Everyone should be limited to muzzle loading muskets. Founder’s Intent.

I could point out the vast differences in effectiveness between handguns and assault weapons, but fuck it. You’re right. Ban handguns too.

We at least regulate or ban certain drugs

Let’s start by reinstituting controls on ammunition that we gave up with the Firearms Owners Protection Act, and also make gun manufacturers somewhat liable instead of the total protection (beyond anyone in any industry) they enjoy now.

Meanwhile in Germany, there were two mass shootings within the last five years, compared to about two thousand in the US in the same time frame.

The NRA stopped representing gun owners and started representing gun makers a long time ago.

The NRA and the gun companies are winning, actually. They got people convinced Obama was gonna ban firearms - which he never really considered, ever.

Now they’re trying to convince you that you need their weapons to protect you from the weapons they produced. Basically, they’re playing the arms dealer middleman,…

So here’s a thought, we live in a society that lets people own bears right? And ANYONE can get a bear easily and cheaply. I understand that some people can safely own bears, but keeping bears around kids and people who don’t know how to care for bears is a bad idea. However people keep saying that our violent bear…

Reset the clock.

Whoever is responsible or whatever hot take you want to use, there’s always one common denominator to mass shootings; guns. It’s obvious but still needs to be pointed out.

This is always the question, and the answer is always ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Truthfully, no lives matter. We did nothing after Sandyhook. Kinda shows that we don’t care who dies, even little kids. Once you’re okay with that, the discussion ends.

Precisely. And when all of these things that women are choosing —from ditching their names to getting breast implants to shaving off their body hair— line up exactly with what men want, we’ve at least got to question how free these choices are.

Even the bit about him saying ‘you don’t belong here’ - to me that just ramps up the psychological pressure on the woman who is having an awful experience and hating it. I’ve always found him to have an edge of sadism that isn’t really necessary for what he’s doing.

It reminds me of an article I read about harassment to women in the world of comic book publishing and how women used to alert each other about which men in the industry should be avoided, because if they reported them, they (the women) would be ignored at best and would lose their job in the worst case. You can’t…

Absolutely. The GF also then followed it up with a line about how “I like [thing X] but I know I’m being indoctrinated to like it and that’s fine, I want to get off. But also I want to live in a world where I was never told that was something that was hot.”

Right on. This “I choose my choice” brand of feminism is perfectly unhelpful. Nobody is saying you’re not allowed to like what you like, but when they suggest that maybe you like something that you wouldn’t like had it not been for the toxic culture you’ve soaked up since birth, they’re not passing judgement on you as…

And she had a great line of “I don’t judge individuals but let’s say I am suspicious of how many dudes have fantasies that align perfectly with existing patriarchal norms.”

Well, his public image prior to this was as the guy who was not a threat or disgustingly porn-y.

That article was really well done. I appreciated the honesty and perspective the writer brought to it.