Thank you for all the information, Darigaaz.

This is just so sad. I have a dear friend who is a reporter and Ms. Parker reminds me of her and I am just having a very hard time processing all of this. Thank you for answering all my questions, Ladyheatherlee.

The one thing I appreciated about the Gawker coverage was that they included a freeze-frame screencap of the shooter, who you can see for a second at the end of the footage. Basically staring at the camera with the gun still raised. He looks exactly as terrifying and repulsive and awful as you’d expect.

So I started Googling in a desperate bid to figure out how I could have been so blissfully deluded ignorant when it comes to gun “control.” The precautionary measures I thought existed do indeed exist ... but can be easily avoided (!) and/or are not adequately enforced by gun retailers due to, well, a multitude of…

WHAT. I thought AK-47s were illegal. I’ve played video games, I know those things are automatic (or semi-automatic?). I thought semi-automatic and automatic guns were NOT LEGAL TO OWN BY ANY CITIZEN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EVER.

Fucking hell. I thought they ran a background check that flagged people who had been arrested or institutionalized/have diagnosed psychiatric disorders. Why does anyone ever go outside?

Just how easy is it to get a gun? I honestly don’t know the first thing because, you know, I don’t own a gun and nobody in my family owns a gun. I heard once you can buy a gun in Oklahoma without even showing your license, but that sounds apocryphal.

Hey, if I had the money, I’d bring along a bottle of cognac to the airport just so I’d “have to” chug it before boarding a flight, too.

I genuinely don’t understand how people can continue supporting Jon Hamm. He sexually assaulted a fellow University of Texas student.

Religious cause and effect exists outside of time. Also, practically everyone could make prophecies about practically anything back then.

See the film if you want, don’t pay for it. Either watch a rip online or buy a ticket to see Fantastic Four (’cause, let’s face it, it could use the $15 at this point) and then just wander into the “wrong” theatre.

I thought it was a square of toilet paper.

I would have chastised the fuck out of that woman. My ex boyfriend always said I was wasting my time: “You’re going to try to make someone stop being an asshole . . . by being an asshole to them?” And I’d always say, “Um, no. I’m trying to make someone stop being an asshole by making them feel like an asshole who will…

If by “resembles” you mean “looks absolutely nothing fucking like.” Then, yes. The resmeblance is uncanny.

For the record, if I saw anybody do that, I’d immediately want to be their friend. Whadya say? Be my friend?

I think it upsets you because there, directly in front of you, stands the reason oppression is perpetuated. These are the members of the oppressed majority blithely celebrating and insisting upon their own subjugation.

I am still in the greys and this freak is in the black here on Jez.

I live on the West Coast. I had a suspicious lump in my breast that, based on the nosedive my health had taken, was likely a metastasized tumor. (Breast cancer runs in my family.) After seeing a doctor who suggested I get an ultrasound, after which I was given a referral to see a specialist, it took an additional three…

Or Madam Tussaud’s version of John Travolta, circa 1975.