StrangeSox

Nah that's a pretty dumb argument. to lay it out more explicitly: not everything is an endless slippery slope, of course. "If you ban X, then you'll ban Y and Z and everything else!" doesn't actually logically follow. We don't see the dozens of countries with tighter gun laws calling for mass knife bans or car bans or whatever other deflection people obsessed with guns toss out in response to the latest mass shooting. What we do see are far fewer deaths because, completely unsurprisingly, it's a lot harder to kill someone with a knife and it's much, much harder to kill scores of people at once with one.

Toomey-Manchin was the weakest token effort you could imagine after Sandy Hook. All it did was expand background checks. It was filibustered in the Senate by Republicans. How do you "compromise" with that? After the last major mass school shooting, House Republicans were trying to tie concealed carry reciprocity (meaning the state with the weakest CCW laws get to dictate who can carry nationally, essentially) passed. Where is the middle ground between "more guns, everywhere, all the time" and "literally anything to control guns"? What's the big money, big political force anti-gun lobby comparable to the NRA?

It also does nothing for mass shootings that happen at college campuses, concerts, night clubs, movie theaters, shopping malls, train stations, or any other number of public spaces with large amounts of people gathered.

The opposite approach would be national gun control as a significant portion of guns used in Chicago come from not just outside the city limits but from neighboring states!

How many mass stabbings are there? How many people die from stabbing attacks each year?

It actually just came out that shortly before shooting hundreds of people, he was ranting about the government taking away his previous guns. This post-Sandy Hook article still resonates today Read again those lines, with recent images seared into our brains—“besmeared with blood” and “parents’ tears.” They give the real meaning of what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday morning. That horror cannot be blamed just on one unhinged person. It was the sacrifice we as a culture made, and continually make, to our demonic god. We guarantee that crazed man after crazed man will have a flood of killing power readily supplied him. We have to make that offering, out of devotion to our Moloch, our god. The gun is our Moloch. We sacrifice children to him daily—sometimes, as at Sandy Hook, by directly throwing them into the fire-hose of bullets from our protected private killing machines, sometimes by blighting our children’s lives by the death of a parent, a schoolmate, a teacher, a protector. Sometimes this is done by mass killings (eight this year), sometimes by private offerings to the god (thousands this year). The gun is not a mere tool, a bit of technology, a political issue, a point of debate. It is an object of reverence. Devotion to it precludes interruption with the sacrifices it entails. Like most gods, it does what it will, and cannot be questioned. Its acolytes think it is capable only of good things. It guarantees life and safety and freedom. It even guarantees law. Law grows from it. Then how can law question it? Its power to do good is matched by its incapacity to do anything wrong. It cannot kill. Thwarting the god is what kills. If it seems to kill, that is only because the god’s bottomless appetite for death has not been adequately fed. The answer to problems caused by guns is more guns, millions of guns, guns everywhere, carried openly, carried secretly, in bars, in churches, in offices, in government buildings. Only the lack of guns can be a curse, not their beneficent omnipresence. Adoration of Moloch permeates the country, imposing a hushed silence as he works his will. One cannot question his rites, even as the blood is gushing through the idol’s teeth. The White House spokesman invokes the silence of traditional in religious ceremony. “It is not the time” to question Moloch. No time is right for showing disrespect for Moloch. The fact that the gun is a reverenced god can be seen in its manifold and apparently resistless powers. How do we worship it? Let us count the ways: Though LaPierre is the pope of this religion, its most successful Peter the Hermit, preaching the crusade for Moloch, was Charlton Heston, a symbol of the Americanism of loving guns. I have often thought that we should raise a statue of Heston at each of the many sites of multiple murders around our land. We would soon have armies of statues, whole droves of Heston acolytes standing sentry at the shrines of Moloch dotting the landscape. Molochism is the one religion that can never be separated from the state. The state itself bows down to Moloch, and protects the sacrifices made to him. So let us celebrate the falling bodies and rising statues as a demonstration of our fealty, our bondage, to the great god Gun.

Not just that, but the people obsesses with guns will turn out to vote en masse on that specific issue in every election at every level while the majority of people in favor of additional gun control don't vote quite as reliably and don't vote on that single issue nearly as strongly.

turn our schools into prison camps to protect our guns!

Nah, also mass shootings happen in more places than just schools. That's a great way of trying to shift the blame back onto the victims though. Check out the real story behind Columbine. Far from being some social outcasts bullied by their victims, Eric Harris was himself a bully.

They tried to pass the Toomey-Manchin bill but it was defeated by a Republican filibuster. This was like the absolutely bare minimum thing they could have done in response to Sandy Hook, and the NRA stopped it. Trump was right when he called out all those Congressional Republicans as being cowards too afraid to stand up to the NRA. Too bad he also completely caved to them.

What about our elected officials has shown that they're any more knowledgeable than the average person? Check out the Mo Brooks quotes a couple posts above.

I think that's the opposite of the tone she's taking this time? She appears to be blaming the media for falling for the weak excuse, not for the initial reporting. Click through to the link she's responding to, to me her tone is one of agreement with it.

It also looks like Trump is going to follow Nunes' lead and out confidential informants in yet more efforts to protect himself. The DOJ and FBI have both warned that releasing this information to Nunes, who everyone knows would immediately leak it to the public, will put ongoing investigations and potentially informants' lives in jeopardy.

yeah it's a little surprising seeing that direct of a "no, this is Trump's usual bullshit, don't fall for it" statement coming from her, normally she'd be rushing to lightly defend their garbage excuses

Leahy should have dumped the blue slip nonsense the second Reid removed the filibuster for judicial nominees because McConnell was blocking any and every appointment. We're going to get decades of far-right courts because of their negligence.

They know enough to know they like what they have now and telecoms are already planning on fucking is hard, good enough to support the policy broadly

That guy got doxxed hard and fast and is now being harassed by the media for being a garbage person

I've had my own modem for years. It pays for itself in less than a year. Of course I did just have to replace mine this weekend because lightning took it out, but I'm still several hundred ahead over the long term.

What was the point of bringing up that one specific procedure in response to Rock's comment?

Medical bankruptcies have decreased under ACA. You don't even know what you're trying to argue any more.

Uh in response to rock saying lots travel from the US, you brought up one specific procedure and then said they don't travel anymore. What was the point of bringing up that procedure of you weren't trying to dispute the notion that people leave this country for medical care?

People travel for a lot more than just that procedure. I don't know why that's hard to understand.

Okay? That's still a broken system!