Shooting at Las Vegas casino

You said it first and then you doubled down. You spiked the football while the bodies were still strewn across the Strip: YF should issue a correction, ha ha ha.

Now you're the high road guy?

 

I understand why one might think it's a pretty semantic conversation, but from a policy-making standpoint, the distinction is enormously important.

We are largely a collection of liberals who don't know how to talk about guns - it's like when newsies try to talk about sports. Think about how quickly you tune them out.

It's not a badge of honor, and it's unhelpful in the big picture. Liberals need to learn to speak the gun rights' people's language, not continue to act above it because they find it tedious.

 

I'm glad that the board's paragon of temperance is monitoring the discussion. After all, its been a good seven or eight days since he has completely flown of the handle here.

 

Meow.

 

Do you want to talk about the news or do you want to take potshots at other posters?

The only one flying off the handle here has been you. It might be a controlled burn. But make no mistake you've been flying off the handle.

 

It's great to have that exact semantic conversation while people are still bleeding out on the parking lot. YF nailed it. Kudos.

 

Of all the things you get bothered about, it seems odd that you bring this up.

The why-don't-you-guys-admit-I-was-right attitude is particularly irritating in the wake of an event like this, and when some of us (me!) all along said it was automatic gunfire, which it was.

 

YF didn't start it. Poin started taking shots at him, unprovoked. Not because YF was wrong. Because he was right.

 

Can we please get back to the issue at hand: controlling the feral hog population?

 

It's not an "exact semantic conversation." It's a distinction with enormous policy and Constitutional implications and future lives hang in the balance.

 

Maybe it’s just time to move beyond facts.

Whether it's so-called experts wildly misrepresenting the function and purpose of certain firearms accessories, reporters wildly misrepresenting recent gun-policy changes, or broadcasters outright advocating for new gun-control measures, it was not a banner day for journalism. Things got to the point where a reporter from an ostensibly objective, major-media outlet publicly advocated journalists move beyond mere "facts," which he scare-quoted for effect, and into open advocacy. "Been a journo for a while now," Cal Perry of NBC News tweeted. "It has become impossible to report just, ‘facts' about gun violence. The fact is America needs gun control."

 

And there it is.