The F*cking Gun Control Thread

[mte]

My overall opinion is that status quo is surely a death sentence for our culture. Conservative status quo seems to be morphing into (a potentially) Dominionist dystopia while liberal status quo seems to be guaranteed prostration to pretty much anything that happens.

see, i think this is where you run up against some resistance around here. i won't speak for any other blabbers, but i know that i DO NOT WANT a revolution. modern liberal democracy may not be a utopia, but it's still the option i prefer. the american experiment is just that—it's a social compact among hundreds of millions of people over more than 200 years that's always changing. there's lots of policy i disagree with, lots of it that flummoxes, confounds, or outrages me, but the system that we have, as flawed as it might be, is the best way i know of for us to live together.

this isn't an excuse for the violence and hate that are a big part of our shared legacy. it's an acknowledgment of who and what we are, and all the good and bad that entails. until something demonstrably better comes along, i'll stick with liberal democracy.

[earlnemo]

see, i think this is where you run up against some resistance around here. i won't speak for any other blabbers, but i know that i DO NOT WANT a revolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6aHlN3wKI (I can't get the new insert video thing to work)

[Raincrow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6aHlN3wKI (I can't get the new insert video thing to work)

Can you just jot down the bullet points?

[binR Bishop]

Paul Simon, a family friend, sang this at teacher Vicki Soto's funeral today.

[Hayduke]

From the Twitterverse:

Tbogg @

Only Glenn Reynolds would start off an op-ed against gun control by quoting a guy who shot his wife while drunk usat.ly/VH3JwR

[toby]

From the Twitterverse:

Hes just joking and would like to buy you a beer. So, how many people are following Mark's lead and abandoning DTGB?

[Hayduke]

Hes just joking and would like to buy you a beer. So, how many people are following Mark's lead and abandoning DTGB?

Mark's 'lead' doesn't count until he brings his butt back from Rome and actually has to go out drinking in this town. Suttree's was tied up with some kind of dinner, so a pretty good crowd on the DTGB patio.

[mte]

yeah, i got the e-mail re DTGB, but it wasn't exactly chock full of information. does anybody have details about the bar and guns and a boycott?

[SnM]

yeah, i got the e-mail re DTGB, but it wasn't exactly chock full of information. does anybody have details about the bar and guns and a boycott?

He sent another email retracting his initial email.

[ernie]

Ernie, put me in the "We need more love" camp. I want to live in your world. Not the real one.

Maybe you should move to New York. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/op...uare.html?_r=0