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Another candidate, head of Gun Owners of America:

<i>“Gun-control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands,” Larry Pratt, the group’s executive director, said. “Federal and state laws combined to insure that no teacher, no administrator, no adult had a gun at the Newtown school where the children were murdered.</i>

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Jim Hoft fights to regain his crown. From last night:<i> What is clear, is that decades of failed liberal policy have made it difficult to force people with severe mental diseases to be treated or institutionalized. And, then we are all shocked when these same dysfunctional individuals go on a shooting rampage like we witnessed today in Newtown. ... Critics will focus on gun control after today’s school massacre. The focus should be on failed liberal policies that excuse rather than assist extremely dysfunctional individuals. </i>

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Unfortunately, that won't prevent him from getting all the guns he wants.

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Facts and stuff. <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-...">http://www.motherjones.com/...

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Nice. Thanks you.

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Well said. I think it is time to stay mad.

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This seems to be an attempt at a new meme: <i>“Just after the shooting spree, they try to take the guns away from everybody who didn’t do it.”</i>

Yes, that is <i>so</i> unfair. Everyone should be allowed at least one free shooting spree before their guns are taken away.

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This, apparently from someone on Facebook: "These students could also be trained in the use of .22 and .25 handguns at the very least. Rather than being sent to cower in a corner, they could establish a firing line. One bullet might not do much, but dozens of them would."

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And now Jon is off til after Xmas, so there is no chance of him skewering Huckabee in a timely fashion.

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Barf.

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BB:

Like in Hungary vs. the Soviet Union? Also Czechoslovakia.

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That was inspired.

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oh yeah it's gonna be gross. but me personally, i'm done. this one has finally gotten me off my ass and involved.

and i'm pretty sure i'm not the only one.

time to actually say out loud 'fuck you NRA, and yeah, you killed 20 children two weeks before christmas'.

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it's time to take away their guns

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i said a couple posts ago you should run.

i'm going after the guns.

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that's so lovely. thanks

and also: funniest goddamn book. finished it recently. you should buy a copy for them when they fly back to MN with their canoe.

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