And the left will allow it to be. Liberals will meekly go onto the trains while screaming about the hypocrisy and injustice. And meanwhile, the trains will run.

Wonder why minorities, LGBT and women are the largest gun purchasing demographic, and have been for a few years? You suburban white boys better pull your head out your ass and learn.

He would have been hung 200-years ago.

I vote against. Walking those wasted streets is a hammer blow, I don’t have words. People need to see those empty streets, foundation outlines, sidewalks. A monument will only take away from that blasted, desolate landscape.

Anyway, they’ll put something up, people will get out of their car, read some words on a plaque and say, “Gosh! That was terrible!” and drive away.

Right with ya, until…

if it were harder for the general public to get guns

Is there anywhere harder to get a gun? Even pellet guns are illegal in NYC. You can be legal in one state, passing through to another state where you’re legal, and NY can take your ass to jail for a gun in the trunk.

So. More laws might help?

Did you not watch? I saw every second and it was disastrous for Biden.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/inside-the-uvalde-response/

I’d question what’s “unsafe”, but this was bipartisan and unanimous. Hopefully the governor gets overruled by the legislature.

He’s saying the call to close a beach should be local, not at the state level. Of course the locals will never close a beach. Anyone seen Jaws?

OTOH, I’m not aware of anywhere here in NW Florida that suffers pollution. Red tide maybe should call for a shutdown, and I believe it occasionally does.

And I have to agree. Anyone choking our economic lifeline isn’t getting back in office to do it again. Seems an easy call when you’re not fucking with 10’s of thousands of livelihoods.

No idea what the answer is, but a higher authority (the state) should make the call.

This is a whole paradigm shift, and it’s not new.

Got me confused. Are you saying these tactics are new or not? I vote for new, mostly, kinda, but both at once. Sorta.

You’re thinking of the Deep South. Baptists aren’t a big thing in OK, in fact I always thought they were viewed as slightly weird.

It’s a joke about a guy landing a Cessna in Red Square.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust

Fighting is exactly why they die. There’s about no one that is strong enough to swim back.

I live up here. Water’s as flat as it gets once past the tiny breakers. I’m certain these are cases of people panicking and trying to swim back to shore.

No idea how to educate visitors. LOL, I’m sure municipalities don’t want giant billboards with a death tally, but that would get attention.

Such as falling whales?

I’m using a wall-mounted TV as a 2nd monitor.

I am streaming to my TV. 50" TV on my desktop for a daily driver, 55" (wired) on the wall for media.

Windows PC. I’m wired from my 50" TV monitor to a 55" on the wall.

We are agreed! I stick to liberal or unbiased gun content, and that’s not hard to do. But I’m well aware of all the macho, kill 'em all, Punisher logo type bullshit out there.

Maybe that’s partly what I’m getting at? Just seems like guns were a tool when I was a kid. Nothing to puff one’s chest about.

As to mass media, yeah, shit really seems to have gone off the rails after Columbine. Maybe that’s my age and life experience talking, but I don’t remember much of anything before that.

Sure, there was Charles Whitman unloading from the Austin clock tower, but that was news precisely because it was so unheard of.

Got some backing on that? What I really meant to address was mass shootings, but I’d look at evidence either way.

Tough on the couple involved, and even though the decision tastes foul, I think I agree.

While a citizen “certainly has a fundamental right to marriage” Barrett said, “it is a fallacy to leap from that premise to the conclusion that United States citizens [do not] have a fundamental right that can limit how Congress exercises the nation’s sovereign power to admit or exclude foreigners.” [Emphasis mine]

Else we could all flood Texas and marry immigrants into the country, bypassing the government’s decisions and responsibility.

tl;dr: Getting a marriage license doesn’t usurp Congress’ power.

Marriage and immigration is such a clusterfuck. Only reason my wife is here, free and clear, is that she was married to her American ex for 2+ years. Done deal. She’s not a citizen and never needs to be to stay here forever. I’m fine with that. Without that previous marriage, who knows? She’d either be going through immigration hell or already be deported back to the Philippines.

Going through immigration hell right now, trying to get her youngest over here.