Not only can you, I think it would be irresponsible *not* to.

After doing it for almost 20 years, I can promise you that it really doesn’t do a thing to improve your outlook on humanity in general.

Apparently the obsession with doing everything on the cheap means that they haven’t managed to hire an IT person that understands that breaking a link is slightly useless if you leave the damn documents in a publicly accessible folder on the server...

There must be a *really* good prize in the contest. I can’t think of any other reason why someone would work so hard to be a fucking idiot.

Well, I suppose that if we’d like to delve deeply into pedantic minutia, we could point out that toads would actually happily drain the swamp, frogs would have a differing opinion.

Meh, I don’t know about that. So few people have the hips for lycra.

“Why do you accept double standards?”

See what light? The light that says perhaps if they weren’t spending their time calling this idiotic tip line, they’d have called the police or child protective services and actually gotten something done to arrest and prosecute the alleged child molester?

Funny thing, though. When asked about specific gun control measures, voters overwhelmingly support them - as long as the term ‘gun control’ isn’t used.

There’s a deeply cynical part of me that finds it morbidly amusing to realize that if they’re going to wait until there’s no recent high profile shooting to bring this bill to the floor, then we don’t have to worry about ever seeing it again.

And god forbid you be even slightly inconvenienced in your acquisition of death toys.

No, they did not find the shooter thanks to smoke alarms. The alarms *did* help confirm the location, as did the actual smoke coming from the room.

It’s the NRA’s version of “But her emails....”

And of course, since there’s no other nutcases out there, there’s no reason to try to prevent future shootings.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think making suppressors more readily available is going to do a damn thing to fix terminal stupidity.

Any chance they’re *not* going to say it?

I’m thinking it’s actually looking at crazy in the rear-view mirror.

No, the talk didn’t start right away about banning silencers. Silencers are already heavily restricted; the NRA-owned Congress is suggesting removing those restrictions under the pretense that it’s necessary to protect the poor little shooter’s hearing. They’re also intent on removing restrictions against cop-killer…

It hasn’t stopped a depressing number of nimrods from suggesting that if just someone in the crowd had had a gun, they could have returned fire and saved the day.

Give ‘em time. They’re just working up to it.