Yeah, they need something more sweeping than this. For one thing, they need to limit the size of clips. Any shooter that has to reload every 5 or 10 bullets is going to be much less effective. But on the fire rate, having a gun where you have to manually do something to get it to chamber another bullet would be idea.

First of all, if it had just lowered the number of crimes with assault weapons, that would still prove it worked. That would be an example of gun control having a positive effect on the specific type of gun crime it was targeting. So you’d still be wrong.

A couple of problems. One is that the assault rifle ban is an example of a policy that worked. Assault rifles were used in fewer shootings. The number of shootings using assault rifles dropped more than 60%. Second, if you look at gun violence by year, it went down during the 90s. The ban was passed in 94, and that…

The thing they don’t want to admit is that gun control laws do have an effect. They conflate the statement “you are never going to stop everyone,” which is true, with “you are never going to stop anyone,” which is false. No law banning things will every be 100% effective, but it does have an effect, and in this case…

They want to be seen as promoting unity when these things happen. It’s sad though, because I would love to have someone presidential in the Oval at times like this, but we don’t. Even Pence, who is terrible, could do this part of the job very well. We need a comforting presence to calm us at times like this, and we do…

Here’s something that always bothers me in these situations: The Republicans will say it’s not respectful to talk about guns at a time like this. We are supposed to wait some unknown amount of time before we talk about it. It’s the same with extreme weather and climate change. It’s not respectful, we are told. People…

This would be a reasonable explanation except for the fact that she has to know that her audience hates the media and many of them are anti-semites. I find it hard to believe that she would be completely unaware of those two things. I don’t buy that she didn’t make the connection.

“It is clear to me that in this case, I was not sensitive enough to my concern for the taxpayer,” Price said.

I was mad about Conan getting screwed, so I made the choice to not watch NBC’s late night lineup anymore, and I still haven’t gone back. I see clips on the internet, but I haven’t sat down to watch Fallon ever. I don’t hold it against him, but I couldn’t support what the network did.

Well, she did bring in the viewers at Fox. She has something they like. The problem is this is a completely different format with a completely different audience. That was mostly old white people. The audience for this is mostly in their middle years, many of whom are not white. Thinking her skills would transfer was…

It seems like whenever they make a big move, it’s bad. I keep thinking about Jay Leno’s stupid variety hour. I actually like Jay Leno fine, but that show was terrible, it was a bad idea to begin with, and paying him that much money to do it was idiotic. And then it fucked everything up because they paid him so much…

I did vote for her. It was her or a mad man, so it wasn’t much of a choice. But the server, and her reaction to it, did make me nervous about her becoming president. Early on, when she had changed her story for the second or third time, it was clear that she was willing to lie to cover it up. Then it went farther and…

Jesus wasn’t white. Santa is fictional and can be any damn color we want. Just sayin’.

 Here is our national discussion about other countries’ healthcare systems:

Except not really. There are two things here: whether it was a criminal act worthy of charges, and whether or not it was enough of a political scandal to end her career.

This is too lopsided for that. You’d have to stop like 80% of current voters from voting to get away with this.

I can’t, for the life of me, figure out the thought process on any of these healthcare bills. They keep building bills that are terrible policy and politics, and then they do things during the process to make them even worse. Why? You failed, and that will have a political cost, but failing again will be worse, and…

There’s a lot to unpack there. For one thing, I didn’t particularly like Hillary, and I did think the fact that she set up that server and had classified information on it was kind of a big deal. Just not the kind of top level scandal the Republicans made it into. It was along the lines of these travel scandals we’re…

This is why you don’t make scandals out of bullshit, you idiots! One after another, Republicans are getting caught doing this thing which wouldn’t have been a big deal if they hadn’t tried to make Hillary’s server into the crime of the century.

I’m okay with a portion of the party signing onto a far left proposal that isn’t realistic today. At least it’s an actual proposal. The Republicans just attacked the thing we had for years. They never proposed anything to replace it, which is why they got so screwed.