Elementary school shooting gun control pissing contest

[CountDeMoney]

and Obama makes the safe play.

And certain GOP congressmen are already talking about impeachment over it anyway.

[garbon]

[CountDeMoney]

Banana clip.. really. You anti-gun nutters really, at least, need to do some reading. Ignorant.

ITS A BANANA MAGAZINE DAMMIT

[derspiess]

and Obama makes the safe play.

And certain GOP congressmen are already talking about impeachment over it anyway.

They were talking about it yesterday and a few days before when there was some hysteria about him possibly overreaching his authority via executive order.  That was a silly notion then and if they're still talking impeachment it's even sillier now that he's confirmed what his executive orders are.

[11B4V]

and Obama makes the safe play.

And certain GOP congressmen are already talking about impeachment over it anyway.

Tea Baggers.

[Neil]

The fact that the right defines the ACLU as left leaning speaks to just how much they really give a shit about actual liberty.

What a silly thing to say.

[CountDeMoney]

They were talking about it yesterday and a few days before when there was some hysteria about him possibly overreaching his authority via executive order.  That was a silly notion then and if they're still talking impeachment it's even sillier now that he's confirmed what his executive orders are.

Considering the White House released pretty much everything they were going to debut today as late as Friday to the media, the GOPtards were not really working off anything this weekend they didn't already know about.  So crazy is still fucking crazy.

[Neil]

So odd. Makes it seem like we're just itching for gun violence every day in our schools

I like the insinuation that since the President's children require Secret Service protection--who by their very existence possess a specific and existential criminal, political and terrorist threat dynamic--that he somehow doesn't give a shit about anybody else's kids. 

The White House was right with this one:  Repugnant and cowardly.  That's the heart of the NRA.

[Neil]

I forgot to ejaculate into a 30 round magazine.

Forgot? I bet your banana clip was too curved to feed the rounds properly.

Banana clip.. really. You anti-gun nutters really, at least, need to do some reading. Ignorant. MAGAZINE you twit.

And yet you knew exactly what he meant, as would anyone participating in the conversation.  The purpose of language is to convey meaning, and the difference isn't as important as you're pretending it is.

[MadImmortalMan]

Some dude wrote a piece on HuffPo a couple months ago where he advocated banning "high-magazine clips". 

[The Minsky Moment]

Incorrect.  Weimar gun control was strict until 1928, when it was loosened up a bit.  Then in the Nazi era it was a mixed bag-- it was slackened in some respects but made more strict in others.  If you were a Nazi party member you faced practically no restrictions.  At the other end of the spectrum Jews were totally forbidden from owning guns.  If neither of these applied to you, you had to positively demonstrate your trustworthiness and need for a firearm.

you are confusing racial/political discriminatory laws with gun control.  Lots of civic prohibitions were ultimately placed on Jews and other "undesirables" such as positions in the civil service or universities, rights to acquire real property etc.  The gun restrictions were just part and parcel.

[Neil]

Some dude wrote a piece on HuffPo a couple months ago where he advocated banning "high-magazine clips". 

11B would have had a heart attack.  Or possibly gone on a rage-induced spree-shooting.

[The Minsky Moment]

And certain GOP congressmen are already talking about impeachment over it anyway.

Item No 23 does come close to an impeachable offense.

[The Minsky Moment]

One of the assumptions there is about dictatorships is that they are always unpopular and only hold on to power through brutality.  I don't think this is true.  In fact, a well armed citizenry may very well preserve a popular form of oppression.

On the flip side - the country with the lowest recorded level of private gun ownership was Tunisia just before the green revolution (and since).  The fact that Tunisia's revolt has been by far the most successful and positive is probably coincidental.

On the other end of the spectrum, Yemen's very high level of gun ownership has worked out just dandy for them . . .

[The Brain]

Arabs don't kill people.