Dorkington

It's amazing how obsessed we are with mediocre former players and coaches here.

I don't know guys, I think we should be outraged and call for him to be released.

I'm admittedly gun ignorant... What are the effective differences between the AR-15 and Sig Sauer MCX? On initial review it seems like they are effectively similar weapons with not much use for anything other than killing people. I suppose maybe hunting animals like Coyote?

Kind of disappointing, but the real test will be where he's at by season start

He'll be our new Boobie

Whether he's directly connected or not, doesn't really make a huge difference in my mind. He's at the very least a sympathizer, making ISIS at least partially responsible. This event is an act of terrorism. It's also a lone-wolf mass shooter. And it's also a hate crime (ironically, by a self loathing gay man). A lot of people are speaking in absolutes about this, when it doesn't appear to be so neatly categorized. - Signed, Finger Pointing Lefty Liberal

The thought just occurred to me... do we pass less over the middle to force teams to play the sidelines, in hopes of freeing up running space up the middle?

Adolph is a bust.

How is it conflicting?

http://gawker.com/multiple-people-say-the-orlando-shooter-was-gay-1781932976 To add to the previous links... More and more it looks like a gay man who was raised by a father/religion that hates gays. Oomph.

Very possible... but visiting 12 times seems a little over the top for profiling, no?

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/gunman-orlando-pulse-omar-mateen-lgbt-gay-nightclub-regular-visitor And possibly a self-loathing bigotry twist, too. This is all over the place.

Unfortunately, I can't. My opinions are relatively uneducated, so I can't provide details on how specifically to implement them. To me, mental healthcare isn't a whole lot different than providing long term physical rehabilitative therapy.

I was confused by that for a minute

If I had a fool proof answer to this, I wouldn't be at my current job, that's for sure My personal opinion and belief is that this problem needs to be approached from various directions, and will require a lot of patience/sacrifice. I understand the following will be heavily ridiculed, highly unpopular here, and will never come to pass within the US. Social/Mental health side: - Universal healthcare of some fashion, guaranteeing every individual legally in the US has access to healthcare, including mental healthcare - Public campaign to stem the social stigma of 'talking about your problems'. A lot of people bottle things up, because they're afraid of reaching out. - Public campaigns about equality, and treating each other better. Yes, this includes bullying. A lot of shooters are bullied kids who grow resentful into adulthood. - Investigate wealth inequality. Does economic desperation have an impact on creating criminals? Gun availability/ownership: - Ban personal gun ownership, with exceptions for hunting licenses, possibly. (hunting is important to keep animal populations in check in certain areas, but could theoretically be done by the government... not too many in the US depend on hunting for their main source of meat anymore) - Put major restrictions on gun manufacturing, limiting who the guns may be sold to - Give tax credits for guns currently in circulation, when turned in (money talks for a lot of people) Foreign Affairs: - Lessen our participation in foreign affairs, in general. In simplistic terms, the Taliban/Al Qaeda were a result of intervention during the Cold War, and ISIS from the Iraq War. If we never got involved in either, its very possible resentment doesn't grow into extremism that we see today. Would there still be a boat load of very conservative Muslims? Yes. But they'd be focusing on being sexist in their own countries, instead of blowing up/shooting up western cities. "Freeing" certain societies can come back to bite us in the ass, and they have. None of the above are likely to happen here. So I generally support things like better background checks, regulations on what sorts of guns are allowed for 'home protection', locally funded health clinics, social media campaigns promoting equality/anti bullying, etc. These would be baby steps in the right direction, but baby steps are better than no steps. Also, I understand that no matter how peaceful things are, there will always be extremists looking to cause damage. But my hope is, if we create a more peaceful society, in general, that the amount of extremism will lessen, and with some regulation/law adjustments, the extremists who do want to cause damage will have a more difficult time obtaining the tools necessary to do so. At the end of the day, we have to take a serious look at ourselves, and ask if inaction/political games are worth the human cost. I'll take my lumps now

Considering what 'set him off' was supposedly seeing two guys kissing.

I'm glad we've reached consensus that Shaq is a bust.

Neither 'side' is really in love with their candidate, its kind of a depressing election

I agree with all of this. And again.

Mass shootings aren't generally as common in other parts of the developed world. That being said, terrorist attacks are a worry in many parts of the world. Like I said, this is multi faceted. It isn't *just* a terrorist thing, not here anyways. It's not like Muslims are the only ones shooting up people here.

I'll make a new poll after the conventions. I plan to add Green Party and Libertarian Party candidates, after all is said and done. I'm actually surprised that Clinton has this many supporters here considering the general narrative of PPP.

It's interesting watching you guys put so many words in the mouths of collective 'left'. - We have terrorism threats/issues in the US. - We have gun availability issues in the US. - We have gun ownership issues in the US. - We have mental healthcare availability issues in the US. - We have social integration issues in the US. - We have equality issues in the US. - We have security intelligence issues in the US. (and likely more) The most recent attack was a terrorist attack. The most recent attack was a homegrown/lone wolf mass shooting. The most recent attack was a large scale hate crime. This doesn't fit tidily into any one political narrative. We have created for ourselves, an environment that cultivates such events. Not only through our own actions/inactions in our own country, but also our actions/inactions over recent history in other areas of the world. It's up to us to do what it takes to fix this. Unfortunately we are too busy fighting amongst ourselves for political points.

It's amazing how many 'fans' root for the Bills to lose.

Thankfully. Info on that event: http://heavy.com/news/2016/06/james-howell-indiana-los-angeles-hollywood-pride-parade-attack-guns-weapons-photos-facebook-terrorist/

He's definitely among the top tier of backups in my book. Is that what we wanted from him? Nope. Will we keep him around as that? Probably not, I imagine he'll go somewhere that might 'promise' him a shot at starting.