Only in America

[Tero]

Concealing guns does what you think it does:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/study-con ... ent-crime/

[Tero]

From there, if concealed carry becomes even more popular, criminals will not hesitate to shoot their intended victims:

The authors of the study forecast a morbid future should concealed carry become a national movement: “[A]s more citizens carry guns, more criminals will find it increasingly beneficial to carry guns and use them more quickly and more violently to thwart any potential armed resistance.”

[Seabass]

[Joe]

Wow, I'd wondered where the Moonies went.

[Tero]

WASHINGTON—In the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 dead and 14 injured, sources confirmed Wednesday that the idea of doing absolutely nothing until the next mass shooting is gaining considerable traction in Congress. “After the recent tragedies, lawmakers have shown a great deal of interest in a proposal that’s been circulating to sit back and do jack shit until the next entirely preventable massacre goes down on U.S. soil,” sources said of the legislators’ plan to twiddle their thumbs while the next unhinged lunatic effortlessly purchases an AR-15 before firing it indiscriminately in what could be either a crowded mall, a movie theater, an airport, or even another school. “As soon as the Parkland shooting happened, party leaders banded together, declared ‘Enough is enough,’ and immediately began formulating a way to talk out of their asses via their social media accounts while doing nothing to create, strengthen, or better enforce basic gun laws. This measure to squander their unique opportunity to pass legislation that puts an end to the maddening cycle of gun violence is very popular right now, and will likely continue to be championed until the next group of innocent men, women, and children are brutally slaughtered.” Sources added that the plan has a high chance of surviving, as it has the full support of the NRA.
(But it was the Onion)

[Scot Dutchy]

But that is exactly what is going to happen. Nothing will change. The NRA will pay out a bit more and it will be once again forgotten.

[Forty Two]

Only Nixon could go to China.

[Tero]

Teachers are just as likely to go nuts as anyone. Other than the post office! Armed trachers will just lead to incidents:

President Trump’s proposal to arm teachers seemed nutty enough even before a second former high school teacher of the year was arrested for firing a gun inside his school.

Both teachers were in Georgia, which generally prohibits people from carrying firearms on school grounds, The first was a star math instructor at Lithia Springs High School, 25 miles from Atlanta. He fired one bullet from a handgun in what may have been a suicide attempt back in August.

The second was on Wednesday, when a star social studies teacher at Dalton High School, 90 miles from Atlanta. He was arrested for barricading himself in his classroom and firing a shot with a handgun for reasons yet to be determined.

[Hermit]

Only Nixon could go to China.

Orly? Nixon followed our soon-to-be Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam's, footsteps. He made an official 12-day visit to China as Australia's leader of the opposition and met China's Premier, Zhou Enlai, even before Nixon's envoy, Henry Kissinger, had turned up to prepare for Nixon's. That was in July 1971, seven months before the anti-communist "Only Nixon could..." turned up.

[Forty Two]

Only Nixon could go to China.

Orly? Nixon followed our soon-to-be Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam's, footsteps. He made an official 12-day visit to China as Australia's leader of the opposition and met China's Premier, Zhou Enlai, even before Nixon's envoy, Henry Kissinger, had turned up to prepare for Nixon's. That was in July 1971, seven months before the anti-communist "Only Nixon could..." turned up.

It's a saying. It's an "old Vulcan proverb." (see Start Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country).

[Hermit]

Only Nixon could go to China.

Orly? Nixon followed our soon-to-be Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam's, footsteps. He made an official 12-day visit to China as Australia's leader of the opposition and met China's Premier, Zhou Enlai, even before Nixon's envoy, Henry Kissinger, had turned up to prepare for Nixon's. That was in July 1971, seven months before the anti-communist "Only Nixon could..." turned up.

It's a saying. It's an "old Vulcan proverb." (see Start Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country).

A saying that does not fit Nixon. End of

[JimC]

The saying is purely in the American context, I think, suggesting that only a hard-nosed republican could do it, not a wishy-washy democrat...

[Tero]

But we sort of...she got a lot of votes...just rejected one with more balls than Trump.

[Joe]

The saying is purely in the American context, I think, suggesting that only a hard-nosed republican could do it, not a wishy-washy democrat...

Yeah, because of his role on the House Un-American Activities Committee during the post WWII red scare, Nixon was seen as reliably tough on Communism, Democrats, not so much.

[laklak]

Richard and Chou, at Tanagra.