If the NRA had it their way, there’d be guns in every public building, in glass cases, like fire extinguishers.

It’s such a stupid talking point. Arm the teachers, really? So where are they going to keep the gun? On their person at all time? A shooter can still come in and shoot a teacher before they even draw. Should they be brandishing a gun at all times just in case? What if some kids break into the desk where the gun is…

I’ve always felt the same. I hate the argument for AR15's and other semi automatic weapons of “it’s to protect myself and my family” like who are you expecting to show up, the hit squad at the end of Scarface or John Wick?

Gotta love in the USA Today article linked at the top how they’re still trying to paint the cops as heros. They didn’t “breach” the classroom, someone unlocked the door for them. And, its not an issue of whether they acted quickly enough, because they didn’t act at all.

Yup. People don’t get it. Real life isn’t like the movies. How many times have you heard of a true civilian successfully fending off a perpetrator using a gun? I’m 40 and I’ve heard of it happening like two times and it’s always a retired soldier or some kind of very experienced gun handler. There are just so many…

ban people *but leave their wallets* LOL

Plus, that would easily triple the IQ of the audience.

Eta: I live in Texas: The people who supposedly agree aren’t voting in the state and local elections. Texas had a bunch of primary run-off’s for Lt. Gov, Secretary General, State Board of Education...I was in and out in less than 6 minutes because NO ONE was there (at 11, before the shooting). There are a number of…

Well coke and sex orgies involving *them*

I’m thinking the homoerotic stuff didn’t help him.

This article kind of misses a key point (and further fuels it) that there isn’t really a huge shortage of baby formula, but saying there is risks actually creating the problem they claim to be so egregious.

The GOP use the distraction by stocking hate at another group tactic because it works so well. Guaranteed to ensure their base don’t notice the GOP either created the problem or is doing nothing to address it. And it works because that is exactly what the base wants. If anyone of any race/class/education/political…

Baby formula should go to Americans before illegals.

These people want children to die. These people want to force women to give birth to unwanted children they (Republican politicians) would let starve. These people want women to die. They want to burn books. They want to erase the history of oppression of black and brown people in this country from being taught to…

Yes yes yes, the parts that expanded health care were popular and the parts that paid for that were not (only among fools, though). That part’s certainly true, although not particularly meaningful.

This. So many of my fellow progressives act like if Bernie Sanders had won everything would be okay. That is so absurd and stupid it’s difficult to take them seriously on anything else and I supported Sanders. If he had been president with a Republican controlled congress what is happening to Biden would have happened…

They had ONE THING they could get through when they had a very short term super majority and choose the thing not currently enshrined into law, the ACA. Which was the best healthcare bill they could get passed. Be mad they couldn’t do better, not mad they wouldn’t.

Lose it, then, Elie.

As I tried to tell a number of people last week, don’t.