Dicks Sporting Goods will stop selling assault rifles and will also stop selling guns to 21 year-olds. Apparently they did the same thing after Sandy Hook, and then started again, but I’m sure some smart and motivated teenagers will keep an eye on them this time.
But how the hell will they know which guns are assault rifles? As Marco Rubio flop-sweatedly explained at the CNN Town Hall last week, it’s just unpossible for mere mortals to identify which guns are assault rifles and which are not. Legislation that complex simply cannot be written without the help of Gandalf, Albus Dumbledore and Black Panther.
That said, be sure that you don’t make fun of Marco, because he has very delicate fee-fees and he might have to take a nap in a quiet room if things get too heated:
The debate after #Parkland reminds us We The People don’t really like each other very much.We smear those who refuse to agree with us.We claim a Judea-Christian heritage but celebrate arrogance & boasting. & worst of all we have infected the next generation with the same disease
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 28, 2018
Just imagine if this pampered wimp had to face some real adversity instead of a few burns on social media.
Amir Khalid
We’ll see if Dick’s Sporting Goods really mean it this time about not selling marco rubios anymore.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Is Marco talking about Drumpf?
and Drumpf Jr?
The Moar You Know
Huh. First thing Rubio has ever said that I agree with. Although unlike him, I would cite Rubios existence as a huge part of the problem.
Nicole
I’m sorry, has he read the Bible? The Judeo-Christian heritage is full of people smearing each other for belonging to the wrong group and being petty. Hell, if God had just shown some manners said, “Thank you very much” to Cain and then simply regifted, think of all the violence that could have been avoided.
Matt McIrvin
You shoot just a few of them and the rest get all rude and disrespectful.
matt
Rubio sounds sad that people no longer are settling for politely disagreeing with him while he does what they don’t want.
geg6
Oh my, the whining of Little Marco! Oooooo, teenagers who survived a massacre were mean to me on the internet! I AM BEING OPPRESSED!
msdc
Translation: “I just got owned by a bunch of high school students on national TV.”
bobbo
Also too, please no swears people
debit
@geg6: Maybe he could run to the comforting arms of Erik Erikson, who called David Hogg a bully.
JPL
@geg6: Marco is part of the problem, but yet he wants to preach to us.
JGabriel
Marco Rubio:
No, Marco, it’s a reminder that people don’t like enablers of mass murderers. If you got any other meaning out of it, you wildly missed the point.
donnah
We the People are tired of being shot at, Marco.
randy khan
“It’s just too hard to tell what’s an assault weapon” seems to be the new talking point, at least based on my personal Facebook troll, who appears to have the talking points beamed into his head. When I pointed out that you could define what’s permitted and not permitted by using objective criteria like how fast you can shoot bullets, how many a gun can shoot before reloading, and the velocity of the bullets, he moved on to listing the guns he owns, as if that proves anything.
Matt McIrvin
These guys are all going to end up like Berlusconi, flouncing offstage carping about how the US is a shitty country that makes them sick.
cleek
We claim a Judea-Christian heritage
how about you don’t tell other people what they claim, fucko?
yam
No, Marco. We just don’t like YOU.
Matt McIrvin
@randy khan: They dredged it up from the complaints about the 1994 ban, which defined “assault weapon” in a complicated and arbitrary manner. But it’s not as if we couldn’t do better. It’d just likely be a stricter ban.
It’s of a piece with the attacks on the ACA and on social programs: first you push back as hard as you can and chip away at the edges to produce a weirdly compromised product, then you complain that the whole thing needs to be scrapped because the boundaries of it are illogical and perverse.
Shalimar
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: He must follow all the Trumps on twitter.
cleek
@randy khan:
here’s an easy way to tell:
does that rifle have a pistol grip, a top handle, and a hollowed-out stock? it’s an “assault rifle”. all of that stuff makes it better at the job of killing, under tough conditions, people who might fight back. that’s why all of the Army’s weapons are styled that way.
traditional hunting rifle with a wood stock, no pistol grip, no handle on top? that’s not an assault rifle. they’re fine for killing deer, but they’re a little awkward if you’re shooting then running for cover.
JPL
Marco is a sanctimonious ……… !
Frankensteinbeck
I admit, you describe Republicans well, Rubio.
