Yep. The guy said that by the time he knew what was going on, the SWAT Team had already arrived and he did not want them to think he was the shooter. And of course that was his reaction. The average response time of police is like 5 minutes: you can easily blow right through that when your mind is in overdrive with…

Generally speaking, that is probably because you are not male:

Starred for truth. I’ve read a lot about gun violence and you can’t do that without learning about gun usage: in every armed rebellion since the start of the 20th century, the rebels are entirely ineffective without heavy weapons. Without mortars and artillery and tanks and jets and anti-aircraft weapons the rednecks…

That was my point: the patriarchy created this guy. And its all of our faults. He had parents and teachers and community leaders who never engaged with him, who probably told him all about “being a man” and probably said stuff like “he will grow out of it” and assumed lots of things for him. It’s the same story time…

Here is a good opinion piece on why so many killers are male and fit this guy’s profile.

Hates Christians but identifies with a group so steeped in religion as the Republicans. Just, gah.

THE CORNY DAD JOKES WERE THE BEST YOU SHUT UP

I read that as "fuck" the first time instead of date. So... samesies?

As far as private sales are concerned, there is actually already an existing mechanism for it: the FFL transfer. FFL transfers require the use of a gun shop to sell weapons private across state lines and usually shops charge $20-$60 for the service. All that would need to change is that it would be required to sell a…

I loved the book and you and I are DONE. I am so mad at you.

Counter-counterpoint: YOU SUCK.

I don’t particularly care for any gun, but I do study (as an amateur) gun violence. Sort of a grim sociological hobby of mine.

Actually, the overwhelming majority of shooting deaths in this country are not rifles. In 2012 less than 120 over 10,000 gun deaths were rifles (Assault weapons are rifles). 300 or so were shotguns, and 6800 were handguns. Another number were of indeterminate type, but if they follow the statistically distribution…

I mean you are assuming that this guy had no interest in his own offspring as a default setting for his reaction to it. That is a horribly negative mindset to have about anyone, let alone a victim.

He could also be really sad that the child he had anyway is dead. You know, I think that is something that is at least as likely to be true as your scenario.

Same! People who don't like baseball should not go to baseball games. Why are they even there?

Baseball’s a calm enough game that it does not require CONSTANT ATTENTION.

White girls, however....

ZING!

This happened in front of me at a Royals game recently. Like, ugh, white girls STAHP already. We get it. You have instagram. Some of us are trying to watch the game not you with your phone in the air.