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Impress me then, electric scooters can go 12-15 mph (or more for non governed units) and have no issues stopping quickly. What's the difference?

Yes. In VA beach it's separate from both cars and pedestrians. It's nice, but I've seen bikers there just on my short vacation pay no attention to pedestrians crossing.

Not sure why biking has to be done at such a speed as to make swerving necessary. Or maybe it wasn't necessary and the door that opens into a bike lane by design makes it obviously not the car driver's fault she swerved into traffic. Like, I'm all for making cities more walkable/bike worthy but unless we've got a magic wand then cars and bikes are going to share the road for a while and as much as drivers need to watch out for bikers I'm always struck by how no bike accident is ever ever attributed to the biker.

On the one hand I feel bad for cyclists, on the other hand I don't.

Thanks for the analysis, Canadian.

Why are we accepting the ridiculous premise that you need to (or rather, would have to) perform background checks to lend guns? Just as long as you're as criminally liable for what happens with the gun as when you loan your car I don't see a problem.

Why would they go to all that effort when it's been proven you can successfully rig a primary by holding only six debates with some of them being on nights with primetime competition?

Another set of tweets obviously not written by trump himself.

Counter-point: good people sometimes need to do things that run contrary to what they believe makes them good people, in order to defend from not-good people; the rhetoric of evil may risk dehumanization but a little bit may be necessary for good people to act.

To paraphrase; MSNBC is the worst 24 hour news network, except for all the rest.

He's old.

The "These two 80 year olds haven't seen each other since Trump's separation and their reunion will warm your heart!" holodeck special.

America is still going to be reuniting families from this even after every single one of us is dead.

I'm talking about a climate debate that people are clamoring for, not this.

We don't need a climate debate, are you people masochists? I'm not tuning in to watch these ten bozos agree with each other for three hours.

We're required to be mindful of a person's capacity to drive safely before we loan them our vehicle, otherwise we may be liable. You're also on the hook if you loan to someone you know isn't licensed. I don't see why similar regulations can't work with universal background checks; Crenshaw sounds more like your typical Republican using a maximal argument to avoid discussing reality. If you don't want to be on the hook for crimes committed with the gun you loaned to someone the choices are a) don't loan your gun to that person or b) argue that you shouldn't be held liable. Crenshaw chose B.

It's semantics to argue over a differences between being able to "claim" a defense when it's not at all unclear as to what I meant.

Semantics.

And regardless of what you are or are not charged with, if you're charged you don't get to claim a first amendment protection.

In explaining his gaffes, Biden gaffes again.

Yes you do, you just don't like the answer.

Thanks for the reckless and constant conspiracy mongering, doe.

It does happen, but how do we know that they weren't just trying to find a quiet place to smoke some weed? I'm not trying to condemn the guy but we don't know enough yet to start patting him on the back.