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The lib’s will be coming for your guns next.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... d-SIX.html

I misread Richneck school as Redneck...

If six year-olds could carry arms, this would never have happened.

davidjay wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:44 pm If six year-olds could carry arms, this would never have happened.

I've already seen , what appears to be a serious tweet, suggesting that, if his classmates had all been carrying, he'd never have dared shoot his teacher.

"Moar guns!! Sorry, what was the question?"

Oboogie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 7:19 pm

davidjay wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:44 pm If six year-olds could carry arms, this would never have happened.

I've already seen , what appears to be a serious tweet, suggesting that, if his classmates had all been carrying, he'd never have dared shoot his teacher.

"Moar guns!! Sorry, what was the question?"

I saw that as well. In fact I think there were a couple like it.

Even high end lawyers correctly see no point in engaging with MAGA loons in a grownup professional manner. Had a Brexiter who refused to name any tangible benefits of Brexit because tangible has different meanings. That’s what happens when to try to engage with these people on an adult level.

Some folks are utterly desperate in wanting to feel oppressed...

RNC loses complaint claiming Gmail spam filter is biased against Republicans

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has rejected a Republican National Committee (RNC) complaint claiming that Google violated US law by using Gmail's spam filter on Republican campaign emails. Republicans had claimed Gmail's spam filtering amounted to "illegal in-kind contributions made by Google to Biden For President and other Democrat candidates."

But an FEC decision last week, which Google provided to Ars today, said the commission found "no reason to believe" that Google made prohibited in-kind corporate contributions. The FEC, an independent agency of the US government, also found no evidence that the Biden for President campaign committee knowingly accepted illegal in-kind contributions in the form of spam filtering preference.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... publicans/

Meanwhile at the Capitol...

Hey, Yanks! Tell us again how you've got the greatest country on earth.


The BBC only has a limited number of articles (20 today) on the US and Canada page of their website. Ten percent of those involve illegal gun use.

A man armed with three guns fatally shot his ex-wife and five others during a rampage in a small rural town in the US state of Mississippi, police say.

The victims were killed at several locations, including a store and two homes, in Arkabutla, a community of fewer than 300 people.

Police have charged a 52-year-old local man with first-degree murder and held him at the county jail.

No motive for his attack has yet been identified.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64684350

We are 51 days into the year and this is the 73rd mass shooting in the US.

Friday's incident marks the 73rd mass shooting since the year began, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) non-profit research database.

GVA defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed.

Dog alone knows how many shootings with fewer than four victims there have been so far.

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The mother of a six-year-old boy has been arrested after he brought a gun to his primary school in Virginia - the latest such incident in the US state.

Police were called to Little Creek Elementary School in the city of Norfolk on Thursday afternoon, where staff gave them the handgun.

No-one was injured, but one mother says the boy threatened to shoot her daughter in class.

Last month another six-year-old shot and wounded his teacher in the state.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64685367

Was he a "good guy"? He didn't kill anyone. No need for the NRA to send "thoughts and prayers" to this one.



It could be argued that the USA is a country the size of a continent, and such things are not really that frequent for a country that size. But, this is bollocks. The population of Europe, a continent the size of a continent, is 117 million higher than the USA, and so far there have been two - one in London and one in Portugal. A possible reason is that Europeans are grown-ups who fully understand the need for gun control and endorse it's imposition and enforcement.

To address the "Goodness knows how many incidents with fewer than four fatalities"
America averages 14,000 gun deaths per year, about twice as many injuries.
That's about 40 deaths per day.

My Impression (gained almost entirely through online news and social media) is a nation on an increasingly polarised trajectory.
It's reached the point where any attempt by government to manage the country is opposed as tyranny by one group or other.
Not just Amendments 1 and 2, but almost anything.

The polarisation isn’t as strong as it sometimes looks. Republicans run for Congress (where they need to) as bipartisan local champions, even if their voting record suggests otherwise. They don’t necessarily run as Trumpers.

This is disgusting, even by the very low standards of the Repug Party.

A politician in Alaska's state house who suggested children dying from abuse could be good for public finances, has been censured by his colleagues.

David Eastman, a Republican member of the Alaskan House of Representatives, made the suggestion during a session about child abuse in the state on Monday.

Expert witnesses were testifying about the long-term harm child abuse has to the economy, to the workforce and to taxpayers, when children who face abuse, and the adults they grow up to be, rely on the government.

Mr Eastman, according to US media, during the questioning focused on what the "benefit" of child abuse might be.

He asked one expert: "How would you respond to the argument that I have heard on occasion where, in the case where child abuse is fatal, obviously it's not good for the child, but it's actually a benefit to society because there aren't needs for government services and whatnot over the whole course of that child's life?"

The expert witness, Trevor Storrs, the Alaska Children's Trust chief asked Mr Eastman to repeat his question, adding: "Did you say, 'a benefit for society?'"

The Republican doubled down, responding: "Talking dollars... [it] gets argued periodically that it's actually a cost-saving because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment."...

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/alaskan- ... g-12817693

I have no words.

Yug wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 11:19 am This is disgusting, even by the very low standards of the Repug Party.

A politician in Alaska's state house who suggested children dying from abuse could be good for public finances, has been censured by his colleagues.

David Eastman, a Republican member of the Alaskan House of Representatives, made the suggestion during a session about child abuse in the state on Monday.

Expert witnesses were testifying about the long-term harm child abuse has to the economy, to the workforce and to taxpayers, when children who face abuse, and the adults they grow up to be, rely on the government.

Mr Eastman, according to US media, during the questioning focused on what the "benefit" of child abuse might be.

He asked one expert: "How would you respond to the argument that I have heard on occasion where, in the case where child abuse is fatal, obviously it's not good for the child, but it's actually a benefit to society because there aren't needs for government services and whatnot over the whole course of that child's life?"

The expert witness, Trevor Storrs, the Alaska Children's Trust chief asked Mr Eastman to repeat his question, adding: "Did you say, 'a benefit for society?'"

The Republican doubled down, responding: "Talking dollars... [it] gets argued periodically that it's actually a cost-saving because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment."...

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/alaskan- ... g-12817693

I have no words.

I've two words that show how infected we've become, on this side of the Atlantic:

Jonathan Gullis.

Cartoon on Marjorie Taylor Green's big idea of a national divorce

While it's 'murica only, those on this side of the Atlantic whom think the same way as pub bore Lee and think culture wars crap are a good idea to primarily fight on for the next election could be in for a shock...

A GOP war on 'woke'? Most Americans view the term as a positive, USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds
By 56%-39%, Americans say 'woke' means being aware of social injustice, not being overly politically correct.

Republican presidential hopefuls are vowing to wage a war on "woke," but a new USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds a majority of Americans are inclined to see the word as a positive attribute, not a negative one.

Fifty-six percent of those surveyed say the term means "to be informed, educated on, and aware of social injustices." That includes not only three-fourths of Democrats but also more than a third of Republicans.

Overall, 39% say instead that the word reflects what has become the GOP political definition, "to be overly politically correct and police others' words." That's the view of 56% of Republicans.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/poli ... 417394002/

I suspect it might be more about shoring up what votes they can, rather than face electoral wipeout.

Talks with Nambia are off

Youngian wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 6:44 pm Talks with Nambia are off

Windhoek - an obvious spoof name. Tell em we're not interested.