In this particular tale it’s not stated whether the firearm was or was not loaded; the safer guess is always to assume it’s loaded unless it’s proven not to be. I completely forgot about that aspect; there is no good reason for anyone to open carry a loaded weapon, other than that a state’s laws allow them to do so.

I remember the first time I saw someone with a gun in a grocery store. It was an in Safeway in Arizona, and it was incredibly jarring. Years later I cannot think of a reason you would need a gun while browsing a store where the meat has already been killed for you.

The good news is that no one ever called David Brooks a bedbug on Twitter.

Boren declined to say how much each influencer was paid for making the sponsored videos.

Oh okay that was the point of your comment. Sorry I couldn’t understand the point earlier. Got it. Carry on.

As Wikipedia there will tell ya, a coup happened in 1978. That was the reason why I chose 1978 as a turning point.

Thanks for correcting my poor wording there.

A few hours later I am very glad that one of the four errors I noticed in the article was fixed. I am glad that “look confuse” was changed to “look confused.” That is a good improvement.

These are all fair points. The country’s very much in bad shape and it’s going to take decades more of effort to get it back to where it was 40+ years ago.

The many peoples of Afghanistan deserve a giant pile of no-questions-asked money from both Russia and the US-led coalition for the damage we have done to that country over the past 41 years. I understand that both countries are trying to help with rebuilding the country but as a US citizen it often feels like our…

debate is three hours long from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST.

This is good Kinja.

In the case of Sasha Obama she could probably get a degree at University of Phoenix and still get into whatever career she really wants to.

I mean I get that Ms. Krueger has a fondness for University of Wisconsin but if the writers of Splinter can’t put aside their feelings to be objective then what hope do any of us have.

I’m just glad that your first comment on this username is on this thread <3

But in all honesty University of Michigan has a lower acceptance rate, it has a higher number of students who get a degree in 4 years, those graduates have a lower amount of average indebtedness, it has a better student:faculty ratio... In…

Oh for sure University of Michigan degree havers do tend to have a particular air about them. That might just be an attitude picked up in Ann Arbor.

I don’t know what major she intends on completing but University of Michigan is generally a better school than University of Wisconsin.

The greatest factor in the loss of a left-leaning candidate in the 2016 POTUS election was that left-leaning voters did not get counted as often as would be expected. This was through a combination of factors that voters cannot control (e.g. voter intimidation and other election trickery) and factors that they can…

I assume the next logical step in this process is for the NYT to invite David Karpf to freelance for them.