Clearly the deputy was not ‘adept’ with guns. He should have passed off his pistol to the 2nd period social studies teacher.

Here’s one more: The sheriff’s deputy on duty at Parkland apparently lost his nerve during the shooting and never tried to engage the shooter.

I just need to vent about this idiotic idea of arming teachers as a solution. While I have tremendous sympathy to those victims and their families who might see this as at least giving them a fighting chance to survive, it’s wrongheaded in so many ways. A military style assault weapon, like the AR-15 is a designed to…

I’m a teacher and I’d be terrified to be armed while at school. God forbid something were to happen where I would be expected to use a gun, and I use it on the wrong person, or it gets into a student’s hands. This is insane. If I wanted to carry a gun, I would’ve become a cop.

It absolutely blows my mind that Republicans can balance the cognitive dissonance of “look, an angry teenager is always just going to be able to somehow source a semi-automatic rifle, even if they’re illegal and rare and strictly controlled and almost impossible to get ammunition for, never mind that literally no…

I’m a volunteer first responder, and I think I may speak for the majority of us, but we don’t need anyone thanking us. We do what we do because we are passionate about helping people. We don’t do it for the notariety.

We need to start protesting the NRA and gun shops the way pro-life dickbags protest abortion clinics. Pictures of victims, bloodied shot up bodies. Calling them murderers and child killers. Because that’s what they are. Tell them they’re going to hell, unless of course they repent, which they can conveniently do at a…

Mnuchin called this a “tragedy.” Sorry, Secretary, but no. A tornado is a “tragedy.” Faulty wiring that leads to a building catching on fire is a “tragedy.”

Journalists do important work. But anyone hounding a child (because teenagers are still children) after such a traumatic experience for comment or an interview or image permissions is a piece of shit. Anyone doing this while the event is actively continuing needs to take a real look at their life and wonder how they…

Well, if we thank them hard enough, we won’t have to pay them.

I’ve noticed it’s now mandatory to thank first responders. They did their job, if I’m not mistaken. Was their some act of heroism that I’m not aware of. Also, wasn’t there a cop in the school when the shooting occured?

“who often talked about guns and killing animals”

Woohoo! This is excellent. All those TRAP laws have been chip chip chipping away at women’s rights for decades now, and even when we have been able to fight them back, we haven’t been able to get much of a foothold forward. We’ve gotten used to playing a defensive game. I’m really happy to see PP going on the attack.

I do wish the face looked more like Michelle. I mean, it’s a cool painting, I love the contrast of the grey and the blue, and I think the inclusion of the flying geese pattern on her dress is playful and fun (as a quilter I am a big fan of that pattern), but the face is just... off. Michelle Obama is a genuinely…

Gimme a break. You can’t even find five Republicans to criticize Trump on-camera. He’s not getting primaried.

Words vs actions.

I hope Neil Gorsuch can’t sleep. I hope he tosses and turns all through the night, gets up and wanders around his house every few hours, and stares out of his living room window.

Talk about “impostor syndrome.” He’s probably the highest serving, most important, but least deserving man in American politics since . . .…

We’re one SCOTUS seat away from this sort of retrograde bullshit right here in the good old USofA. Land of the Free (if you’re a cis white male) and home of the brave (if you’ve got a gun)

And I’m sure his then-wife filed a police report and restraining order in 2010 as a political move to discredit Trump because she has a crystal ball and knew Trump would be president.

The photo is being “misrepresented?” Yeah, I’m sure she just fell into a doorknob to get that black eye...