Donnie: I’m sure he meant well…
“You had a guy on one side who was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also potentially very violent, and nobody wants to say that, but I’ll say it right now. You had people who are very fine people on both sides.”
— From the upcoming New York Times Best Seller “Recycling Trump”
Repost this EVERYWHERE!
Don’t Touch The Hair …
Comrade Cockholster should take time off the links to make the 45-minute drive to Parkland and meet with the parents of these dead children … so they can tear him limb from limb.
Alternately, the parents could make the trip en masse to Grift-a-Lotto. I’m sure he’d be happy to see them.
Imagine his surprise when he sees the Broward County Public School district bus at the gate. Good times.
Sorry Tio. It will be out there on the links taking Mulligans all happy and grabbing presidential groupies. If there’s no money or old goat action he could care less.
Stop calling for gun control laws… they don’t work. We need to put an end to the collective insanity that is gun ownership in the US.
There’s only one thing to be done: we clearly must ban backpacks from schools.
Thr obvious NRA answer to the issue: have students pay an activity fee at the beginning of the year that goes to purchasing each of them a new Glock pistol. One gym class per week can be devoted to teaching safe handling and shooting at silhouette targets. Free NRA life membership is included.
Oh, and the latest victims, as always, have our thoughts and prayers.
What Congress has accomplished since Sandy Hook is zero, bupkus, nada.
You’re getting Oniony on us.
I notice on this page we’re invited to hear Governor Stand Your Ground Scott talk with Wolf. I predict: Prayers, mental health treatment, blah blah and deep regrets for pain and sorrows.
Am I the only one who wishes that Josh would allow us to comment on his editorial posts? Because this one (among others) is why I subscribe to Prime. And it bugs me that I have to post separately on a different article to say it.
" Yesterday I had what was for me at least a minor epiphany: A major driver of gun massacres is not simply our failure to act on any one of the various proposed incremental reforms. It is our failure to act on any of them or all of them, ever, which validates and encourages a culture of massacre.
I want to be clear precisely what I mean. Our inaction itself and the clear reasons for our collective inaction validate and inspire the culture of massacre. Directly. By doing nothing we validate a simple point: the total, maximal right to have any number of guns of any sort in any circumstance is not only more important but overwhelmingly more important than preventing school massacres. "
Russian bots weigh in on shooting:
“This American carnage stops right here … I’ll be able to make sure that when you walk down the street in your inner city, or wherever you are, you’re not going to be shot. Your child isn’t going to be shot.”
— Cadet Bone Spurs, Jan. 20, 2017
I wonder how that has worked out?
I kinda understand why he does not allow comments on his editorial pieces. This may not apply to you, but some readers can drive an editor nuts Then it attracts the trolls. For me, I’ve got plenty of space to drop my pearls.
But there are trolls everywhere else, why is the Editors Blog different? He can ignore them just as well there as on any other post. I’ve suggested that he at least allow comments from Prime members. It’s not like Andrew Sulllivan’s The Dish, where there were just no comments allowed at all. That made sense for the reason you suggest, but if you’re going to allow comments, then why not allow them anywhere? It’s part of the richness of the site and the interaction that is one of the (many) things that makes it worth coming here.
As John Cleese lamented on Bill Mauer’s show last year, satire is essentially dead in relation to Trump because the reality has become so absurd.
Dunno. I understand both arguments.
Wrong! So wrong! Congress has accomplished a lot on guns. They cleared the way for people on the no fly list to buy guns. They got rid of that silly restriction on the mentally ill and incompetent buying guns. They protected our rights to buy and have as many assault weapons as we want, along with large volume magazines and bump stocks that make them even more fun. They made sure we don’t have inconvenient background checks and waiting periods, or anything that would interfere with the joys of impulse buying at gun shows. And, as a side bonus, they’ve really supported the funeral industry.
@tiowally To be fair, he was talking about being shot while walking down the street. The people killed in the 18 school shootings so far this year were shot while hanging out in class.