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Seth Abramson
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So much of what's crappy about these debates comes from candidates' mistaken belief that at *this* point in the process what Americans want to hear is why they think their *competitors'* ideas are wrong, when I'd be perfectly happy to just hear everyone describe their *own plan*.
Don't get me wrong, the debate's moderators can then be used to challenge individual plans, but I do not need to hear the *candidates* develop detailed rhetorical attacks on one another's ideas at *this* point in the process. Maybe that's just me, but it's where I'm at right now.
Every time I see a Democratic candidate spar with another candidate in a negative rather than constructive way, I'm sorry but *at this point in the process* it makes me like *both* those candidates *less*. That's not the result these debates are supposed to create, I don't think.
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This *oaf* offers the following prescription, in light of the U.S. having had *251* mass shootings this year while the UK has had *zero*:

1) Get the mentally ill off their meds;
2) force women to stay at home; and
3) make children pray to Christ whether they're Christian or not.
1/ Every time the NRA comes in for criticism after a mass shooting it's because *the NRA is what distinguishes America from countries with no mass shootings*. It's not that (say) the UK handles mental illness differently, or has more stay-at-home moms, or has religion in schools.
2/ Any person who offers a diagnosis for why the U.S. has had 251 mass shootings this year but *doesn't*, in so doing, explain why countries identical to us in nearly every respect culture-wise have had *zero* mass shootings in 2019 needs to go right to Hell without passing Go.
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I hadn't realized until today that concealed-carry laws can create mayhem during mass shootings in a way that has nothing to do with crossfire: bystanders will report anyone brandishing a gun as a possible shooter—meaning first responders have no idea how many suspects there are.
Ask a first responder if s/he would rather come upon the scene of a mass shooting with twenty possible shooters—giving rise to maybe 40 to 60 divergent descriptions from bystanders—or just one shooter with a generally agreed-upon description, I don't think there'd be much debate.
I'm wondering if there's *any* first responder or criminal investigator in America who would say that more guns and possible suspects at a crime scene is better than fewer. Indeed—I bet they'd say the danger to innocents rises *exponentially* with each additional weapon on-scene.
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Seems to me Beto beating Trump by 12 points in Texas is one of the biggest pieces of 2020 news in a while. If Beto can put Texas in play to terrorize the GOP in 2020 the Dems have no choice but to find some way (POTUS, VPOTUS, assured cabinet member) to keep him near to the fold.
1/ The Beto-Trump Texas poll also propels Beto into 2020 relevance no matter where his polls sit now, because he's instantly become one of a small number of (at a minimum) top VP picks in this field. And the VP pick almost *has* to come from this giant, talented Democratic field.
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