Daily Beast columnist Megan McArdle has figured it out. The mass shooting problem. We don’t have to debate it anymore. In a long screed at the Daily Beast entitled “There’s Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre”, McArdle goes through all the proposals out there — banning certain guns, taxing or banning ammunition, greater checks on the mentally ill, etc. … Read More
The Ones You Don’t Hear About
It’s only dumb luck, rather than laws, that prevents more mass shootings: A day before a gunman in Oregon killed eight classmates and his college writing teacher, Tuolumne County sheriff’s detectives foiled a plot by students to go on a shooting rampage at their high school near Yosemite National Park, authorities said. The Summerville Union High School students, all male, … Read More
The Clinton Gun Plan And The Mental Health Factor Of Gun Control
I was going to write a post about mental health and gun control, but I see that Hillary Clinton just came out with a plan, so I’m going to talk about that as well. First, the Clinton plan: Fight for comprehensive background checks. Advocate for comprehensive federal background check legislation. Close the “Charleston Loophole.” Tighten the gun show and Internet … Read More
Eh, What Are You Gonna Do?
The callousness of Jeb Bush is appalling. Here’s that American can-do spirit: It’s interesting. Maybe we should have students attend school in wombs — then the GOP might care if they die. Because only deaths inside women matter to these people.
Shorter Ramesh Ponnuru
Shorter Ramesh Ponnuru (ex-convict at National Review Online): “Okay, I admit that the alarming amount of guns is responsible for all these mass shootings. Why can’t the left admit that dead American kids are a small price to pay for the civil liberties of gun owners?”
Mass Shooting Obama Response Montage
AFTERTHOUGHT: What I liked about Obama’s response speech this time was this: And I would particularly ask America’s gun owners — who are using those guns properly, safely, to hunt, for sport, for protecting their families — to think about whether your views are properly being represented by the organization that suggests it’s speaking for you. What Obama seems to want … Read More
Four Bullshit Pro-Gun Arguments
1. “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” Catchy. But bullshit. A murderer without a gun has a pretty hard time committing mass murder, unless he uses a grenade or bomb or something. And most people don’t have access and/or the technical know-how to use those. To really rack up those mind-blowing death counts – to make sure that many … Read More
Oregon Mass Shooting
As my tweets suggested yesterday, there was yet another mass shooting yesterday — this one at Umpqua Community College (“UCC”) in Oregon. Nine killed, not including the shooter, and seven injured. I will not name the killer. In these circumstances, I often do name the killer, but one of the things that has come out is he wrote on his blog, … Read More
“Happy Birthday” Now In Public Domain
Finally: A judge grants summary judgment to a filmmaker challenging Warner/Chappell’s copyright to a song more than a century old. The world’s most popular English-language song is potentially free from copyright after a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that filmmakers challenging Warner/Chappell Music’s hold on “Happy Birthday to You” should be granted summary judgment. According to the opinion on Tuesday … Read More
Sexual Violence On Campus — Worse Than We Thought
One of the largest-ever surveys on campus sexual violence was conducted recently by the Association of American Universities. More than 150,000 students across 27 colleges were surveyed, The results, released Monday, are terrible. The survey asked students whether they had experienced events ranging from sexual touching to forcible penetration. If they answered affirmatively, they were asked follow-up questions about the circumstances and the event’s … Read More
What If They Overthrew Texas And Nobody Came?
Hey! Remember Jade Helm 15? The U.S. Military operation this past summer that was supposed to overthrow the state of Texas and was somehow supposed to keep Obama in office for a third term that 1/3 of all Republicans and 1/2 of all Tea Party members believed to be an actual thing? Yeah… good times.
The Back End Of The Kentucky Court Clerk
It looks like Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis doesn’t want to go back to jail after all. Kim Davis, the embattled Kentucky county clerk, at the center of the dispute over gay marriage and religious liberty, appeared to back down from the threat of more jail time Monday, saying while she still refuses to authorize marriage licenses, she will not … Read More
But Did She Have A Conceal Carry Permit?
The first paragraph is all you need to know: A 31-year-old woman was arrested by Waco, Texas police late Monday night with about 30 grams of methamphetamine in her purse and a fully loaded handgun, with a round chambered, in her vagina, according to a local television report.
Hillary Clinton Apologizes For…. Something
ABC News: Hillary Clinton on Tuesday told ABC News’ David Muir that using a personal email account while Secretary of State was a “mistake” and that she is “sorry” for it. “I do think I could have and should have done a better job answering questions earlier. I really didn’t perhaps appreciate the need to do that,” the democratic presidential … Read More
Breaking: Kim Davis Released
Details coming. UPDATE – 1:00 pm: The contempt order was lifted by a US district court judge. Unclear if it was the same judge who gave the contempt order or if it was lifted on appeal. UPDATE – 1:15 pm: It was the same judge: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Kentucky clerk who has refused to issue marriage … Read More