GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm relieved that LE caught the terrorist piece of shit

Last night trump posted "SHOULD GET THE DEATH PENALTY". It's one thing if some of us were to say that, it's something else entirely when the President of the United States says it. Hello, Mr. Defense Attorney, look what's on the silver platter. Ahahaha. the prez is so dumb. Go, donald go.

I saw that comment and the one he walked back about sending the suspect to Gitmo. I don’t think Trump understands the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution, or he just doesn’t respect the Constitution.

There are a few cases underway where his prejudicial and inflammatory public exclamations are causing more work for the courts.

I don’t expect him to knock it off, but hope he does.

[Duchess]

I don’t expect him to knock it off, but hope he does.

Lindsay Graham, dat u?

It must be very frustrating to those who are trying to get work done and they are stopped by the reporters on the Hill and questioned about comments/tweets that are made. I can hear it in their voices sometimes.

[Duchess]

A Maryland woman seriously wounded during this month’s worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history woke up from a coma Friday.

Tina Frost, 27, was at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas with her boyfriend on Oct. 1 when she was shot once in the forehead.

Doctors had to remove Frost’s right eye and part of her skull to remove bullet fragments, according to The Baltimore Sun.

“She’ll have pieces of the bullet in her brain forever,” Frost’s mother, Mary Moreland, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.


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I have an update to this story and it's wonderful news.

It's kinda long but well worth a read. I hope she continues to progress so well.

Doctors once feared the worst for 27-year-old Tina Frost, who was shot in the eye in the Las Vegas mass shooting. Now, the Crofton, Maryland, native is out of intensive care, and even playing soccer with her father in the hospital hallways.

This week is much better than last for Tina Frost, who on Tuesday spoke her first words since the Oct. 1 shooting. Last week, Frost was fighting a fever and still recovering from brain surgery, but is now able to leave her hospital bed and has been transferred out of the Intensive Care Unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, said family spokeswoman Amy Klinger.

Frost has been working with a speech therapist, and Klinger says her tracheotomy tube has been adjusted so she can speak freely — in one instance about her parents’ recent travels to see her sister’s soccer game.

“She was able to say what school she goes to and which sister it was, and she answered those questions without hesitation and without problem. It’s really, really amazing,” Klinger said.

Frost was shot through her right eye and rescued by her boyfriend and another friend, who got her to the hospital quickly. She lost her eye as well as her sinus on the right side, which Klinger said could affect her sense of smell, and even her balance.

The fact she’s able to speak now could mean that her doctors can better assess any possible brain damage the accountant may have sustained to the area of the brain behind her eye.

“The front parts of the brain control judgment and personality. It definitely seems like her personality is there. They’ll obviously test for judgment and other things,” Klinger said. However, the lifelong soccer player is exhibiting her love of the game, passing a ball back and forth with her father while standing.

“Obviously they were just gently passing it. But if the ball went away from where she was, she moved it back with her foot. She controlled the ball like a soccer player,” Klinger said.

Frost has started eating solid food, is able to get up to use the bathroom and is showing signs she can make decisions about her care, which are all major steps, Klinger said.

“She’s made unbelievable progress; where a month ago the doctors were saying, ‘We just don’t know.’ Now she’s one month out and she’s walking.”

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[HairOfTheDog]

Lindsay Graham, dat u?

Nope......but I was told a few times that I looked like Lindsay Wagner way back when. ')

I haven't heard Graham's comments on President Trump's latest comments, but I take it he also wishes Trump would cut it out.

I imagine most people who care about due process and fair trials wish the same.

ETA: Great news about Tina Frost!

[Duchess]

I haven't heard Graham's comments on President Trump's latest comments, but I take it he also wishes Trump would cut it out.

I imagine most people who care about due process and fair trials wish the same.

I was just messin' with ya, doll. When confronted with a mic/camera most of the lawmakers say a version of the same thing you said.

[HairOfTheDog]

I was just messin' with ya, doll.

I know; no worries. When people start mistaking me for Lindsey Graham in person, that's when I might get a little upset!

I like Graham alright, though he's kinda fickle and I find him too hawkish.

[Maggot]

The bionic woman was good at the beginning but in the later episodes it became very dramatic. Her ears were giving her trouble and she was hearing all kinds of strange stuff. Meanwhile Steve Austin was swimming the coast of Russia or tearing the door off a car that went off the road. She was hanging out at Steve's parents horse ranch and basically sucking out the fun part of being bionic with her personal problems. The best thing about her was she didn't wear a bra and catching glimpses of nipple was one of the only things that kept me going to high school every morning.

[HairOfTheDog]

It doesn’t take bionic or even remedial interpretation skills to get your drift Maggot.

Got it.

[Maggot]

It doesn’t take bionic or even remedial interpretation skills to get your drift Maggot.

Got it.

I just re read what I wrote and it's not a subliminal message of what I think of you pancake lips.

[HairOfTheDog]

Give it up Mags. There will be NO morning nipple glimpses up in here. ')

[BigMark]

Afternoon?

[Maggot]

[Blindgreed1]

It doesn’t take bionic or even remedial interpretation skills to get your drift Maggot.

Got it.

I just re read what I wrote and it's not a subliminal message of what I think of you pancake nips.

Fixed.

