Appreciated for sure. I’d buy yours in turn.

I have a slew of artist buddies that make a pretty solid living almost exclusively through commissions and convention promotion via twitter, so there is some use in it.

I know. Ultimately I harbor no anger for the victim who is simply trying to leverage the civil power he has vs. a large corporation in order to turn a terrible thing into at least something good. In its own way, it’s great that EA will be able to likely pay them a fairly large settlement while suffering virtually no…

If you gotta ask what Rick Scott could do, you haven’t paying too much attention to Florida. There’s a lot of shit Rick Scott could do that he doesn’t.

Internet discourse, everyone!

A good point, I had not honestly considered that.

Maybe it makes me a pessimist in a way, but I would never feel safe from a mass shooter simply because there’s metal detectors or security checkpoints. Mind you, I don’t go around living in fear or avoiding public spaces, but my sense of safety would not be heightened by said security’s presence, is what I’m saying.

So when he just shoots a bunch of people outside, or several security officers die instead of several patrons, and then he kills himself... what is different?

‘I think you’re wrong and I can’t wait for you to get shot to prove you wrong.’

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not...

I’m glad to hear that, but speaking in a very practical sense, what are we expecting these ‘other things in the interim’ to even do? Like I said, over and over again we’ve seen that the answer is still nothing. We shouldn’t lie to ourselves and our kids and our peers that armed security and metal detectors will make…

Gun control. Ammunition control.

Alas, it isn’t. I know you were makin’ a sarcastic joke there, but fact is that prisons are incredibly unsafe for ironically similar reasons that gun proliferation is so widespread - private industry lobbyists.

Eh, I see where you’re going, but the gaming ‘community’ is basically more than half the planet at this point. It’s not like it’s some insiders club or niche market anymore.

And what would those have done? Don’t answer that, because you already know: nothing.

And when those measures fail, as they inevitably always do whenever someone wants to commit a mass shooting? What will you blame then?

Great, useless security. And who is paying for all that useless security and where are they purchasing their guns from?

‘I’m living in a reality’ is a funny way of saying ‘I’ve decided that gun control is impossible and we need to treat all public events like vectors for mass murderers and enrich an objectively evil industry fueled and nourished by a flourishing armed guard market.’

“Perhaps he should have been nicer, and more respectful, to his President!”

Concert venues, you say? Probably not the best example, genius.