Shocked, shocked I am to see good intentions go off the rails You know, it seems like only yesterday a particularly odd combination of Americans was aligned on at least one point…the […]
Sentencing reform vs. Minority Report
Mental illness should not become a blanket barrier to owning a firearm
I want to buy a gun. As a kid, I loved westerns — those with Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, and John Wayne. They were heroes — good guys in white […]
Dead kids and funhouse mirrors
If 17 matter here but not 50,000 there, it’s not about kids Status update: Flu: day the next. Facebook: still a parade of sanctimonious headlines. Running out of fucks to give. Yes, […]
Arming teachers – a truly moronic idea (updated 8/14/2019)
Arming teachers doesn’t protect students, it turns schools into one-stop shopping for would-be school shooters.
18 school shootings this year? Not so fast, ABC
Good arguments require good facts My job as self-appointed Gadfly Supreme, Pedant General, and Defender of Truth, Justice, and /or the American Way is simple. I generally try to put my own […]
Reducing Newtown to “little convenient massacre” proves inconvenient for conservative NY Post commentator
On Monday, New York Post columnist Fredric Dicker made one of those huge gaffes for which conservatives are famous. Rival New York Daily News reports: The remark came while Dicker was discussing […]
“Open carry” could be the best friend gun control ever had
Far from reassuring the public, open carry ― the right to carry unconcealed weapons ― just might scare Americans more than crime itself. As you’ve no doubt heard, the latest preoccupation of […]
Americans will never fear everyday gun violence like they do terrorism
One they view as the cost of living in a free society, the other as war. “Not that the events weren’t shocking and brutal,” concedes Scott Atran at Foreign Policy about the […]
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