Left-leaning gun owner (yes, we exist) here. I'm not an NRA member or supporter, and I wouldn't give their current incarnation a dime, but in their defense, for most of their existence, the NRA stood for responsible gun ownership and sensible laws to keep them out of the hands of the wrong people.

I'm sorry this tragedy hit close to home for you, IK.

I'm more and more convinced that what the US needs more than anything else (including whatever your definition of sensible gun laws and sensible foreign policy may be) is a serious, well-funded War on Mental Illness*. I maintain that if the Omar Mateens and Adam Lanzas could be found and helped earlier, these…

Because it's in the Bill of Rights.

Sometimes I'll see an ad for a new sitcom where every clip they show is staggeringly unfunny, and my only thought is, "if these are the parts they considered highlights, how bad must the rest of the show be?"

Automatic weapons (where you hold the trigger and it keeps firing until it's empty) are military-grade, and they're not generally available to the public anyway. They account for almost no US gun deaths.

There's really no precedent for repealing an Amendment that's that central to the Constitution; the ONLY Amendment that has ever been repealed was the Eighteenth, which outlawed alcohol (!!!).

(Shield spoilers below)

You want to finish it, believe me. They totally stuck the landing.

Don't worry, I'm sure we'll get that sooner or later…

I have no idea, but it would have been nice.

I remember a big SW fan in 1998 telling me that he wasn't sure that Episode I would be very good before adding, "It's Episode II that I can't wait for; it's going to be Darth Vader and an army of supersoldiers dressed like Boba Fett hunting down and killing every Jedi in the galaxy not named Yoda or Obi-Wan."

I think at this point, I'd honestly rather see an "Adaptation"-like movie about James Franco trying and failing to adapt Blood Meridian for the big screen than an actual Blood Meridian movie.

It's too awful to contemplate, but the day is coming when the reevaluation of Nickelback will begin and many people (mostly dorks) will claim to have liked them all along.

Jon kills Ramsay in a sword fight, and then Melisandre brings him back to life over and over until everyone else has had a chance to kill him too.

"It's a big house. It's funny that I only ever see two of you. It's almost like the studio couldn't afford another Faceless Man."

She took literally the worst thing that could have happened to her and used it to help other people. RIP and God bless her.

Lots of begetting, though, so there's that.

Dunno, but I'm starting to think it's just turtles all the way down.

So it just says "oexist". What the hell?