the inevitable conversation, "Miss, what are you wearing?". And no one learned anything all day because they were talking about guns, stressed out about guns, calming down and deep breathing to help forget about the guns. OMG could elected officials please do their jobs!
    3
  36.  @aaronalegria1239  No, teachers are not going to arm themselves with shovels and axes . Really, get a better hobby. Loving an ugly assault weapon is more than a bit questionable. Enough.
    3
  37. Interesting conversation with UAW president regarding union discomfort with Kelly and Shapiro. On Face the Nation. Don't know if union support is everything, but it does access extra organizations that can get out their voters.
    3
  38. What was missed in your immigration story: the President of Colombia objected to the landing of military aircraft, as opposed to the charter flights that ICE typically used. (Imagine how USA residents would feel to watch military planes from a foreign government landing in our airports. Alarming, right?). Also, he objected to the use of shackles. The "compromise" involved the President of Colombia sending a Colombian plane to the USA to collect their nationals so they can feel confident that their people will be treated humanely. Colombia is one of our atrongest allies in South America. Does this really sound like the best conversation we can have with one of our best allies?
    3
  39. Illegal dumping in a public place is.... illegal. Much less dumping rotting road kill. He cannot be charged because too many years have passed. If he is a decent person, he will make restitution anyway by contributing something to the Central Park Conservancy. What a jerk.
    3
  40. Do more than hope. Do the work. Help one of the many non profits working on this issue. Vote. 🗽💙🌊🗽
    3
  41. There are contracts. You can't just walk away.
    3
  42. Repeal PLCAA (2005) to restore liability to gun manufacturers, and their own lawyers will insist on gun safety protocols at point of sale to demonstrate due diligence in court proceedings. Enough.
    3
  43. BTW midterm elections are right around the corner in 2026. Let's celebrate 250 years of DEMOCRACY with 60 Senators and the House majority! 🗽💙🗽
    3
  44. Although Israel "withdrew" from Gaza in 2005, they moved from occupation to a blockade. Gazans do not have freedom of movement. International organizations have referred to Gaza as an open air prison for a reason. Gaza is not an independent political entity, more like a territory of Israel. Two state solution whether netanyahu wants it or not. It is clear that netanyahu doesn't have the best interests of the Palestinian people at heart. Netanyahu is on his way out anyway, so his opinion is not a determining factor. Btw what is the status of netanyahu's corruption trial? Separate political states with defined borders and sovereign territory is necessary. No more illegal settlements. No more military courts jailing Palestinian minors. 75 years of fighting and vengeance is enough.
    3
  45. President Biden has an impressive legislative record. President Obama had different challenges, but basically put virtually all of his political capital into passing the healthcare bill. He used several executive orders, but was unable to get multiple pieces of major legislation across the finish line.
    3
  46. I would contact your representatives ASAP to express your concerns. That might help, and it certainly can't hurt for your representatives to know that the USA population wants peace. In addition, there are huge rebuilding efforts that will be necessary as soon as the missiles stop flying, or perhaps sooner. So much housing to rebuild, hospitals to rebuild, schools too. New water systems needed, legal support needed to trace property rights so that people can return to their land. There are probably NGOs that are already trying to do some work right now. However, bombing has to stop so that work can get done. Right now, Doctors without Borders and the World Food Program seem like two NGOs that have never stopped working? United Nations organizations, especially UNICEF, are likely also actively involved. I can't remember the exact name of the United Nations food program, but it is likely they are trying to get food supplies through. Any work you do to research the names of reputable organizations that are preparing to help will be positive right now. And it certainly can't hurt to keep your mind on positive action while telling everyone you know, especially public officials, that peace for innocent civilians is a must. 🗽🌎🗽
    3
  47. 25th amendment
    3
  48. I think these folks have been watching the wrong movies. But this not a movie, this is students and our nation. ENOUGH
    3
  49.  @MrSniperdude01  I've already responded once, but it was removed. Why? Just wanted to say that I have no reason to believe that it is true that they can enter her premises without a warrant and without her permission. There are lots of reasons that someone might "wave you off" that do not add up to probable cause. If they were worried that something nefarious was happening to her that she could not discuss at the door, they could have walked around the back to investigate. Watching her cook dinner did not aid their investigation. Luckily a jury will examine this case. I am comfortable waiting for their verdict. This town needs a better police academy and better hiring practices.
    3
  50. If the church has been eager to take care of babies and mothers, why have they been waiting? Aren't they aware about the poverty rates among children? Food insecurity? Homelessness even for working families? Outrageous maternal mortality rates?? Are you sure they want to help? What have they been waiting for?
    3