Thirteen dead in Washington, DC Navy Yard shooting.

Some of the dead were the much-vaunted good guys with guns: the security guards.

Maybe now we can have a discussion about reasonable gun control ( Read more... )

Horrible. When the hell is this going to end?

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Breaking news this morning: Five dead in Illinois shooting.

ENOUGH!

Enough with the goddamn guns.

Enough enough enough.

I haven't even had my fucking Egg McMuffin yet, and a half-dozen people have been shot.

Y'know what, gun-rights-über-alles folks? You're correct. Guns don't kill people. PEOPLE WITH GUNS KILL PEOPLE. A lot more easily ( Read more... )

Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX) has a new Official campaign bumper sticker: If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted.
I don't even know what to say to that. I just don't.

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( RKBA folks, you may not like this post. Fair warning.... )

I haven't been having the best day.

• First, of course, came the NRA's repugnant ad (and their remarkable bullshit response to everyone's disgust).
• I'm waiting for a callback from a U-M clinic (no big, about a procedure I'll have next month).
• I'm trying to wrestle with writing some, y'know, music.
• A woman who was my housemate back in the late 80s passed ( Read more... )

At least 27 dead, including at least 18 children, in Connecticut elementary school shootingPeace and condolences and whatever cold comfort may be taken by the families of the dead and wounded ( Read more... )

Possibly eight -- the police say the suspect was "put down", and he was for sure shot. Utterly horrible, and condolences to the friends and families of the victims ( Read more... )