And dammit, they have to be ANSWERED!!!!

Checked! Challenged! Debated! Knocked thoroughly and decisively DOWN! And if somebody wants to motormouth and be rude and talk over everybody else and interrupt all over the place as it seems too many of the bad guys have now been taught to do, then YANK THEIR FREAKIN' MICS!!!! CUT 'EM OFF!!!!!!!! If I were hosting some show like that (or anywhere), I'd let the opposition know in no uncertain terms - up front, before anything started, that if they do that on MY airtime, they WILL be forced to stop. Physically and/or mechanically, if they refuse to play nice. So far better they shut themselves up and show some manners - otherwise I would not hesitate to do it, or have it done for them.

Shit, I'm in some kinda nasty mood today!

And how many Dems stood up and started roaring in outrage?

Or was this statement simply allowed to stand? Unchecked? Unchallenged? Unquestioned? Nobody threw a shit fit? Nobody made a stink about it?

Just stop and think for a moment. Some Dem makes some dumb statement - a la Kerry and putting "apartheid" and "Israel" in the same sentence. A freakin' firestorm of criticism rained down on him after that from the bad guys!!!!! WHY DOESN'T OUR SIDE EVER RESPOND LIKE THAT??????????

Welcome to DU, stone space!

Great to have you join us. But on a thread like this - AY-YI-YI... I'm so angry and outraged - I personally want to lock that asshole up and melt the key! After personally taking away ALL his fun little toys. And making sure all he sees are photographs of that kid - whom he killed in his own reckless arrogance and stupidity. Someone upthread posted a comment along the lines of - "but it (arrest, jail, penalties) won't bring that kid back." Okay then, what's the answer? So then we do nothing?

Welcome to DU, LakeVermilion!

Good to have you with us. The NRA... aw shit. Don't get me started.

+ another 1

million.

Welcome to DU, Damansarajaya!

Glad you're here. Those are all good starts. But how many times did they fail? I'm sorry, but I just don't buy the whole "good guys with guns" thing. Too much can go too wrong. Too FATALLY wrong. Too casually or momentarily thoughtlessly. And too damn quickly.

No way to shout that LOUD ENOUGH, 3catwoman3!!!

There's no way to shout that LOUD ENOUGH!!!!! You go ahead and shout. I'll be next to you, shouting too!

I'm not either, but a friend of ours died that way. She was very close friends with my son.

He regarded her as a mentor. Wonderful woman. Gifted. HUGELY empathetic and loving. Kind as could be. A great and supportive friend. Always there for you if you needed it. And one fine day she shot her nephew dead, point-blank, and then turned the gun on herself. We never fully understood why. SOMETHING made her snap. She'd lived on a ranch out in the sticks for years, did all the heavy lifting shoulder-to-shoulder with her family. Was very capable and trained with firearms and shotguns. They went hunting and it was something common throughout that rural area. Lived around it all her life, from when she was a child. She knew how to handle it. She was highly experienced and schooled and took all such weapons very seriously. Until one fine day something made her snap. YES, IT CAN HAPPEN even to the so-called "good guys with guns." She was absolutely, certifiably a good-guy type from the get-go. And yet something made her snap. She was the last person on earth I'd ever imagine that happening to, AND IT HAPPENED.

I don't care HOW experienced people may be with guns, how much they profess to be experts, how vociferously they insist that they're cautious, how they declare without any doubt that they know what they're doing and know how to handle guns and how to store them safely and all that. And all that. And all that. I don't care!!! I don't care WHO HERE will argue with me about how people have a right to own as many guns as they want and they pose no threat and it's some vaporous imaginary bad guy over there who's the problem and home security and blah blah blah. IT HAPPENS. And my son is forever marred by that. As am I. Don't give ME any of that 2nd-Amendment-is-sacred crap! Just don't even start with me. You won't get anywhere, and you absolutely will not change my mind.

Dear God! You do NOT point ANY gun at ANY person! EVER!!!

Shit - I've been to shooting ranges myself, and I have heard that MANY times there. I hope they throw the book at this asshole! And line his prison cell with photos of the innocent boy he killed!

Unfortunately not to a whole lotta gullible, low-information voters out there.