Bzzzzzt. Nope, wrong. People with mental illness are vastly, exponentially more likely to be victims of violence than the enacters of violence. The percentage of people who simultaneously kill someone with a firearm and have a mental illness is very small. The overwhelming majority of people killed with a firearm are…

I love how Chris Christie cites President Obama as a “king,” a wanna-be “dictator,” and a “petulant three-year-old child” for taking advantage of what is part of the scope of his job to do something about gun control. But yet Christie admits that he will presumably be a “king,” a wanna-be “dictator,” and a “petulant…

This is the country we seem to have chosen for ourselves.

Mr. Obama’s reliance on executive actions to deal with gun violence showed his inability to make deals with Congress

“Mandatory licensing for owners, registering them. Mandatory train for every purchase. Yearly taxes for every firearm owned”

This crooked, myopic Republican congress has continuously *bragged* about blocking things, just to make Obama look bad.

Screw them.

As long as it is totally legal, I fully support executive action in this matter. The time for Congress to act passed after they did nothing in reaction to Sandy Hook. I hope he does it and I’m enjoying this senior-itisy Obama.

“...psychological break between ‘carrying around a gun and occasionally firing it at people’ and ‘I am killing someone.’”

“the idea that gun owners are extremely responsible and competent individuals”

But we don’t need no gun control laws, nosirree! And if a lovely young woman’s life is ended before it could even begin by some waste of skin who was too shortsighted/idiotic/drunk/sociopathic/all four to care about the consequences of his actions well, that’s the price we have to pay!

This one is my favorite. I laugh involuntary when I saw it in the movie.

Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A, NRA branch meet-ups, REI.

And ESPECIALLY don’t read the comments on local news websites.

Not that I’d know....

......just a totally hypothetical scenario.

Don’t worry, Rocco, just wait until you’re 24 and you can lie in bed on a Sunday morning, eating three different types of cake for breakfast and resenting the fucked up relationship with food you have as a result of your mother’s crazy diet restrictions. Or something.

I...fully support a kid not getting an iPhone till after they’re 15

That’s like, ten more squats than a lot of people did today. :)

January’s always like that! Trying to recover from the Holiday “Normal Service Suspended” jag takes a few days or so.