The Minnesota Mass Shooting.

 

There has been another mass shooting in Minneapolis. It happened at a Catholic school when 17 people were shot and 2 children murdered by a coward. The murderer died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. There is no justification for murder and shooting innocent people period. Anyone who does such actions are evil and ought to face the ultimate punishment. Also, there is the elephant in the room. I really don't care if MAGA people like it or not, but the truth must be told in season and out of season. The elephant in the room is that we have a public health emergency involving gun mass shootings, and the lie is that nothing can be done. If human beings can create the Internet or send people to the Moon, then we can enact real solutions to fight against mass gun violence in our society. The lie of nothing can be done should outrage us all as something can be done. People shouldn't give me the jazz about gun not killing people. Gun have killed people for centuries. We shouldn't ban all guns, but we should have regulations on them. The same hypocrites who lecture us on regulations on social conduct want no regulations on weapons. That is pure hypocrisy and people who subscribe to that nonsense know it. Most Americans want federal gun background checks, a ban on assault weapons, and other policies like investments in our communities. The murderer had all of the characteristics of a racist monster. This person had a manifesto and had videos of this individual hating black people, hating Latino people, hating Jewish people (being anti-Semitic), and hating Christians. So, this racist, xenophobic person hates the diversity of America and desired to glorify violence and murder being completely evil. There is evil in the world, and good is always superior to evil. Moms Demand Action and other groups are doing yeoman's work in fighting for real solutions relating to common sense measure, not total gun bans. We desire human lives to be saved in this world.

There is a lot of corporate financial interests behind the Trump's executive orders to deploy the National Guard in U.S. cities. For centuries, the oligarchy seeks not only to harm the rights of the working class and the poor. They want to control people in centralized institutions too. The Trump administration is showing retribution against his political opponents, sending National Guard troops to American cities (even without the approval of Governors in those states), and expanded the executive branch in an authoritarian fashion (when there should be three co-equal branches of government with equal political powers with checks and balances). This reality is unprecedented in American history since the days before the American Civil War. Trump allowing a military force to carry arms in American cities is totally historic and reactionary. Trump is acting in submission to the financial oligarchy as his narcissism represents his hatred of democratic freedoms. I'm not a fiscal conservative, but America's national debt is $37 trillion, and the extension of his tax cuts for the super-rich is running almost $2 trillion per year. Trump is doing these actions to make sure that he won't be held accountable for his overtly unjust, illegal policies. We have massive austerity with cuts to Medicaid and other social programs. Trump wants bans on mail in voting and controls over our 2026 election. Trump is motivated by demonic revenge and an embrace of fascism.

We have warned people that Trump will do this. It is the height of sacrilege and hypocrisy for MAGA hypocrites to claim Trump is godly but ignore how Trump does inhuman actions like restricting due process rights, going about to seek Muslim bans, and desiring to do what he wants (that he has said publicly). The MAGA hypocrites claim to follow God, but deny God giving people the power to address gun violence in making solutions to the epidemic of mass shooting. We can make solutions, but many extremists care more for a gun than human life. Either a human life has more value than a gun or vice versa. I believe that a human life has much more intrinsic value than a gun. If dead babies from gun violence don't motivate you to endorse reasonable gun solutions, then those people, who support the status quo, are sadists. There is no other way to put it. A perverted President Trump who made perverted comments about his own daughter, says that he doesn't ask God forgiveness, and jokes about being a dictator has no credibility in claiming morality or sane leadership period. MAGA hypocrites claim to be in favor of small government, but they are silent when Trump expanded the executive branch of government in an authoritarian fashion. It is the cruelty against the homeless, against immigrants, against qualified black women, against black people in general, against other oppressed people that Trump supports via his policies and his words (when he constantly calls black women with whom he disagrees with "low IQ" in a racist, sexist fashion). I do believe that some MAGA cultists view Trump as infallible. I don't, and I make my points clear on that. We must always do the right thing, fight for justice, protect our God-given rights, and endorse victory for democracy.

There is a walkout protest after CDC officials were unjustly fired by Robert Kennedy Jr. Many CDC workers resigned. The CDC is ousted as Robert Kennedy Jr. has extremist views who not only made racist remarks about COVID-19 but is skeptical of tons of vaccines. Robert Kennedy Jr. also wants to rubber stamp his views and CDC Director refused to do anything illegal and unscientific. Robert Kennedy Jr. is a sellout who was once an environmental lawyer, but he supports the most anti-environmental President in American history who is Donald Trump.

I found a new cousin from Ancestry.com DNA list. Her name is Sandra Elliot, who is my 3rd cousin. We are descendants of Morefield Hurst-Turner (1827-1918) and Milly Woodson Bozeman (1830-1910), who are my 4th great-grandparents. Morefield was an African American freeman and Milly Woodson Bozeman was a descendant of the Nottoway Native American people. They lived in Southampton County, Virginia. They had many children and one of them was Cordelia (Candy) Turner (1856-1934). Cordelia Turner married John Henry Wiggins (b. 1853) on December 14, 1876, at Southampton County, Virginia. One of their children was Lula Wiggins (1899-1971). My 1st cousin Lula Wiggins married Ernest Hines on November 22, 1919, at Suffolk, Virginia. By this time, many of the descendants of Morefield and Milly Turner traveled into Suffolk, Norfolk, Baltimore, Portsmouth, and beyond. The children of Lula Wiggins and Ernest Hines were Annie Betty Hines (1920-2022), Charlie Ernest Hines Sr. (1921-1998), and Leroy Hines (1924-1991). Charlie Erenst Hines Sr. married Fannie Sirlinster Hines (1923-1998) on December 9, 1946, at Nansemond, Virginia. Nansemond is a term meaning Suffolk now. The couple had many children who are Sheila Diane Hines (b. 1949), Charlie Hines Jr. (1950-2010), Sandra Laverne Hines (b. 1951), Cynthia Yvonne Hines (b. 1953), Paula Wisteria Hines (b. 1957), Phyllis Denise Hines (b. 1962), Barbara Annette Hines, and Gwendolyn Hines. The daughter of Sandra Hines is Lauren Elliot.

By Timothy