Matt McIrvin
@cleek: I’ve read a million complaints from Gun People that the ’94 ban allowed guns like that that were just as rapid-fire as an AR-15. Those were “cosmetic” distinctions, completely illegitimate in a gun law apparently.
rikyrah
STFU Marco
cleek
@Matt McIrvin:
because they’re idiots.
if those things were simply cosmetic, militaries wouldn’t waste money adding them to the millions of weapons they purchase.
tell the Army to go back to M1s. see if they’re cool with it.
MJS
Assuming Marco includes himself in “We the people” can he explain who it is he “doesn’t like”? Given the context, it appears he doesn’t like school shooting survivors. Prefers they all die, I guess.
Gin & Tonic
Uh, correct me if I’m wrong, but Dick’s Sporting Goods, as a retailer, doesn’t need either simple or complex legislation to decide what to stock. They can make up their own minds. If their head sportswear buyer says “no, these socks are ugly”, then they don’t get stocked. Simple.If customers don’t like their decision, they can go elsewhere. If investors think it’s a bad idea, their stock will go down. Free market, bitches.
rikyrah
What humors me is that little Marco thinks his platitudes are gonna quiet the students who see him for the empty shell that he is.
Amir Khalid
@Nicole:
The Abrahamic deity wields His power in confusing and contradictory ways. He demands belief and obedience, yet has set up His creation so that there’s really no way to prove he even exists. He predetermines all the choices we mortals make, and then judges us on them. He is provoked to great anger at the pettiest of slights, like humans not worshipping Him, yet overlooks horrific crimes by those He favours.
It strikes me that the Bronze Age concept of an almighty deity wasn’t really that well thought through. There’s a lot in Abrahamic scripture that wouldn’t stand up to modern scrutiny.
rikyrah
TEE HEE HEE
I spoke to a source I hadn’t spoken with in months. We’d had a bit of a falling out. Not bad-I mean they did pick up the phone-so they kind of quipped, “you’ve got one question”….what would you ask? Anyway, I asked “Did Gates deliver Trump”. They said, “yes” and hung up.
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) February 27, 2018
eric
a few points
first, two words: “chosen people” See Bible, Hebrew.
second: “He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork.” See Bible, Christian.
third: so he is throwing shade on people that people that gently called him out for truthfully noting his response was shallow and stupid after the speaker survived a killing spree? Just shut up and take it.
rikyrah
These rotten, evil azz muthaphuckas.
GOLDMAN SACHS: There’s an attractive way to profit from the $1.3 trillion student-loan bubble
Akin Oyedele
Dec. 9, 2017, 7:05 AM
The $1.3 trillion student-loan market is a “bubble,” Goldman Sachs strategists said in a recent note.
The banks believes the market for asset-backed securities refinanced by private lenders like SoFi “may offer relative value” compared to public student-loan securities.
Asset-backed securities bundle pools of loans with similar risks that investors can profit from when former students make their payments.
Although student loans are in a bubble, Goldman doesn’t see them as a risk to overall financial stability.
MomSense
We the people are tired of sacrificing our children so the NRA will keep filling your campaign coffers, Marco Rubio.
rikyrah
UH HUH
UH HUH
Company with DeVos ties awarded Education Dept debt-collection contract: report
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN – 01/13/18 07:09 PM EST
The Education Department has awarded a contract to a company with financial ties to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, The Washington Post reports.
Performant Financial Corp. is one of two companies selected by the Education Department to help the department collect overdue student loans. Windham Professionals also secured a contract.
DeVos invested in a firm tied to Performant before she was named Education Secretary and was required to divest from that company within 90 days of her confirmation.
An Education Department spokesman told The Post that DeVos had “no knowledge, let alone involvement,” in the contract with Performant.
NotMax
Marco es un hombre pequeño y un pendejo muy grande.
Wapiti
@randy khan: California has a law that defines assault rifles by their characteristics, adding to laws that listed the known types of assault rifles. This law was put into place in 2000, and hasn’t been overturned by the USSC.
rikyrah
The point was made on MSNBC last night…
After yesterday, there doesn’t seem to be a way for
McMaster
Kelly
Kushner
to ALL be working at the White House.
That story last night explicitly saying that 4 countries ADMITTED that they were playing Kushner, because he was weak and vulnerable, makes it clear- HE IS A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY.
