Sincerely, passionately, as a longtime possessor of firearms: require training to possess firearms
There are two kinds of people in this world: people with a for critically examining their own reflexive first crack at drawing a logical parallel it identify potential weaknesses, and John
A real disservice is done by using limited headline space on the fact that this perp is an Army vet, rather than the many more germane and remarkably horrific facts in this story. Let me share a few of them here: apnews.com/article/race-a…
He was wearing body armor and laden with ammunition for his pistol, but needed to "defend" himself. Against whom? Glad you asked...
Speaking as an armed citizen who observes all applicable laws, I would be very wary of going back to a workplace where my colleagues almost got me killed and subsequently insisted on being able to be armed in said workplace
We are moving ever closer toward the possibility of an incident between members of Congress that would make Brooks's caning of Sumner look like en elementary-school recess fight
Put another way: a gun-fetishizing member of Congress, who faces censure for disobeying the sergeant of arms and tweeting leadership's location during the siege, now makes a public show of circumventing security measures. Sounds like a flashing signal to extremist groups to me.
No person -- no politician, pundit, podcaster -- who surveys the events of the past days, weeks, years, and reacts by adopting the mantle of victimhood by lamenting the loss of Trump's social media or their followers, deserves any future role in deciding the course of this nation
The cavalcade of TV hosts, site owners, senators, administration officials, tweeting like they're waiting for a rail car to Treblinka because Twitter might deplatform them, is disgusting beyond any reasonable pale, and that culture of glossing over real inhumanity needs to end.
There are sitting members of Congress whose speeches have been flagged by the ADL; former governors who have defended the Confederate flag; and TV personalities who've reified white supremacy, trying to argue that the *real* fascists are deplatforming them. AFTER an insurrection.
Just an absolutely perplexing decision by Military dot com to publish a repellent apology for mass murder
"Sure he pled guilty and allocuted to going UA to kill all those people, mostly women and children, in their homes in the dead of night, but he insists they were bad dudes" is the sort of bad-faith jingoistic piffle that doesn't deserve a hearing in a reputable publication
Publishers face "both sides" pressure, as Mil dot com did when an astroturf group submitted this as a response to another column. One way to manage this is to publicly tell the "other" side their submission doesn't meet publication standards of facticity, good faith, and decency
Several former American diplomats to Ukraine hold Paul Manafort responsible for a siege against US Marines in Crimea by the pro-Russian partisans that employed him in 2006 -- a siege that undermined the Bush administration's relations with Ukraine. taskandpurpose.com/news/manafort-…
We spoke to several of those Marines back in 2016, when Manafort ran Trump's campaign. fusion.tv/story/338016/t…
I spoke with @maddow about Manafort's employ with the Party of Regions, the Kremlin-connected architects of that attack on the US Marines in Feodosia, back in 2017. msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/…