It appears the coup will fail. It also appears as if Erdogan knew about it coming, its limited scale, and allowed to happen only to then crush it and continue crushing civil liberties and any opposition.

Words like these feel good, but we all know that achieves nothing. No more than 20 people are likely to be directly involved in this and finding and killing them (needs be done, no question) will not fix the larger issue.

At some point, high risk of violence from a certain religious group becomes impossible to ignore and calls for measures to be blindly applied to the whole group. I am talking directly about the topic of Syrian refuges in US.

Hey imbecile, gun-rights are status quo. As inconvenient as it is for you, constitution guarantees some basic rights, sorry!