…………………………
Trump family blames Kelly for negative coverage of Kushner: report
BY JOHN BOWDEN – 02/28/18 08:49 AM EST
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Es verdad.
rikyrah
Nobody FrontPaged this?
Pence: Abortion will end in U.S. ‘in our time’
BY JESSIE HELLMANN – 02/27/18 02:56 PM EST
Vice President Pence predicted Tuesday that legal abortion would end in the U.S. “in our time.”
“I know in my heart of hearts this will be the generation that restores life in America,” Pence said at a luncheon in Nashville, Tenn., hosted by the Susan B. Anthony List & Life Institute, an anti-abortion organization.
“If all of us do all we can, we can once again, in our time, restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law.”
Pence has long championed anti-abortion policies, as a congressman, as the governor of Indiana and as vice president.
He told the crowd he has seen more progress in the Trump administration’s first year in office than he has in his entire life.
Since President Trump took office last year, he has signed legislation reversing an Obama-era rule that blocked states from defunding Planned Parenthood and reinstated a ban on federal funds for global health programs that cover or promote abortions.
Gin & Tonic
@rikyrah: Unfortunately, Claude is often a fabulist.
lollipopguild
@cleek: Anything with bolt action where you have to eject the cartridge after you shoot is a hunting rifle anything where you just keep pulling the trigger is an assault rifle.
rikyrah
News day inundated with Trump scandals
Rachel Maddow rounds up the overwhelming number of major news stories that broke over the course of the day, including the NSA director’s Senate testimony, the Trump 2020 campaign manager’s ties to a sketchy company, new contacts exposed between Roger Stone and WikiLeaks, and more White House departures.
Hoodie
@cleek: Here’s a few more: no ability to accept external magazines and a limit to capacity of internal magazines. Go even further: no gas operated loading. Maybe you catch some guns that wouldn’t be considered assault weapons, so what? Guns don’t have rights. There are plenty of shotguns, hunting rifles, revolvers, etc that would still be legal, thus satisfying any 2nd amendment bullshit. If you can’t defend your home with what’s left over, you need to move. How about an ATF approved guns list, kind of like FDA approval? That would provide a safe harbor for mfrs. Old guns grandfathered with restrictions on resale and a buy back program. Semiautomatic guns available at licensed private shooting clubs, with guns secured on premises. Sounds like a well-regulated militia to me. This is not hard.
rikyrah
Kushner eyed over foreign contacts, vulnerability to manipulation
Shane Harris, intelligence and national security reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting about concerns over Jared Kushner’s interactions with foreign officials and efforts to manipulate him.
rikyrah
Potential for blackmail an obstacle to Kushner security clearance
Nicolle Wallace, former White House communications director for George W. Bush, talks with Rachel Maddow about why Jared Kushner’s security situation in the Trump White House is not only unusual and politically awkward, but dangerous.
Chyron HR
@rikyrah:
Well, their story checks out.
rikyrah
Hotel in Panama fights to shed Trump name citing name’s stigma
David Fahrenthold, reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about the Trump hotel in Panama fighting to remove Donald Trump’s name, and the potential political implications if Trump tries tries to insert himself.
laura
@rikyrah: Let 10,000 Becky Bell’s bloom Mike Pence didn’t add.
rikyrah
Democrats flip seats in N.H., Connecticut special elections
Rachel Maddow reports on three state special elections, two of which, in New Hampshire and Connecticut, were formerly Republican-held and flipped by Democrats, and a third, in Kentucky, that was retained by Republicans but saw a 28 point Democratic swing versus Donald Trump’s 2016 victory in that district.
lollipopguild
@Hoodie: You make excellent and intelligent points which is why what you are saying will be ignored by the gun lovers.
rp
@cleek: McArdle argued a few years ago that the assault weapons ban was stupid because it focused on purely cosmetic issues. And her main example was the fact that shotguns with pistol grips were banned but traditional grips were fine. She said this as if it’s a truism that there’s no meaningful difference, but if that’s the case why do modern military rifles all have pistol grips?
EDIT: Oops, didn’t see your follow up post.
Matt McIrvin
@cleek: My response has always been “okay, let’s ban those guns too.”
Kay
Baud bait:
henrythefifth
@rikyrah: I’m sure DeVos divested herself.
