7 dead, 7 wounded in Santa Barbara shooting rampage

Hard to argue with this.

 

Sorry LTL, that's not correct. The great bulk of Second Amendment scholarship is contrary to the argument proffered in that link.

 

I'm not up on it. What's the best citation?

The guy in that link certainly has the credentials, anyway.

 

Half-baked column still half-baked?

 

So what is the solution? Or are we all foolish to think there might be a way to prevent this from happening as frequently as it seems to be happening?

I'm not suggesting on any level that it's an easy fix or that any specific moves prevent this from happening again, but having covered one of these shootings, I get sick every time it happens again. I remember after covering one, someone told me, "You have to realize that there won't be anything like this again." and while I wanted to believe that at the time, that person could not have been more wrong.

 

There's no solution.

NRA wins. Get used to it.

 

Maybe we should blame every TV show or movie where a schlubby guy has a hot girlfriend or wife. Seems beyond ridiculous.

 

Sadly, I agree. When Newtown happened, I would have bet anything that the result would have been much stricter gun laws very quickly.

 

One day, the NRA will lose and probably lose big. It's not a question of "if" but "how."

We are in one most conservative eras of American history. It'll end. And we'll move on.

 

The next one is already plotting his Day of Retribution, scrawling his insipid manifesto.
We are well into Decline of the Roman Empire, Pt. II territory here, at this stage of the program.

 

If there's a time when the NRA loses, it's because of its friends, not its enemies. Like the yokels who show up armed for battle at Sonic, or the numbnuts in Georgia who walked through a kids' baseball game and showed everyone his gun, and told him there wasn't anything they could do about it. (He was right.) Even self-identified Second Amendment lovers were quoted in these cases as saying this was all bullshit. A line is being crossed from self-defense to intimidation, and maybe voters aren't going to react yet, but most every chain where open-carry extremists have had an "event" has eventually responded by banning guns or asking, politely, to please not wave them around.