DC Tom

Mika's insane.

Do you know any fifth graders to help you with it?

You know what the biggest problem is this country faces? The constant portrayal of individual opinion as general facts.

Just a meadium-sized one. Big enough to make a mess if it hits the mead-Atlantic.

But that's Trump's fault. And they're called "gulags" in this context.

If he's a Republican, then he's a white supremacist, and they fired him for supporting terrorism, which is not illegal under CA law.

Less angrily...there's a Second Amendment that supersedes any law Congress passes. Democrats want to pretend it simply doesn't exist. That's complete bull####. You want to change the country, fine. Start at the Constitutional level. Good luck.

That's not how it works, you weaselly little *****.

It's not. Again, it happens all the time.

Last I checked, NY is still part of the US.

No. In fact, NYS can and has taken away people's property because a relative was diagnosed with a mental illness.

You were supposed to see it. Seizing people's property without due process based solely on suspicion happens every goddamn day in the United States.

I have vague recollections of reading articles describing Ike as basically being old and out-of-touch.

Well, they won't put them on trial, yes...

Can confirm. I mock DR all the time. If he cares at all, he seems to enjoy it.

There's a reason most of the coverage is of El Paso.

He's still here? I hadn't even noticed.

And "belief" is what makes it a religion, asshat.

Again, that is entirely dependent on your definition of "mass shooting."

That's obviously cherry-picked, and I doubt that represents even a small minority of New Yorkers, but that any people are as stupid as this is concerning.

It just feels wrong, doesn't it?

World's getting better. US is getting worse.

ALWAYS make for the worst witnesses. People are idiots. Eyewitnesses suck. Or look at it this way: she's wearing black. She dove to the floor when she heard shooting. Someone else saw her diving to the floor, dressed in black, and is reported they saw multiple shooters because they saw her. I'm honestly surprised. I would have figured that Amazon would claim to own the footage.

The M16's ineffectiveness was also that it was hot garbage in its first iteration. But @bdutton is right. US infantry doctrine since before WWII has stressed firepower in a suppressive role (rifles have never been the killing weapons on modern battlefields). That requires a greater ammo load, which favored the lighter .223 round (since you can carry more of them). Stopping power was a secondary consideration, and the unstable nature of the 5.56mm round that caused tumbling and ruptures was more a side effect than an intended one (and arguably against international law, as well.)

I think you're right. I just remember Lars Ulrich testifying.