Kay
@rikyrah:
They’re mad at her because she stopped putting events on her public schedule. It’s kind of amazing. She just stopped.
These people don’t give a shit. They’re not going to follow any rules at all unless they’re ordered to by a court. Even then, they may say fuck off. It’s so funny that conservatives laughed at “privilege”. This is EXACTLY what it looks like. They are exempt from the norms because they are so fucking fabulous and valuable.
Nicole
@Amir Khalid: I remember, senior year of high school, we were assigned The Book of Job in AP English. We had to write an essay about why God punished Job. I combed the text, tried to find reasons why, and did the best I could. I got a note back at the top of my essay, saying, “No one can understand why God does what God does.” I thought, “Well, that’s a bullshit way of looking at things,” and thus began my road to agnosticism. I’d say atheism except I don’t really care enough about the topic to take the time to form a definite opinion.
NOTE: My English teacher was not pushing religion; it really was given to us as a piece of historical literature. And viewing it through that lens meant no blind acceptance of what was there. Smart lady, my English teacher.
Immanentize
@cleek:
Right on!
JPL
@Gin & Tonic: True, but sometimes it’s okay to dream.
rm
Yeshua Fucking H. Christ on a pogo stick. Rubio is dogwhistling for the evangelicals, referencing 2 Timothy 3:1-4, “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy . . .” — it goes on, but the first two verses get what he was saying, that these boastful teens are disrespectful of their elders, which makes them Godless.
About the survivors of a mass school shooting. Holy fucking jesus shit.
(If you read the rest of verses 1-4, the whole quote is a remarkable good description of a Trumpite.)
The other thing that gobsmacks me is that Dick’s sells fucking assault rifles. I’ve never wandered into the huntin’ & fishin’ section, so I assumed they only sold hunting-type firearms. Fucking Hell. Jesus fucking crap.
The Moar You Know
@Amir Khalid: Can’t remember where I read it, but some said “if you take God at face value as described by His followers, then one is forced to the inescapable conclusion that God is a malign thug.”
Matt McIrvin
@Amir Khalid: When a lot of that was originally written, there wasn’t particularly any concept of God being omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. Some of the stories make more sense if you think of him as just another tribal deity, a cranky, powerful guy who arbitrarily plays favorites and doesn’t necessarily control the whole universe or know everything. He often does things for no good reason; humans sometimes push back and actually win arguments with him.
I get the impression that Jewish thought still insists much less on God’s absolute omniscience, omnipotence and omnibenevolence than Christian and Muslim thought does. Later thinkers really tie themselves into knots trying to reconcile all this stuff.
The Moar You Know
@Wapiti: We do. It’s not working. The manufacturers send stuff with parts bolted on that can be removed or defeated in less than a few seconds. I can go to my local gun shop and get an CA compliant AR-15, take it home ten days later (thank God this state has waiting periods) and with a few minutes work with a screwdriver I have a general-issue AR. Or even AK if I want to go that route. The “characteristics” thing is not working. We need a total semi-auto ban.
Hoodie, above, nails down precisely what is needed.
Leto
@lollipopguild: @Hoodie: These are logical points, mainly because gun manufacturers have moved towards making their weapons more militaristic: they’ve replaced the front stock with picatanny rails, as well as replaced the carrying handle with picatanny railing there too. How else are you going to be able to sell the gun related accessories of scopes, flashlights (torches for our UK compatriots), laser pointers, gummy bear pouches, water bottle holder, George Foreman grilling accessory, cell phone charger, gun nutz… I mean, how else can one expect to defend their castle if they don’t have gummy bears and laser pointers within immediate reach? Plus the perp will know I mean “srsz bizness” with my gun nutz. True story!
JanieM
@cleek:
What cleek said.
Besides the “Judea[sic]-Christian” shibboleth (mostly now used by people who wouldn’t know a Judeo-Christian if it punched them in the nose), “we” is the weaseliest word in the Weasel English dictionary. Other than an American citizen and homo sapiens, it’s unlikely there’s any “we” that includes Marco Rubio that I would want to be part of.
Boatboy_srq
@Matt McIrvin: They tried that (collectively) not so very long ago. It didn’t end well for them then.
