It’s not fear, it’s training. (Despite the perfunctory ‘feared for my life’ testimony.) It’s beaten into them, thoroughly, that if anyone comes at you with a weapon, you draw your gun and you put them down. It’s not something they take chances with. The myth of the noble American law man (see ANY John Wayne movie) is…

Thank you for your service, Jack.

If you’re a cop in his 30s, in reasonably ok shape, and you’re so terrified of a 66 year old woman with a bat that you have to shoot her, then either your training was inadequate, or you just might possibly be a massive bitch.

I really don’t want to hear that he feared for his life. She had a baseball bat and was an elderly woman. Where was his taser? You mean to tell me that a strong young man couldn’t subdue an elderly woman with a baseball bat without using a gun? For real? This man should never be allowed to operate with a weapon much…

They’re smart enough to realize that a decent amount of oversight, combined with limiting access to high-powered military grade weaponry for the general public, is a good idea...

“Alright you guys, I know what I’m about to tell you sounds extremely, like window-lickingly, stupid, but hear me out...”

He’s waiting for his shit to drop and then be like, “but look at all the good I do for the womenz!”

Yeah, because identifying and fixing the broken people, instead of just taking the tools that allow them to go on a rampage away from EVERYONE, but leave the broken people walking around, is such a fucking stupid idea...

Maybe you’re not a native English speaker, but “calm” is a noun, not just an adjective.

This all hinges on two things:
1. if the initial agreement confirms that it had to be on the final agreement, then it will be in Cena’s favor.
2. If the final agreement says it supercedes all previous agreements, then it will be in Cena’s favor.

Any other situation, and he loses.

However, since the contract explicitly…

It means this shit is as old as Charleton Heston’s last diaper.

Because the people who shout ‘not muh guns!1!one!’ are often times the same people who insist that free/low-cost (mental) health insurance is an entitlement only afforded to those who have bootstraps from which to pull themselves up by?

Universal health care.

Good god what a fucking moron

I too like Metal Gear Solid and Tom Clancy novels.

Thoughts and prayers were reported near the scene at 3:20 PM today.

I can’t see the Gadsden Flag without thinking of this:

... has an endowment of $7.5 billion

The ice breaking is preferable.