I’m glad to know this for the future, thank you.

I’m so sorry for your loss — and that you learned the news this way. Holly was fortunate to be so rich in love and friendship.

Holly and I were Facebook friends. Holly was really nice. I’m fucking staggered. I gave up Facebook ages ago, so we hadn’t spoken in a while.

It’s becoming standard reporting practice to not give the deadnames (our term for what other people call “birth name”) of transgender people in news stories, especially in obituaries.

I don’t think this article is very nice, nor sensitive, and I say that as a lifelong Guardian fan

A further thought - you’ve quoted a stat of those who have permits. Can you share a statistic on perceived best guess illegal holding of a weapon?

Fair point and thanks for your response. As an outsider, I can’t help but be alarmed by the obvious matter of scale. Sure, only .02%of Americans carry, but as the article you shared States, that still equates to 11.1 million Americans who have sorted themselves out with a weapon with literally no justifiable reason…

> It’s really surprising just how onboard everybody on Gawker is with restricting civil rights without any form of due process.

A very important thing to understand is that this talking point (“the only thing protecting you from a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”) comes directly from the NRA (National Rifle Association). And these politicians get their marching orders from the NRA. But what most people don’t realize is that the NRA…

The only way to take away the right to gun ownership, without giving the Gummint the power to take ANY Constitutional right away, is a Constitutional Convention which removes or modifies the Second Amendment.

I feel I should preface this comment by saying I’m a Canadian expat with permanent residency in Australia where I’ve been living for five and a half years.

omg I literally did a spit take at this one haha

Okay then. How about we start with THIS open list: Everyone. No favoritism; no discrimination. America, whining spoiled toddler that it is, can’t play responsibly with its 300 million plus dangerous toys. So all the toys go Bye-Bye while we all get an extended time out in the Naughty Corner to reflect on our bad…

Owning a gun is a civil right?

The background checks for firearms purchase are already federal, with varying state requirements in addition, no? Doesn’t seem like it ought to be a problem.

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