Shooting at Las Vegas casino

So the lesson is to move to either Wyoming or Idaho, where presumably there are a large percentage of hunters.

 

Shit. My high school played Arundel all the time. God bless her and her family.

 

CBS lawyer fired for Las Vegas Facebook post about 'Republican gun-toters'
Stay classy. Glad CBS moved quickly on this.

 

She post here?

 

If you want new gun control laws, you need to find common ground. Telling somebody grandpa's semi-auto will be illegal isn't how you get there.

Moreover, what's the line on banning semi-autos? Rifles only? Rifles and pistols? What about semi-auto shotguns?

 

Semi-auto hunting guns are not the problem here. Hunting guns are not the problem either. CQB rifles, man killers with thirty round plus magazines are. Pistols with 17 to 30 (!) round magazines are.

You can kill someone with a semi-auto hunting rifle, sure. You can kill people with a paring knife, a pencil, or a rock, too. You won't be killing fifty or sixty people and wounding five hundred more with them though.

 

No criminal record.

 

We've been trying compromise for decades and it's gotten us this. It's win or lose now.

 

Once again, the arithmetic. Back in the '80s, surveys showed half of American households had guns. Now, it's a third. But the AVERAGE gun owner has eight. As one might expect,80 percent of owners are men. We are letting an obviously disturbed minority of our population pose a threat to the rest of us. Unsustainable. Dick's right. Eventually we'll have a day where like Wayne LaPierre and five or six gun company CEOs and Republican congresspeople are shot to death in a concerted terrorist action by people driven around the bend by the insanity of others. That's the sad way of how this goes, says the guy who lived through the '60s. If it was me as President, I'd simply say, the following weapons are banned as a matter of national security. The following gun companies are nationalized for same. Fuck the Supreme Court, this is martial law. Those who resist violently will die. Good night, my fellow Americans.

 

At this point, have to agree. Gun lobby has had its chance.
Interesting point I saw in a West Wing show, and I wish I could remember the season. Someone challenged a liberal who was railing against gun control to do this: There are 5 million members of the NRA. Get 6 million libs or more to join. (They're out there. ... hell, Hillary got 65 million votes). It's $140 bucks for five years. Then take control of the board of directors, shut down the lobbying and cave to any bill banning assault weapons, speed loaders, cop-killer bullets, silencers, etc.
Is this that dumb an idea?

 

White guys who don’t wear glasses are to blame

 

Actually, it's not. And in the Internet-funding era, a hell of a lot easier to do than it was back in the days of West Wing.