Amir Khalid
@Leto:
I googled “gun nutz” and found only people who are nuts for guns. Were you referring to testicular adornments for firearms?
eric
@Nicole: He hits me because He loves me.
eric
@Matt McIrvin: remember Job has many offers, and the ending was almost certainly after later to soften the story’s blow
ETA” offers = authors
Brachiator
Baby Rubio at his most unctuous
Problem is, some of the next generation will not be with us because they were murdered and Rubio’s insistence on being a tool for the NRA keeps us away from reasonable solutions.
Amir Khalid
@Matt McIrvin:
In other words, God conceived of as Tony Soprano.
cleek
@Hoodie:
all excellent ideas.
But her emails!!!
@rm:
The bible verse is actually about Rubio, not the Parkland students. Even the part about being disobedient to the parents falls flat as there’s no evidence this is literally true (the parents support the students) or even true in a broader sense as protest, opposition to immoral authority and advancing the cause of life and liberty is as much an inheritance from our forefathers as the legacy of slavery, racism and sexism. Rubio is simply too boastful, proud and loves himself and money a bit too much to see it.
Betty Cracker
@Nicole:
Where shall we deliver the internets you won today?
randy khan
@Hoodie:
There definitely are lots of ways to get to where we need to be. I just like to pass along the new talking points when I hear them from my troll so we can point and laugh.
Barbara
@Brachiator: If an appeal to patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels like Nixon, then the last refuge for unprincipled hacks like Rubio is a plea for courtesy. Can’t we just be nicer to each other? Strangely, people who just survived a massacre that took a lot of their friends and teachers don’t feel like being nice to the people who take money in order to make sure people like Nikolas Cruz have exactly what they need to perpetrate mass slaughter. Gosh, how rude of them.
chris
@Hoodie:
Just no. AR-15s make the news but handguns probably kill more people.
Mnemosyne
@chris:
Gotta start somewhere. We’ll work our way down to the handguns.
Kay
@chris:
It’s a weird argument, though, isn’t it? Automobiles kill way more people than plane crashes but no one justifies not regulating airlines and pilots and planes because of that. This is the only “safety debate” where there’s a kind of acceptable casualty rate, or where one category of slaughter somehow justifies a smaller sub-category.
It gets crazy. That many more children drown in swimming pools doesn’t really have any connection to how many children are shot and killed at school.
The Moar You Know
@chris: It’s not even a contest. Handguns are responsible for about 85-90% of all firearms deaths.
A comprehensive ban on semi-autos won’t get rid of all handguns, but it would get rid of the “black rifles” and most of the handguns used in mass killings. I can’t think of one in the last few years where a revolver was used.
maya
How sad for Sen. Rubio. Let’s send him our thoughts and prayers.
chris
@Mnemosyne: @Kay: When I walk down the street in Canada I’m pretty sure that no one around me is carrying a gun. In the US I feel the opposite way and it’s unsettling to say the least. IMHO anything you can hide under a coat should be heavily restricted or outright banned.
J R in WV
@Matt McIrvin:
I beg to differ! None of the guys have what it takes to flounce!!! Maybe, maybe, Ivanka could pull it off with coaching. Jar-Jar, no way!
chris
@The Moar You Know: Yeah, OK, but keep in mind that a revolver meets the semiautomatic rule, it fires every time you pull the trigger. (Yes,yes, I know the difference between single and double action.) If all they have is revolvers…
gvg
reports are in NYTimes that Walmart is dropping assault weapons too.
rikyrah
Democracy is under attack from voter suppression, gerrymandering & dark money. I discussed with @deray on new @crookedmedia podhttps://t.co/Zo2emhxC0W
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) February 28, 2018
gvg
ok, editing not working, walmart story I referenced above is 2015 not now, sorry
JR
Jesus fucking Christ, where is Georges Danton when you need him.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
F your feeling Rubio with a rusty pitchfork. There is no room for measured, cool discourse when people’s lives are on the line.
MisterForkbeard
@The Moar You Know: What bugs me about this example (CA guns) is that my gunhumper friends regard the “5 minutes of work to get around the obvious intent of the law” as a huge concession rather than… bad faith on the part of the gun manufacturers
They use calls to fix the system as prove that “gun grabbers” will never stop coming for your guns, instead of recognizing that they’re part of the problem.
J R in WV
@The Moar You Know:
“one is forced to the inescapable conclusion that God is a malign thug.”
