People are still getting arrested for pot, as dumb as that is.

Come on, GOP, you’re almost there. If a med card shouldn’t get in the way of owning a gun, make the next tiny leap and legalize it recreationally. Raise more tax money and reduce crime and the prison population!

Yes! If your gun is stolen out of your glovebox or dresser drawer or any other insecure location! Safes and trigger locks should be a standard expectation for storage!

The ATF should be allowed to computerize records to make it easier to trace illegal guns back to the last legal owner. That would be a game changer.

That can go both ways, too. I remember being a broke ass college student and tipping a Dennys waitress some crazy amount (like rounding up our $15 to $50) and seeing how much the server appreciated it made me feel happier. It’s been many many years and I still remember how little it cost me to make someone else happy.

Well, they can talk to the cops who won’t protect them, won’t close their murder case when they get killed in retaliation, and have probably harassed them or someone they know, or they can keep quiet and live. It’s not difficult math to figure out why the cops don’t get cooperation. All of that treating citizens as the enemy and stop and frisk turns out to have some blowback.

Also, let’s not forget, dude, that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for, you know, domestic, within the city, that ain’t legal either.

The thing that always gets me about what you said is that those guns didn’t just appear out of midair, someone legally bought them and possessed them before the teens did. We need much better tools for pursuing straw buyers or sellers (presumably mostly private and not FFLs) who sell guns to teens and people who’d fail a background check. That should be the highest priority law enforcement action for reducing gun violence.

If a dog is leashed but the owner can’t control the leashed dog, is the dog effectively leashed? I would argue no.

If you’re biking on the sidewalk, you’re a dick. It’s not enforced because no traffic rules are but you can get ticketed for riding on the sidewalk.

Corn star for porn star for only fans? Not 🦴🦵🍮? So disappointed in people.

Could be worse. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nC8DIWFBwkI

From reading other news sources, he sold the guns to an FBI informant after the shooting. The FBI did ballistics testing after they bought them and found that they were the guns from the high school shooting. It’s not clear how he got them, but presumably he got them illegally. There was never an announcement about recovering the guns, and due to the nature of the crime the city has been vocal about every bit of positive news in the case. That makes me think he got them on the street rather than stealing them from an evidence locker as some have speculated.

If he’s selling guns no questions asked to people he knows aren’t allowed to own firearms, I think whether or not he sells someone a gun that they will use in a murder isn’t a question of if but when.

I’m all for ranked choice, but getting rid of the appeal to emotion is not one of the benefits. It’s just easier to tear down your opponent with some fearmongering than it is to make a cogent and articulate policy argument in a 30 second tv spot. And with even shorter ads on YouTube, it’s just getting worse.

That would actually be a refreshing change from the scare tactic ads that go for the quick emotional reaction but are total bs.

If there’s a baseball riot (really? Over baseball?), they’ll get to crack some heads, beat up some kids. Of course PPD wants to do their jobs now.

Oooooo! I’m picturing them as looking like Macho Man Randy Savage but only in sparkly red white and blue and turned up to 11, with the manager like the sleaziest snake oil salesman you can imagine.

General Flynn and Team America is a terrible band name.

I wonder if that includes Dudeist preachers, ordained ministers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or pastors of the Universal Life Church?