Smart-lock technologies would make the firearm instantly available to the authorized user - who needs a gun safe if no one else can fire it? It would also mean that the homeowner who is standing their ground but is disarmed by an intruder at least won’t be getting shot by that intruder with their own weapon.

Various kinds of technology are available to personalize firearms so that they cannot fire unless the user is an authorized user. So-called “smart guns” (see wiki at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_gun ) are vehemently opposed by the NRA. While they won’t prevent a situation where a mass shooter is the registered…

I concur. I was surprised that Dan Patrick actually blamed abortion for the latest school shooting, because the evidence is clear that the exercise of abortion rights is associated with a reduction in violent crime roughly two decades later.

For some of the more recent scientific studies, see:

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That “all that any man has to say is I feel like a woman and it’s perfectly acceptable” is hogwash. That’s the Mike Huckabee “Coach, I feel like a girl today” line. The fact is that every trans-inclusive human rights law since 2011 has included an express provision identical or similar to the following:

Here are some scientific references - on brain structures: In 1995, in a peer-reviewed article in Nature, entitled A sex difference in the human brain and its relation to transsexuality [Nature 378, 68 - 70 (02 November 1995); doi:10.1038/378068a0] the researchers involved gave us a first glimmer into transsexual…

You might not know it, but butch lesbians are accosted in women’s restrooms all the time because they “look” like men, at least to the person accosting them.

Among other things, men tend to leave the seat up. It is bad enough at home where we don’t have separate bathrooms.

The “mental illness” is primarily an issue derived from cultural stress. The cure is transition. Trans people are genetically and developmentally different from persons with the same birth-assigned sex, to the extent that the initial assignment is erroneous. Essentially, in terms of development. while the genital…

I’d suggest that at some point Jazmina Saavedra’s immigration documentation should be carefully scrutinized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to see if there is any reason to have her citizenship revoked and to be deported back to her native Nicaragua. Given her creepy and voyeuristic current antics, it seems…

My last three Chryslers were built in Canada. My two Nissans were built in Tennessee, and my current Ford was built in Spain. I used to be one of those “Buy American” folks, and had purchased only Chrysler products for about 35 years. That has not made sense for a long time. My last Chrysler, built in Canada, was…

I had something like that happen to me in Albany NY a few years ago but it backfired on the perpetrators when I calmly showed the security officer my driver’s license and asked if I could go back and wash my hands.

Gender Identity is biologically-based. That has been confirmed by brain studies done around the turn of the millennium. There are also scientific studies that have uncovered genetic and developmental factors that lead to the brain differences.

There is a mountain of medical studies on trans folks. There are genetic and pre-natal developmental components - in essence, the brain develops in the first trimester along one of the gender lines, while the genital tract develops along the other - all it takes to go one way, is a gene that codes for super-efficient…

Are you suggesting that the trans woman in question was actually Mike “Coach I feel Like A Girl Today” Huckabee?

I wouldn’t want a man in the ladies’ restroom. But trans women are women.

If you’re referring to the woman in the picture you annexed, I’d suggest you might want to stop peering under the doors of bathroom stalls (assuming that’s how you’re judging the individual’s gender). It isn’t polite.

It may be that the woman suffers from one of those digestive disorders that cause an urgent need to defecate (such as Crohn’s, colitis, Irritable Bowel disease, etc.) and was about to poop in her pants if she couldn’t use the bathroom. In the US, states like Illinois and now New York, actually have laws requiring…

I was lucky last night. I waited at the office for the reds and yellows on the Weather Channe’s radar loop to pass before venturing out for the brief walk to Grand Central.  When I approached the Southwest corner of GCT at Vanderbilt and 42nd at around 6:10 PM, there was a crowd outside that could not get in. Rather…