Poor Fox News. The Las Vegas Shooter does not fit the mold of a Muslim terrorist, so they are all bumfuzzled trying to politicize the tragedy while telling others not to. Great job at The Daily Show for this:
The Bloody Morning After
You know what is the worst thing about today — the first full day after a horrible mass shooting in the United States? [UPDATE – Extremely graphic NSFW disturbing video can be seen here — view at your on risk] The worst thing is that there is nothing to say that hasn’t been said previously in other horrible mass shootings. We … Read More
USA Breaks Record For Mass Deaths By Gun Shooting
And here we go again. Politicians will send thoughts and prayers and… My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2017 … right… condolences and sympathies, etc… and then nothing will be done. So here’s what happened. There are now at least … Read More
The Terrorist You Won’t Hear About
A terrorist armed with guns and a thousand round of ammunition failed in his attempt to go on a shooting spree in America, killing and wounding unknown numbers. You don’t about this story, because he failed in his attempt. And also, because the terrorist is a right wing white guy: The FBI arrested an alleged right-wing extremist who had amassed … Read More
Is The “Second Amendment People” Comment Trump’s Worst Gaffe?
As we all know by now, Trump yesterday hinted that gun lovers could (or should? or would?) shoot Hillary Clinton and/or a Supreme Court nominee as a response to Hillary Clinton selecting judges for the Supreme Court. Here’s the comment and campaign responses in a nutshell: The spin from the Trump campaign is laughable. Today, his campaign surrogates received the … Read More
Aaaand Trump Steps In It
He was doing so well, until he started riffing. He went a little too far from the script. Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges — nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I dunno. [Applause and … Read More
50 Years Ago Today
Fifty years ago today, Charles Whitman, a 25-year-old engineering student and former Marine armed with a small arsenal of weapons, killed 13 people and wounded over 30 more during a shooting rampage atop the University of Texas Tower in Austin. The episode casts a long and complicated shadow. It is considered by some to have marked the beginning of the … Read More
How’s That Open Carry Working Out For You?
Although it was a tragedy, the Dallas sniper shooting of 5 police officers was a reality-based experiment on the theory that a good guy with a gun beats a bad guy with a gun. Not only did the bad guy with a gun kill five armed good guys, but the bad guy was killed with a robot using explosives (one … Read More
More and More, It Looks Like The Dallas Cop Killer Was A Nut
Dallas police now believe that Micah Johnson, who shot and killed 5 Dallas police following a Black Lives Matter march, was actually planning some sort of mass attack, but advanced his plans to take advantage of the BLM march. His house was full of bomb making equipment, far too much to have put together in recent days. He had received … Read More
Two Deadly Police Shootings In Two Days
Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was standing in the parking lot selling CDs as he had for years when two white cops arrived on Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning he was dead and protesters were in the city’s streets. Calls erupted from Congress and the NAACP for an independent investigation into the shooting, which the Justice Department announced within … Read More
Democratic House Sit-In Enters Day Two
Late last night, Ryan managed to adjourn the House until after the July 4th break: After a chaotic, daylong occupation of the House floor, Republican leaders moved in the middle of the night to cut off House Democrats’ gun control “sit-in” by adjourning the House through the July 4 — without a vote on gun control. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) … Read More
Realistically, Here Is What Would Happen
Terrorist — we’ll call him Shooter A — walks into a crowded room (say, a nightclub) and starts opening fire. Immediately, some people fall, stricken by Shooter A. Others instinctively dive under the tables or behind the bar or run out of the room to the bathrooms. Brave Shooter B, a patron, reacts quickly. In half a second, he draws … Read More
Breaking: Literally “On The House Floor”
Dozens of House Democrats are staging a “sit-in” on the House floor until they are allowed a vote on a so-called “no fly, no buy” gun control bill. It is the most dramatic action by House Democrats on gun control since the Orlando shooting on June 12 that left 49 dead and 53 wounded. Two weeks ago, in the Senate, … Read More
The Four Bills Up For Debate And Vote In The Senate
Thanks to Senator Murphy’s 15-hour talk-a-thon on the Senate floor last week, Senate Republicans are willing to allow votes on certain gun control proposals. But don’t expect success — in part because 60 votes are needed to break a threatened Republican filibuster. Nevertheless, here are the four proposals – all submitted as amendments to a Justice Department spending bill…….. The Democratic proposals: Brought … Read More
Supreme Court Cases We’re Watching
It’s getting close to the end of the Supreme Court term, and this is when controversial cases start coming out. Although a few cases were handed down today, they weren’t the ones on my particular radar. The ones of national import, I believe, are: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (argued December 9, 2015). This case, a challenge to … Read More