3967

Scratch that, all 4 were legally purchased. May have been out of state. We’ll see.

3968

I did hear a news network say last night that they were using illegal 30 capacity magazines. I don’t vouch for the accuracy of that though.

3969

Or we can just pray harder. That ought to stop the mass shootings.

3970

I don’t know if it’s still true, but when I lived in California in the early 90s, I took the BFSC test without every studying a damn thing, let alone knowing anything about guns beyond what I’d learned in a week at Scout camp a decade earlier… And passed with flying colors.

3971

You know, if nothing happened after Sandy Hook, nothing is going to happen now.

3972

That’s right. If a bunch of school kids are slaughtered and that doesn’t result in any kind of increase in restrictions, nothing will. It doesn’t get much more horrific than that.

As long as the House has a big chunk of extremely conservative votes, nothing’s happening shy of some kind of Executive order that goes around Congress that will then be upheld by the SC.

3973

This is somewhat disturbing:

Behind closed doors, speaking with investors and Wall Street analysts, the gun industry views mass shootings as an opportunity to make lots of money…

…Here’s how it works. Following a mass shooting, there is talk of gun control, which the National Rifle Association and other gun advocates attack as an assault on the Second Amendment. Notably, gun and ammunition manufacturers often donate, either directly or as a portion of each sale, to the NRA. The fear of losing gun rights leads to panic buying, which brings greater profits to gun retailers, gun companies and their investors.

3974

I don’t know if it is still like this or not, but not too long ago there was such a fear Obama was going to do something with ammo that people where buying in such amounts that suppliers couldn’t keep up with certain types. There was actually a shortage.

3975

Don’t worry the GOP is on the case!

They passed a bill in the Senate to cut funding for Planned Parenthood.
Cause after getting a bunch of people murdered with your rhetoric, it’s time to ramp up your rhetoric.

3976

Here’s an interesting approach: What if buying a gun followed the same rules as getting an abortion?

Hours before shots rang out in San Bernardino, California, leaving 14 dead and 21 injured, Missouri State Rep. Stacey Newman introduced a bill with a simple premise:

What if the process to buy guns in America was as difficult as the one to get an abortion?

A flight crew member turned political consultant, Newman was inspired to run for office after watching her daughter Sophie, then 6, talk about guns and kids on The Rosie O’Donnell Show. After founding a statewide political action committee called Harriet’s List, she was elected to office in 2009 where she’s built a reputation of being tough on firearms.
…
Her bill, first reported on by St. Louis Magazine, isn’t modeled after the general restrictions to getting an abortion in America, but her state’s specifically. Missouri some of the toughest in the nation. Missouri is one of just a few states operating with less than five abortion clinics, and one of four that enforces a 72-hour waiting period.
…
Prior to any firearm purchase in this state, a prospective firearm shall:

— Confer and discuss with a licensed physician the indicators and contraindicators and risk factors, including any physical, psychological, or situational factors, that may arise with the proposed firearm purchase at a firearm dealer located at least 120 miles from the purchaser’s legal residence.

— Submit to an evaluation for the physician to search the individual for indicators and contraindicators and risk factors and determine if such firearm purchase would increase the purchaser’s risk of experiencing an adverse physical, emotional, or other health reaction.

— Listen to oral statement regarding the risks associated with the purchase as well read and sign a written statement that includes the following:

  1. The name and license number of the licensed firearm dealer.

  2. The immediate and long-term medical risks associated with firearms, along with medical descriptions and photographs of fatal firearm injuries, as collected by emergency pediatric medical professionals, law enforcement, and prosecutors’ offices.

  3. Alternatives to purchasing a firearm, which shall include materials about peaceful and nonviolent conflict resolution.

  4. A statement that the dealer is available to answer any questions concerning the purchase of a firearm, together with the telephone number of the dealer that the dealer may be reached to answer any questions the purchaser may have.

  5.  The prospective firearm purchaser shall obtain written consent of his or her parents in order to qualify for the purchase of any firearm.

— Watch a 30-minute video on fatal firearm injuries, as collected by urban medical professionals, law enforcement, and local prosecutors, and verify in writing he or she viewed the entire video in the presence of a licensed firearm dealer.

— Verify in writing by a licensed physician that the purchaser has toured an emergency trauma center in the nearest qualified urban hospital on a weekend between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. when gun violence victims are present.

— Within 72 hours of a firearm purchase, the prospective firearm purchaser meet with at least two families who have been victims of violence involving a firearm and two local faith leaders who have officiated, within the past year, a funeral of a victim of violence involving a firearm who was under the age of eighteen.

Newman says she knows the bill will never go anywhere, but she’s hoping it will raise awareness for both abortion rights and gun control.

3977

I tip my cap to some creative red meat for progressives.

[EDIT] Heh, I see this was already posted in the other thread, to the thrill of all.

3978

Not really, other than .22LR, availability and prices have returned to pre-Sandy Hook levels.

3979

Hopefully they’ll have a shooter in the bell tower for maximum verisimilitude.

3980

What in the fuck?

I mean, holy shit, how tone deaf are they!

3981

UT, which Scalia just said is too advanced for black students to be able to do well. For pity’s fucking sake. If only there was a way to impeach a judge for sheer imbecility.

3982

I think it’s time for the baseball bat’s rights group to go talk to these assholes as they parade around campus with cardboard guns. Jesus H. Christ.

3983

Scalia jumped that shark, high-fived Thomas, and rode off into the sunset years ago.

(Not sure he tops the list of “devil-schlorping assholes who have ruined the country” but yeah, he’s top 5. Salt the earth when he finally dies, etc, etc.)

3984

Of course, liberty college has decided to allow students to keep guns in their dorms now.

I wonder how their employees feel about that, as well as their insurers and liability lawyers.

3985
3986

And this is the actual quote from Scalia:

“There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less – a slower-track school where they do well,” Scalia said, according to the transcript. “One of the briefs pointed out that most of the black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas.”

As Lemon points out, Scalia didn’t say that UT is too advanced for black students. He pointed out a friend of the court brief that was filed, when he was questioning one of the lawyers.