A gun-store owner and his son were killed in a shootout with two customers after an argument over a $25 firearm repair fee, police told NBC station WDSU. The patrons were also taken to hospital with serious injuries following Saturday's incident at the store near Picayune, Mississippi, which is 130 miles south of Jackson.
The only thing that stops a law-abiding citizen with a gun - I can't make the joke work, even for me.
And I can't get cute with, "Well, as long as they're killing each other, I'll call that an improvement".
Fuck that, and fuck me for thinking it.
We've been trying hard to tell you for a long time. It's up to you now, ammosexuals. Those were your guys. Get off your ass and do something about it. Step up or step aside.
John Fowler, National Review Publisher, telling us basically that the GOP "establishment" has become the new Surrender Monkeys.
But BTW - "GOP Establishment"? Is that even still a thing? And yes, of course it is, even though they've been striving all these many long years to trick people into thinking there isn't really an "establishment" because that goes against all of that rugged individualism bullshit they've been peddling for those same many long years.
"The Big-Daddy Conservatives" have inveighed against Central Planning forever (working feverishly to make sure the rubes ignore the fact that the strategy comes from a committee at GOP HQ), but now that their party has broken up into a thousand little independent franchising operations, they're all clutching their pearls tight enough to choke a RINO (buh-dum-chssh - sorry).
Anyway, if any of these jokers had ever really bothered to read Ayn Rand, they'd know that the main tenet of Objectivsm is that while a contradiction can exist, it can't prevail. Which means they'd understand that what's happening to the GOP now is what they've actually been saying should happen.
They've wanted everybody standing alone. If we're all separated from each other, we can't very well act in concert with each other, and that way, the people who're already in power get to stay in power, and the rest of us get to pay rent to them.
But then, here comes Trump-o-mania. I can't think of a clearer example of the almost instinctual inclination of people to get together and push back once they realize they're being fucked over. Why, it's almost like they're - dare I say it? - Unionizing.
What I think is going on now is that the old GOP bosses are finding it a lot more difficult to co-opt the Trumpkins like they co-opted the TeaBaggers. The more the GOP tries to play nice and get the rubes to come home, the harder Trump pushes them towards the extreme. Whatever else he is or appears to be, the guy's no dummy. He knows how to hijack a proxy fight at a stockholders' meeting.
And yes, there are some very close parallels with The Bernie Mensches. But don't be stoopid enough to think I'm joining the Both-Siders. If you can't tell the difference between Bernie and Trump, you need to put down the spray paint and go outside for a while.
So - common cause, anyone? Bernie makes a lot of sense for the Trumpkins - all the good stuff about truth-telling and fair deals and solid American values, but without the brown shirts and protester beatings.
So which way do we go on this one? Blue Lives Matter? Khaki Lives Matter? Support The Troops? Save Our Vets? One faction of Uber-Patriots fighting against other factions of Uber-Patriots, and all of a sudden, it's like we don't even have a fucking country anymore.
