Shot himself!

that is a staggeringly scary set of statistics... the number of mass shootings that don't even get reported says it all. There's a page full for August alone.

I'm not quite sure what else needs to happen in order to prompt a change in gun laws...probably one lone crazed gunman to take out the entire board of NRA

If you listen very carefully this was playing somewhere in the background...
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Too soon...

You're asking me what it's all about, and I can't tell you because I don't know what's going on myself.

If she been holding a gun whilst she had been interviewing and maybe an Uzi over the shoulder, as the NRA will advise she should have done in a minute a two, this would have probably saved her life.

Big chest and massive boobs

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Jim Jefferies agrees with you (very sweary and unsafe for work video)
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We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Another example of the dichotomy that is America; it gets so much right and so much completely wrong. I swung between thinking it was the best place in the entire world for parts of any given day, and the worst in other parts. I couldn't settle there, and not for want for want of trying. Too much of it was simply alien to my view of how a society should live (that's not a criticism; just my personal reflection.)

I find it hard to articulate myself when it comes to the gun debate. You can argue interpretations of the constitution, you can argue logic and you can debate morality but the truth is that guns are just wrong but change happens when the population is motivated to demand it and for whatever reason, American's by and large are disinclined to do something about the private ownership of weapons. Yes, the NRA are scum but for all their influence, America is not a nation of puppets. As Paul Weller wryly observed, the public gets (eventually) what the public wants.

And so America goes on, lurching from gun crime to gun crime. At some point, it will stop and the NRA will lose simply because America is civilised and civilised countries get there in the end. But I doubt it will be any time soon and not without a painful and bloody fight.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.