Its frightening that such proud defenders of the second amendment have absolutely no respect for the guns or gun safety. As a child the first thing I was taught about guns is that they are not toys, they aren’t props, they aren’t something to be handled with carelessness, and they are ALWAYS loaded. It seems Brian…

shutting the fuck up is always an option for him.

I don’t think you really understand the implications of what you think is “doable but hard”. Almost everything anyone does during the course of their day is inextricably intertwined some form of socialization in our society. You can’t just remove a certain segment of the population from that because somehow some way…

We would need to allow an “escape valve” for the most rebellious Libertarian wack-jobs to actually “go it alone” with no support from society.

I’ll admit that healthcare is a mess, but I know of no program that government gets involved in where they make things better and cheaper. Why would anyone think healthcare is an exception?

Expensive plans for expenisve treatments for rich folks and mandatory single payer aren’t mutually exclusive though. People on medicare can get private medicare supplement plans. Or the same with social security. everyone has to have it, but you can still get into a 401k, or an IRA.

Your mom’s doctor? I have no idea if they were discredited or investigated. I’m not aware of any study that has determined that formula is dangerous or bad, or have seen anything about a large number of adults with health problems because they were formula fed. I do think breast feeding is probably better, but there…

Where who discredited and investigated?

So your mom fed you with formula instead of breast milk? Is there supposed to be a point that goes along with this?

I trust my doctor. I trust studies conducted by countless doctors and universities that say that vaccines are not dangerous. I trust that I will never get measles, polio, or small pox because I, and others have been getting safely vaccinated for decades.

My children trust that I love them and will only give them the best advice I can offer, based upon my love of science and technology.

If everyone’s body is sacrosanct I assume you aren’t oppressing your children by forcing them to be exposed to the risk of infection by some pretty awful diseases...

“Expressing views that just five or ten years ago were considered mainstream can now get you fired,”

Here’s the thing...you can look all you want, but the banning of all guns has NEVER been considered in any serious way. That notion is nothing but hyperbole from the gun manufacturing lobby. To continue to argue or put effort into this slippery slope fallacy it is pointless.

You really should research your low hanging fruit before you post it. See there is this thing called context. For example, Feinstein was referring to assault weapons when talking about the Brady bill...

Putting aside that historically, many of the same organizations and legislators who are now calling for an assault weapons ban were, indeed, advocating for drastic reductions or complete bans on individual ownership of guns,

and then they lead to an increase in violent crime against citizens who criminals know will now be unarmed.