Protip: don’t put quotes around things I haven’t said. At no point have I said that it has never happened. It is not a thing that happens with any kind of statistical significance, so using this fantasy to make policy is irresponsible.

There’s nothing for you to buy here. Civilians do not stop shooters with guns. That’s not a thing, whether it agrees with your narrative of guns providing a magical forcefield or not.

...I always say “hi” or “hey”. Is this wrong?

Aaaand I have a new favorite phrase.

The evidence does not show that it deters people. The evidence also does not show that good people in possession of guns actually stop active shooters. The people who think they’re Rambo freeze (understandably) and the people with the training to keep their cool know better than to pull out more guns.

I still can’t wrap my head around leaving your small kids for this. There are situations I can imagine leaving my kids for a short time, but to group date a total stranger? I mean, I wouldn’t leave my cat for that.

“[...]and the people who love you”

You definitely seem like the type of person I would confess my fears to. I bet you would totally hear it, too, if a woman in your life told you.

No. Just...no. It’s talking about the fear (anxiety, whatever) you feel when interacting with someone in this context. The man doesn’t know for sure that the woman he is talking is going to reject him - it’s a possibility. The woman doesn’t know that the man is going to kill her - it’s a possibility.

That would be an amazing job.

Yeah, I recently split with my partner after 11 years, and we’d had a joint account for like 7 or 8 of that. It was mildly annoying to deal with splitting everything out, but honestly, the convenience of not having to transfer money back and forth for years to pay bills was worth the annoyance of dividing everything.

I work in an ER, and we have cameras in our trauma bay, and one exam room - the room where sexual assault victims are examined. The exam room canera only gets turned on when they’re doing an actual SA exam.

Yes! I realized it for the first time watching Torchwood. I was like, wait, Gwen is only getting a gun once she joins the alien squad? Craaaazy!

Jesus, I love you. Yes!!

Because Ross is the worst. And some of us have trouble separating actors from their characters.

Everything is weird in the suburbs?

Fact: if it happened in Clueless, I’m probably okay with it.

I CANNOT GET THIS DOPEY SMILE OFF MY FACE. HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP?!?!

I periodically forget that GG is coming back. Every time I remember it’s like pure joy again.

Wait, Bill Pullman is still president after all these years?