I think anyone who doesn't think Trump is the worst President in history needs to educate themselves. Desperately.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

What an evil vagina Wayne LaPierre is.

Edit: Update from the President of the USA

How the fuck would it "serve as a deterrent"? Most school shooters don't care if they die, they just want a legacy of having killed someone, if they're alive or not to celebrate it doesn't seem to matter. Such a dumb fucking guy.

Absolutely agree.

What a fucking stupid thing to suggest for so many reasons.

Thank god it won’t happen. But for the president to say summat like that is terrifying enough. Christ.

Info about a top-secret security clearance has been leaked to the press? Not so secret then.

Spineless fucks.

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Seriously, after I saw that episode, I immediately thought, "This is more true than it even thinks it is."

For those who haven't seen BoJack Horseman (it's a fantastic series), there's an episode titled "Thoughts and Prayers" where the female lead hates guns but ends up carrying a gun herself and then starts a movement for women to carry them to defend against rape. The movement takes off and guns become popular with women. Mass shootings happen frequently throughout the episode, and as in real life nobody does anything, until one finally happens with the twist being the shooter is female. The state of California promptly bans all guns.

This was meant to be over the top satire, or at least it was presented that way, but I don't doubt that that's exactly what would happen. If the 2nd Amendment debate were to somehow become a women's rights issue, positions would change. Fast. Same if it were identified with any other group than conservative white men overcompensating for their insecurities. I've long felt that it's ironic that the group that always talks about the need for civilians to own assault rifles to protect against government tyranny is also the last group that would actually be targeted if the feds somehow needed to use brute force to usurp more control than what they already have. And that it's the groups the gun nuts typically hate - immigrants, LGBT especially trans, illicit drug users, racial minorities, etc. - who would most actually need the right to bear arms, because it's those groups the government would target first after scapegoating them with the same type of dangerous rhetoric and propaganda they're using now.

Case in point, about what I just said about drug users: I just saw Trump doing a rally where he calls for drug dealers to get the death penalty. And the Secular Talk channel on youtube had the perfect take on this: he's not talking about big pharma. He's not talking about the drug alcohol, which is responsible for 75,000 deaths in the US each year, so he's not talking about dragging the CEO of Budweiser out of his house and forcing him into an electric chair. No, he's talking about street dealers. People who turned to a black market because they were shafted by a broken system and weren't born into money like this horse's ass who started with "a small loan of a million dollars" and went on to spend his whole life scamming people for money he didn't need. And one of Nixon's aides just recently came out and admitted that they started the war on drugs so they could jail hippies and African Americans who weren't likely to vote for them. That was the whole motive to begin with. Those are groups the government would come after in a hostile takeover, and it's because they're poor and they have no influence like the NRA and their rich friends. They would never come for Cletus and JimBob down at the shooting range because they need them for votes.

And I'm not even being fair to Cletus and JimBob, because most of the NRA's members support universal background checks. Just not the NRA itself. The NRA actually started out as an organization that was in favor of sensible gun regulation, but over time they started making too much money thanks to these irresponsible policies. And now they're trying to distract us with a decades old debunked discussion about fucking violence in video games.

The gun debate is identity politics. That's all it is. Just parrot this list of talking points and call liberals pussies and you'll be seen as a strong, virile man. I'm no radical feminist, and I'm not for putting things in such simplistic terms, but in this case I think it really is that simple.

You want serious gun reform, start a movement where it becomes a women's self defense issue. You want idiots to stop being idiots, change the issue so their demagogues can't make it sound like it's about them.

i love jon oliver