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Ongoing gun violence/injury thread

The GOP dog is catching the car, and you’d think folks like jh would be proud to talk about it since it’s all they’ve ever wanted. But nope, too gutless.
 
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man that one really hits home. our son is obsessed with vehicles so we read a lot of Richard Scarry books.
 
my wife picked up a copy of What Do People Do All Day and it's pretty amazing. my 6yo was fascinated
 
The dog cop and the pig politician fit pretty well with Pink Floyd's Animals album
 
Daniel Defense, the company from which the Uvalde shooter purchased his guns, posted a since-deleted tweet containing an image of a child holding a dismantled rifle over which Proverbs 22:6 has been inscribed: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
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BarcaDeac said:
no birds on the album, unfortch. just Pigs on the Wing.
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There is a disappointing lack of birds in Floyd's lyrics....but their songs are so critical of society that birds simple don't fit as metaphors because they are all beauty and light.
 
Seems to me we need to revisit at what age children become adults.
 
birdman said:
There is a disappointing lack of birds in Floyd's lyrics....but their songs are so critical of society that birds simple don't fit as metaphors because they are all beauty and light.
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Echoes is very birdy

Overhead the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
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Plus the whole rooks section in the song
 
Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here are all about madness, but no references to loons. what does the expression crazy as a loon (and loony?) come from?
 
BarcaDeac said:
Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here are all about madness, but no references to loons. what does the expression crazy as a loon (and loony?) come from?
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I think it references the way drunk people stumbling around resemble loons trying to walk on land. Think of how a republican looking to justification to not control guns and instead limit the number of entrances to public spaces looks like:

 
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