[Duchess]

Moments ago House Republicans blocked a vote to set up a Select Committee on gun violence to study how to prevent future tragedies. There is zero interest in having a discussion regarding this issue. No talk about inforcing laws already on the books, no talk about assault weapons period.

[HairOfTheDog]

Moments ago House Republicans blocked a vote to set up a Select Committee on gun violence to study how to prevent future tragedies. There is zero interest in having a discussion regarding this issue. No talk about inforcing laws already on the books, no talk about assault weapons period.

Republicans have been blocking gun safety legislation and gun violence research funding for so damn long, I'm not surprised.

But, I think the party is going to be at a crossroads soon. Do they switch gears and support reasonable gun safety/control measures? Or, or do they continue to take the gun lobby money, fight against any and all gun-related legislation no matter how much the public wants it, and potentially lose more votes than they maintain and gain in so doing?

Personally, I think significantly fewer voters have confidence that the government is putting people's lives ahead of guns, gun money, and partisan politics. That could hurt Republicans in next year's congressional elections.

The increase in frequency and casualties of mass shootings is making gun safety/control a higher priority for people-oriented and issue-oriented voters of all parties, I suspect (and hope).

[Duchess]

Personally, I think significantly fewer voters have confidence that the government is putting people's lives ahead of guns, gun money, and partisan politics.

...because you pay attention to what's going on.

Why do I only see my errors after the fact. "inforcing". Really. Jesus.

[HairOfTheDog]

Related news I read this morning...

In last night's Virginia elections, the boyfriend of a journalist who was shot to death on the air was elected to the house of delegates. He ran on a platform which included gun safety/control and his campaign was sponsored by gun safety advocates. http://www.newsleader.com/story/news/201...842779001/

Bi-partisan legislation is reportedly being drafted to put pressure on the military, LE, mental health professionals.....to do what they're already supposed to be doing by reporting firearm-owning dis-qualifiers in NICS, so people like the Virginia Tech shooter and the Texas church shooter are denied during background checks.

That's not enough, but it's a start (IF Congress actually passes something meaningful) and I think it's something that the Republicans need to do in order not to lose portions of their base.

[HairOfTheDog]

Here's some Pew research results on public opinion related to gun laws by party.

There are many areas of gun policy that split the country, but majorities in both parties do come together to support several key gun control measures, according to a survey this spring from the Pew Research Center.

Broad majorities of more than eight in 10 Republicans and Democrats (and independents who lean toward each party) support blocking people who are mentally ill and people on federal no-fly or watch lists from buying guns.

Majorities also favor background checks for private and gun show sales, though the number of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents falls slightly to three in four on this potential policy.

And, though only by a slim margin among Republicans, majorities of both parties even back an assault weapons ban and creating a new federal database to track gun sales. (Support among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents for these priorities remains around eight in 10, creating a broad gap between the two parties' support.)

Still, polls also show that, when asked a general question about whether to create stricter gun laws, most Republicans oppose that direction, while most Democrats support it. Despite multiple high-profile mass shootings over the last decade, Congress has not passed recent gun control legislation.

Democrats are much more likely to see gun violence as a very big problem, according to Pew's findings.

Questions on increasing the availability of guns -- like allowing concealed carry in more places and allowing teachers in schools to carry -- received the support of majorities of Republicans, but only about a quarter of Democrats.

More: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/politics/b...index.html
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The survey was taken in the Spring, even before the Vegas and Texas mass shootings.

[HairOfTheDog]

It's sad that there needs to be new regulations/laws just to get governmental agencies to adhere-to and enforce existing regulations/laws. But, now that they're in control of all branches of government, Republicans are at least willing to do that (it seems).

In the aftermath of the mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, the second-ranking Senate Republican said Tuesday that Congress would begin working on legislation to tighten background-check compliances for gun purchases.

The proposal announced by Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the GOP whip, could become one of the rare times congressional Republicans have responded with legislative action following a shooting that caused mass casualties. Twenty-six people were killed when a gunman opened fire on Sunday church services.

"Obviously if things like this can happen in spite of the law, then we need to look at that and try to fix it as best we can," Cornyn said. "This seems to be an area where there is bipartisan support."

Officials said the gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, was wrongly able to purchase guns after the Air Force failed to report his domestic violence court-martial to an FBI database.

Republicans are considering ways to prevent mistakes or oversight in background checks, including offering incentives to states to comply.

"This man should not have gotten a gun," House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Tuesday.

Republicans pushed back against previous attempts to clamp down on gun purchases, particularly after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting that killed 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn.

(continued)

[HairOfTheDog]

After the nation's deadliest mass shooting, which left 58 dead when a gunman opened fire last month on a country music concert in Las Vegas, Congress, which is controlled by Republicans, backed off legislation from California Sen. Dianne Feinstein to ban the sale of "bump stock" devices that can turn rifles into automatic-style weapons like the shooter used in Nevada.

Republicans said they would prefer an administrative, rather than a legislative, fix for bump stocks, an approach favored by the National Rifle Assn.

Cornyn said Tuesday that he has asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on bump stock devices.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washingt...story.html
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Now, how about that universal background check supported by just about everyone but the NRA and the gun lobby (and the politicians they control)? I wish that was also part of the current attempt at bi-partisan gun control legislation.