Counterpoint, he’s better than half the starting QB’s in the league right now.

Even though you just explained how the Mummy ended up in Iraq Cheryl, it’s still very very very very fucking stupid.

No. As an example of how crazy the NRA has gotten, they are the entire reason America still hasn’t signed on to an international agreement to stop tall importation of ivory — because it would complicate the sale of antique firearms with ivory handles. They seriously lobbied to prevent that passing. It’s ridiculous,…

Aaah, ye olde “guns are tools” argument.
Fixed anything with your gun recently? Or built something?
I’m from Poland, which is, unfortunately, full of religious nutballs, but none of them scare me as much as gun-toting Americans

Yes the NRA can seem overzealous, but in my opinion they are no less fervent about protecting gun rights than PP is about protecting reproductive rights.

It’s true- white people discounting the perspective of black people is why this country can’t have nice things.

You could update both stories to the present. And as you’ve demonstrated, that wouldn’t necessarily be a bad idea, on its own. But Universal is trying to make a combined universe of action-heroes (or, possibly, anti-heroes). Neither character works particularly well within a pure action setting - while both stories…

“I miss the days when Giz was a tech blog....”

The problem is that there is gun violence in other areas, but we can’t stop it due to gun culture. If a mentally ill person wants to buy a gun, you can’t stop them, because hey, that takes away our freedom to buy guns! If police want to track certain purchases of guns to see if anyone in the area owns a particular…

Gun culture is not a problem.

Is it possible you don’t notice it because you’re immersed in it every day? As a Canadian, I increasingly find it very uncomfortable to visit the US. I no longer feel safe. And that’s not because of fear of being attacked by a gang. The fact that anyone can be carrying does not make me feel safe. It means I have…

That’s fine I guess, but it doesn’t reflect reality in which the vast majority of gun violence occurs in cities.

Hey, Universal. No thanks. We already got a monster mashup and it was great.

There are SO many other issues that are more acute and require our attention - income and wealth inequality, police brutality, voter supression, equal pay for equal work - and yet here we are chasing windmills.

What makes you assume the author is unfamiliar with the representation of white rural America? Saying he doesn’t know the actual town isn’t the same as understanding who and what it represents in this episode.

Why don’t I believe you’re a Liberal? lol

Saying gun violence occurs more in urban areas and not small towns is like saying shark attacks occur near beaches and not in the open water. Everything has a higher rate in urban areas simply because there are more people.

I also consider myself a proud progressive, but I take a lot of issue with some of the writing here for “liberal navel gazing”and a lot of people don’t like what I say, whatever. I thought this article was spot on and wow did Corbin Bernsen nail the menace of this God and yeah, it felt like today’s America. I know a…

“Proud” Independent here. Article seemed on point to me.

Yep, that’s what I think when a black man writes about an episode of television which — however unsubtly — covers both American gun culture and how tightly tied it is to racism.