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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, April 3, 2023

Gun Sick

 DeathSantis signed a bill allowing concealed carry without permitting or training. We know that - while assault weapons like the AR-15 and its imitators are responsible for the shocking mass killings that punctuate our news - it's handguns that reap the most souls in the Land of the Free.

In the second piece, Yglesias does his usual bullshit about what is and isn't possible, but I would wager that most Americans would be behind rigorous licensing and permitting. Absent that, it's long past time to revoke the exemption that gun makers have from civil suits. As we are seeing in the Dominion suit against Fox News, discovery and the threat of damages can be pretty powerful.

As for DeSantis's red meat/red state posturing, I hope there's a mass shooting at some NASCAR event when a car backfires and everyone draws their shootin' irons and starts blasting away. 

Fuckers.

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