Worse than just malign thug, street gangs are malign thugs. More like supremely evil at the core, arbitrarily wicked at every opportunity. I could go on in that vein, but why?
Jesus is not fundamentally evil, but still sets a bar far too high for most people to pass, without providing points for how hard you try to meet the expectations.
lollipopguild
@The Moar You Know: The guy in the Vegas hotel needed an assault rifle(light machine gun) to do what he did. He could not have shot from his perch with a pistol or shotgun and create the same amount of carnage. Cops are going to be much more willing to take on someone with a pistol than someone with a light machine gun.
scav
So, no doubt, we will see Brave Sir Marco leading the way by formally disbanding and disowning all Young Rebublican Clubs?
Matt McIrvin
@Kay: Yeah… It’s true that mass shootings aren’t actually the biggest part of the American gun problem, but they’re easily into the realm of daily risks that we try to control with reasonable regulations. And assault-weapon bans simply aren’t unreasonable.
Gretchen
Marco Rubio, who insisted in a national debate that Barack Obama was knowingly and deliberately destroying America, laments our current lack of civility.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@The Moar You Know: I thought hand guns were the weapon of choice when killing family members and friends.
Aleta
“the debate after Parkland” ? Who does he hear debating, outside of the voice in his head? Congress doesn’t debate, the media doesn’t debate. Anyway, the debate is over.
Origuy
From what I read, the stores branded as Dick’s had already stopped selling the guns in question, but their Field and Stream subsidiary stores hadn’t.
TenguPhule
@Kay:
That’s what I’ve been saying for over a year now.
And its getting worse.
Leto
@Amir Khalid: Sorry, back from a meeting and lunch, but you are correct. I also wish that part was snark, but alas: Gunsticles! <–link
Also nothing says this is a penis replacement like adding a scrotum to it. Google images of it are both hilarious (in the point/mock category) and just sad. <–link
rm
@But her emails!!!: EXACTLY
Stan
I’m sorry but no, none of those things define an assault rifle in any useful way. AK47s, for example, do not have top handles or hollowed-out stocks and are the world’s most popular assault rifle by a very wide margin.
Stan
@<a
That’s true that they are largely cosmetic. They have some function, but they are not the things that really make it an assault weapon and they are easily swapped out parts. So an illegal gun can be made ‘legal’ with a screwdriver and a few minutes’ work. Yet the basic functionality of the weapon does not change just because you replace the stock.
it’s not that these distinctions are’illegitimate’ it is that they aren’t super useful and they are easily undermined.
Uncle Omar
How about getting rid of gas-operated recoil firearms. That leaves pump shotguns and rifles, bolt operated rifles, single shots of both, and revolvers. Let the military keep all of the heavy duty stuff.
Matt
Sorry, the only way Little Marco gets any positive credit for that sentiment is if it’s the sign-off for his suicide note. Fuck that guy and rest of the GOP.
Stan
@Hoodie: Very good idea. I like the FDA analogy.
Stan
@lollipopguild:
Those are two VERY different classes of weapon. If the vegas asshole had had a light machinegun and knew how to use it there would have been hundreds dead.
Stan
Let’s be honest here, AR15s kill suburban kids; mass school shootings are disproportionately suburban. Much more likely to be white and middle class.
Pistols kill a wider variety of people and one of my personal bits of angst the last few weeks is that it matters who gets killed. Thankfully there has never been a mass shooting where I live but I know damned well that if 10 suburban white kids get killed its going to ‘matter’ politically a whole lot more than twice or three times that number of black and latino kids getting killed in individual incidents.
So while we’re in this moment, which like everything else in America has a racial component, let’s ban all handguns too. They’re virtually never used to hunt.
jefft452
@Matt McIrvin: ‘Those were “cosmetic” distinctions’
I love when they use that argument
The thing is, even if it were true, its still a valid rationale
Car insurance charge teenage boys more if they drive a sports car
Why? You could drive recklessly in a mom-mobile too, but if a teen age boy chooses a car, based not on getting from point a to point b, but on “how cool will my friends think I look driving it” the odds of him being reckless goes way up
Likewise, if you choose a gun based on “how much of a badass will I look like while shooting it”, well, you are probably too irresponsible to own one
fuckwit
@The Moar You Know: sociopathic asshole. humans created him in our image