“Part of the reason why you’d want federal-level rules is because driving in Chandler, Arizona, is wildly different from driving in the middle of Baltimore, Maryland.”

Fight homelessness by disincentivising employment. Oh yea, that will definitely work.

“And yet, there are lots of tall commenters in the thread who feel like it’s their right to block everyone behind them.”

I’ll usually let someone who is especially short, like well below average height, go in front of me if they will actually be able to see from in front of me, and especially if they ask rather than trying to push me out of the way, but otherwise I completely agree. I stand as close as I can and if a group leaves I will…

Are the photos fantastic, though? Because, I mean...they’re not...buuuut...

Unfortunately, you’re just plain factually wrong. About me voting for Trump first of all, but much more importantly about your entire premise.

No, actually I was pointing out the hypocrisy of your judgement, not trying to make the same mistake myself. It’s weird, and by weird I mean fallacious, that you’re trying to assert that you’re right by accusing me of making a mistake you just made. There are certainly way better ways to try and refute what I just…

To be blunt, I don’t really care how you would like to imagine I voted in order to make yourself feel more secure in the partisan bullshit you are trying to substitute for an argument. I certainly didn’t vote for Trump (or McCain, by the way, or Romney), or Clinton. I was actually hoping the left would get Sanders…

Actually you are incorrect. If you’re going to discuss the topic you ought to have at least a basic familiarity with the issues around discretionary licensing in MA, D.C., IL, CA...these are not exactly minor concerns. It has been to the supreme court (D.C. vs. Heller) and numerous other lower courts.

There is no such thing as, “common sense gun laws”. It’s a term people who don’t know anything about guns use to cover for their ignorance. Yes, a large portion of the population of gun owners in the U.S. would be OK with certain additional legislation/requirements, but that doesn’t mean they agree, at all, on what…

Another person assuming I vote for or support the GOP just because I believe in our second amendment rights. It’s much easier to argue when you can throw everyone into neat little partisan buckets, right?

There are really two NRAs, there’s the half that offers gun safety training programs, range insurance, etc. and then there’s the lobbying organization. The first half is funded largely by members, the other half is not. It’s still extremely unfortunate that you get sucked in to being a member of the NRA just to be…

It’s funny that you assume I vote Republican...because I definitely don’t. As far as the Democrats being in favor of civil rights is concerned, I’ll believe it when I see it. They have been just as complicit in rolling them back as the Republicans have going back a very long way. Also, if you think the Democrats…

So your position is that a government that would use its military against its own citizens doesn’t deserve to be violently opposed. Got it.

I live in Massachusetts, and the desire to infantilize and nerf the population is real (look into stun guns and mace in MA). There is the same streak in other liberal states. I disagree less at the federal level, but its unfortunate that we live in this climate where dumb political rhetoric outshines the actual wishes…

Agree with every single thing you say.

I don’t disagree with anything you say here. The NRA has reacted in the worst possible ways to recent events. The right works against their own stated ideals (small government, freedom, etc.) at every possible opportunity, much like the left.

You could not possibly be more wrong that, “the left was against all this stuff”. I don’t even know where to start. With Clinton eroding 4th amendment protections for digital communications in the 90s? With the nearly unanimous support for the patriot act and airport security theater? With Obama’s personal signoff on…

To answer your question, the government of Massachusetts has a problem with those things. I totally admit my experience is skewed by where I live, but these are also things that are really happening in America.

Why do you think I am part of the group that voted for that? Because I believe in the second amendment? I have been actively opposing these things since I was old enough to be politically aware. As Americans on both the left and right were begging for security theater in the wake of 911, I was there opposing it and…