I can actually see in the Jessica Rabbit one that her finger is laying against the frame and not in the trigger guard, but that first picture in the article looks like someone ‘shopped the fuck out of her hand to make it look like she doesn’t have her finger on the trigger.

And she’ll exploit it to push legislation that would have done fuck-all to save any of the lives that were lost.

Treatment is always going to produce superior results to imprisonment. This approach will also likely result in a lower rate of crime down the road, since fewer people will be busted for non-violent petty crimes that would then label them as unemployable, forcing them to turn to criminal activity to survive.

And that’s why we can’t have nice things.

This would almost make me go back to doing customer service.

I don’t even think UT-Austin is going to give that much of a fuck. My prediction: the protest happens, nobody gets arrested because nobody really gives a damn if people want to wave dildos around on a campus full of adults, campus carry goes through anyway, the bloodbath of innocents with professors getting shot for…

I KNEW IT.

There is such an organization.

So we have a mechanism to address private sales and gun shows, and it just needs turned on so to speak.

I would absolutely have no problem with this, provided an exception to the waiting period could be made for people who all ready own more than one firearm. Someone intent on shooting someone probably isn’t going to wait until that special gun comes on order if they all ready have one, and a straw purchaser won’t be…

If I want to take out a bunch of folks, I don’t have to be particularly skilled in shooting. Just unlock, point, and squeeze the trigger. Instant shower of gunfire.

Caution in such a situation is fine and understandable. Absolute fear, however, is a product of ignorance. Especially here in the US, where 99.9% of firearms owners never cause anyone harm, yet people lose their fucking minds if they see a securely holstered handgun, or talk about how they’re afraid to leave their…

So, the facebook story about an armed serviceperson being told to leave a Waffle House is debunked by... another facebook story. But I guess this one is more factual because it confirms the biases held by a lot of people here, amirite?

I’m always slightly bewildered by anyone who acts like a holstered or slung firearm is suddenly going to seize control of its owner and force them to slaughter everyone within range, so there’s that.

There are far too many people these days who confuse bigotry and racism. Yes, asshole anti-gun people, you can be (and usually are) bigoted against people who own guns.

It’s actually pretty simple. It’s a wedge issue that can be used to fracture voter blocs to their advantage. Despite there being generations’ worth of Democratic voters who own firearms for both sport and self-defense, the mainstream Democratic school of thought on firearms since about the 1960s or so is that firearms…

Yeah, this kind of shit and other stories besides are why I laugh when people angrily insist that I don’t need personal firearms to protect my family and myself because that’s what the police are for. That’s not their job. Never has been. Some of them may do it anyway because it’s right, but their job is to maintain…

I wish you luck on finding a place and hopefully a good roomie. The rental market in the PDX area is awful, my family and I barely found a place out near Tigard in time to avoid being homeless. Also, brace yourself for the phenomenon of “pet rent” for your pooch, but some places will waive it if she’s a companion…

Public shootings, usually perpetrated by people who have issues relating to control or perceived powerlessness, are up in a time when any public shooting gets massive press attention and the perpetrator becomes a boogeyman figure to terrify millions.

Funny, I thought the reason we needed to ban guns was because they turned ordinary violent criminals into invincible super criminals who can’t be stopped in their murderous rampages until they turn the gun on themselves. I guess this one incident means we don’t have to be worried about that anymore, since a bunch of…