“It’s a rite of passage into political adulthood, when the contours of the world seem sharper than they may ever be again, and the notion of the correspondence between the politician one votes for and the one who arrives in office is still intact—that moment of “very heaven,” as Wordsworth’s famous line about…

PP is a cornerstone of the Democratic Party’s establishment. I read the quote as taking on a DNC, liberal press *cough*, and major progressive activist groups that are so comically in the tank for Clinton an endorsement isn't necessary.

Northeastern is in a densely urbanized part of Boston. I don’t see any functional advantage of a rifle over the already existing handguns, even in a mass shooting situation. Any hostage taking would be handled by BPD, and not campus police.