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I am confused, how can it be wrong to ban high capacity magazines because it imposes such a burden on gun owners to have to change them out, yet there's no point in banning them because it won't slow down a killer one bit since they can be changed out in a fraction of a second?

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Easy: cognitive dissonance

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Also Dana, when a weapon is chosen by a mass murderer after doing what has been described as PhD level research into past mass murders and the weapons and tactics that were used in them, it really makes you look like a particularly nasty, ugly troll to claim the only conceivable reason to regulate that weapon is that it "looks scary". No Dana, it <em>is</em> scary because as history shows, it is very well adapted to the task for which it was designed: killing people in large numbers.

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But if it were possible, the NRA would be all in favor of unrestricted sales of fully automatic armor-piercing spoons with laser sights. For freedumb.

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It's only the same-sex spooning they'll try to outlaw.

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Seems reasonable to apply the same reasoning (I know, I know....) used with vaccines: The manufacturers pony up the cash needed to care for the victims of the inevitable, occasional bad outcomes.

Ever wonder what a gun would cost, if the costs of compensation and lifetime care for gunshot victims were properly apportioned, instead of being dumped on the rest of us? One study puts it at $100 billion annually. Spread that over over 300 million guns floating around the USA, and you get an annual tax of $333.00 per gun.

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I also too. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcm-J7lQT3w">http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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" "If this country prized intellectual rigor in debates about complex and important issues, Dana Loesch would just be one more dipshit college dropout suburbanite the neighbors stop inviting to barbecues because she always starts political arguments and gets offended when no one eats her crappy potato salad."

That's some funny, funny stuff right there!

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The phrase "a regular carnival of derp and argle bargle" is absolutely lovely. Worthy of S.J. Perelman.

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Depending on on your musical tastes, you might consider <a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=RwCa0MpLJew" target="_blank">this</a> assault with spoons.

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Thank you. I feel a lot more cheerful now.

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Oops, called out. I could try to weasel out by saying that Monk never played prepared piano, so no spoons were involved. I'll come clean and admit that I picked the name because Monk used to be a favourite of my dad in his younger days. I'm not a great jazz fan myself, but will you settle for <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=HwfA59_6RFM" target="_blank">Straight, No Chaser</a>?

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Pouring juice into a glass is not epic. Pouring WINE into a glass is epic.

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A loud laugh?

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Not so much made up as entirely lacking credibility because of the "long tail". Also too because of people committing aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and <a href="http:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/hicrc\/firearms-research\/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2\/" target="_blank">calling it</a> self-defense.

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The Blue Raja: Your boy's a limey fork-flinger, Mother. What will the bridge club say?

Blue Raja's mother: You need more forks?

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