I continue to hope police officers will come around to understanding their role in the community differently — and their duty TO the community — and will begin to voluntarily decline to carry a gun on patrol.

Indeed. Our media consumption choices have no moral value, after all.

Sounds like you might be an advocate of traffic penalties calculated as a percentage of income rather than according to a fixed fees schedule. No?

You ducked my question, and misrepresented my answer. That doesn’t persuade anyone of anything.

You have a strange view of the idea of “force.” I take the Rousseauvian view of liberalism: that we reach a point of agreement through persuasion, not compulsion.

“How exactly, does me owning a firearm hurt you, disparage you, or affect your life, specifically?”

Not a numbers guy, are ya?

You’re trying to persuade us that we live in a society that conforms to your hideous description. We don’t.

Thanks for commenting, Jon!

Allow me to be the first to welcome our adorable mocha-complected overlords,

Why wait to be asked? Do your part and mail him coat hangers now.

Thank you for commenting, Dean Cooley.

Go get ‘em.

Sounds like you did a terrible job managing the human resources lined up under your supervision.

“I am about as liberal as they come...”

No, it is not Christian; but every Scout and Scouter has to sign a form which includes a line affirming religious belief in a higher power.

True thing!

Half a century, or a thousand years?

Do you think I don’t know the difference between organized and nonorganized labor?