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The NYT changed it. First, let's look at the blowback from journalists and politicians: And here's a reaction to the new headline:

Beginning Sept. 1, it will be easier to carry and store guns in Texas, home to five of the 20 deadliest shootings in the United States since 1900.

Sorry if this was posted. This is an Ohio state rep: The Ohio Republican leader is calling on her to resign, as is the Democratic Dayton mayor.

Remember when Democrats went after video games en masse? How times change. It's not perfect but the parties really seemed to have flipped on this.

Beto hasn't been anywhere near one of the top candidates I'm interested in, but his response to this so far has been stellar.

Here's the video:

Perhaps if Warren radicalized the Dayton person, you'd have a point, as opposed to the radicalized white supremacist whose language was criminally similar to Trump's.

So far: Red flags Video games Mental health treatment Those who possess grave risk to society should have no access to firearms and have guns taken away through due process Hate crimes/mass murderers face death penalty

Oh boy, "grizzly video games"

I would have done research during my first vacation layover, but I was not able to stay in Houston to be with @sblfilms so we could analyze Houston and the rest of the state with magnifying glasses and rectal thermometers.

In a rare statement, the FBI said the attack in El Paso "underscores the continued threat posed by domestic violent extremists and perpetrators of hate crimes."

Oh my God.

I needed this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/08/05/heres-how-hottest-month-recorded-history-unfolded-around-globe One caveat:

Here's the audio:

The latter isn't relevant to what I'm saying, dude. The gun control movement had little power and little urgency at the time and throughout the 2000s; look at the backlash after the Brady Bill and how Gore and Kerry tried to tout how they liked to hunt (people forget large gun control legislation was passed in our lifetime). I'm saying the NRA was not super powerful its entire lifetime but grew; you can't expect a movement that's really gaining steam this decade to enact monumental change already when it's already working against an established powerhouse like the NRA. I said many will die before nationwide gun control happens again. Lifetime? Doubtful that it'll take beyond our lifetime. It certainly didn't for the NRA to change the conversation. If you want gun control accomplishments, look no further than Florida, where Democrats united and joined a Republican governor and legislature in passing gun control legislation in a state that's red-tinted. That would not have happened 10 years ago. Democrats are significantly less likely to try to tout anti-gun control legislation now that the NRA is so unpopular within the party.

Don't say it. Don't say it. ... Fuck it. Thoughts and prayers.

True. For the next 50,000 years, gun control will never be enacted nationally. Nothing will change and the NRA will continue to own Congress even then. It died at Columbine and things don't change; time moves but the way of the world is static. 1999 was the end of any gun control until the sun grows and takes Earth with it, so that's it.

NDT in the 1800s: "We don't have enough data to show how widespread lynchings are, so while it's tragic, look at the numbers for smallpox and the flu and react with reasoning."

......he's seriously suggesting that people don't react to suicide or cars or handguns?

The gun control movement was minuscule in 2012, and Republicans controlled a House of Congress. It's powerful and well-funded now and significantly more gun control Democrats are in the Congress. It got to the point where Florida governor Rick Scott signed gun control legislation and the NRA was tepidly against it. The gun control movement is huge now, and we actually have a party that's not trying to get their vote. It was just last decade in 2006 when we elected a bunch of Democrats who were happy to say they weren't going to "take away your guns." Now you have a Democratic Senator in Alabama using his first floor speech to tackle gun control. This stuff doesn't happen overnight. The NRA is powerful because it took them years and years to develop a stranglehold on Congress. Republicans have had control of at least one part of government since January 2011, which includes since Sandy Hook. The gun control movement was nonexistent in the 2000s. It's powerful and well-funded now, and gun safety is now a far bigger priority for Democrats than 10 years ago. There's an actual movement among Democratic voters to pursue massive gun legislation, whereas before there was not.

I also disagree with the notion that after Sandy Hook, we were screwed. I get it and I understand that infamous tweet. But what I truly remember is since then, the gun control movement has gotten so large and so well-funded that they actually compete with the NRA, and now instead of having support from both parties with Democrats talking about how they like to hunt, you have one of the two major parties giving the NRA the finger and not suffering blowback from it as they used to think they would. The truth is, the gun control movement is more powerful now than I can remember in recent memory. The sad truth also is that, while I think we'll get there, many people are going to die first.