A very interesting history of how the Second Amendment used to be interpreted and then was bastardized poorly to accommodate the NRA. It’s interesting, because it really opens the door to a more liberal supreme court ruling completely differently on the issue:

I’m a member of parent groups in a very liberal area, and more than once it has come up that basically parents want to turn schools - particularly elementary schools - into virtual prisons. Nevermind that some of them are already like this, but these parents are “shocked” that there are no fences, metal detectors, or…

Here’s the thing about ready access to guns being a viable solution to an emergency situation: they aren’t.

I think there’s another way to look at a possible relationship between white supremacy and mass shooters. It’s less about ideology and more about being “heard.” A white man might seek out white supremacist associations out of a fear and anger that the old systems which privileged them are dying. They’re angry of a…

And it will get teachers killed. When the SWAT Team shows up and there’s now not only one shooter but several all firing in different directions and no one can tell the “bad guy with a gun” from the “good guy wth a gun”. It’s insanely stupid.

Can you imagine an Aussie kid trying to conduct a mass shooting in an Aussie school today?

“This is my grandpa’s .22 and I’m going to make you all pay!” [Struggles with bolt, tries to load round, gets spear-tackled into a spinal injury by a Tongan kid.]

My fourth grade teacher openly bullied and berated his students and took great pleasure in strategically picking targets — children whose parents were constantly distracted at home or children whose parents sided with him all the time. He pushed me into a wall, trying to get my attention, and the back of my skull…

I feel like saying back “your right to compensate for having a small penis does not trump the right of our children to live free from gun violence”.

Conspicuously missing from this group: any of the kids who banded together to push gun reform.

remember when we had a president who didn’t need to be training-wheeled towards empathy?

Guess who was responsible for closing mental hospitals and de-institutionalizing the mentally ill? Reagan! The conservative President worshipped by conservatives today.

Trump today on arming teachers:

Milo is offensive. Ann Coulter is offensive. It’s fine to dismiss ideas that exist only to offend. Milo certainly falls into that category and Coulter often does as well. They are not interested in an intellectually honest exchange of ideas. That is at the very core of their cultural toxicity.

My desire to engage in…

Ok so instead of engage, dismiss? Seems like that’s just running from a different opinion instead of understanding it. Fact is, that protest gave this asshole the oxygen he craves ... it had was the opposite of effective. My son goes to Cal and was a firsthand witness to the shitshow. All it did was make us on the…

Did ... you dismiss my comment or is kinja being kinja?

And even if they did, so fucking what? Someone suggesting you should behave an abominably cruel manner doesn’t give you an excuse to do it.

What’s insane is that she must have called the paper with the story. How did she not realize that this made her look like a monster?

As a guy I have 4 thoughts

I’ve posted this before, but...