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Remington files for bankruptcy:

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It’s almost like these guys don’t know what to do without a gun-snatching Democratic boogeyman in the White House.

 

It might actually help Trump a little if it came out he bumped fuzzies with Omarosa.

 

Schools are much safer from school shootings than they were 25 years ago.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/...e-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says/

The biggest change really in crime in America was the 1994 crime bill, which put more cops on the streets, locked up more criminals for longer periods of time and dramatically reduced all kinds of crime. One could also argue it created more of a police state than we’ve ever had and is the primary source of skyrocketing incarceration rates in America.

It’s also called by its critics a shining example of systemic racism.

That said, it helped dramatically reduce school shootings - as did the Brady bill.

Which is why all of this is much trickier than some think. Any significant changes to gun law in America *will* adversely affect the poor more than the rich, which means it’ll affect black Americans more, which will lock more of them up, which will perpetuate the cycle of systemic racism.

But it’ll probably save lives, too.

 

That also doesn’t even take into account the hundreds of other ways and places kids get shot and killed in this country.

 

Doesn't include colleges either, which have a higher percentage of incidents. I guess what bugged me about Kirk's stats is that shootings just don't affect those who are killed. Or seriously injured. They traumatize and define an entire community.
I'm sure most of the Parkman students are most upset that nothing seems to be done, they don't want the deaths and injuries of their friends to be "just another" school shooting that will be forgotten as soon as the next one happens.

 

Back to the March: one of the speakers was an 11-year-old girl. Her speech was three minutes long and says in part:

“It is my privilege to be here today and I am indeed full of privilege - my voice has been heard. People have said I am too young to have these thoughts on my own. People have said I am a tool of some nameless adult. It’s not true. My friends and I might still be eleven, and we might still be in elementary school, but we know - we know life isn’t equal for everyone and we know what is right and wrong. We also know we stand in the shadow of the Capitol and we know we have seven short years until we too have the right to vote. So I am here today to honor the words of Toni Morrison, ‘if there is a book that you want to read that hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.’ I urge everyone here and everyone who hears my voice to join me in telling the stories that aren’t told, to honor the girls, the women of color who are murdered at disproportionate rates in this nation. I urge each of you to help me write the narrative for this world and understand so that these girls and women are never forgotten.”

As a former journalist should I be skeptical? I read the WaPo story on this girl and she seems very conversant and precocious in her interviews.

That said, it seems like a big leap for an 11-year-old to accept a speech invite on a Thursday, write this in two days, and have it self-consciously acknowledge criticism that they may not be her words, much less have a concept of privilege that’s right out of a liberal academic playbook. Toni Morrison writes way above an 11-year-old’s level of reading, so that’s an interesting name drop, although she could have just found that quote online. But, yeah. Pretty sophisticated speech, the one that says “I know you think I didn’t write this.”

I concede there’s a possibility I’m a cynic in this one. I’m a bit of a cynic in general, but perhaps too much so in this case.

 

The chances of any individual building being struck by lightning are infinitesimal.

And yet we put lightning rods on all of them.

 

It bankrupted Remington:

Remington, the oldest gun maker in the United States, files for bankruptcy

 

An impeachment damages the brand. Period. Al Gore had less baggage than Bill Clinton, but no Dems were eager to see Bill ousted in favor of Al.

It's one of 23,469,105,285 inaccurate/misrepresenting memes on the web. And the only one that people are rushing to "correct."

 

Like arming teachers and adding police officers to schools and hardening the targets?

 

Opinion | Donald Trump: Man at War

“Aides said there was no grand strategy to the president’s actions, and that he got up each morning this week not knowing what he would do. Much as he did as a New York businessman at Trump Tower, Mr. Trump watched television, reacted to what he saw on television and then reacted to the reaction.”

This is all gut and instinct. This is all reactionary emoting by a man of poor character, one addicted to affirmation. He desperately needs to be the king-of-every-hill he sees in the mirror: He was the ladies’ man, businessman, smartest man, toughest man. There was nothing beyond him, and he didn’t have to follow the rules, he only had to follow his instincts.

But Washington politics is a long way from New York City real estate. Wrangling Senate votes is a long way from prowling for playmates. This is the big leagues and this little man is feeling the stress and strain of it.

 

Anyone know how Remington is doing in all this?