The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Our Neighbors

Rather, we anticipate confrontations where the government isn’t there — or simply doesn’t show up in time.

The government isn’t there because they’re busily drowning it in a bathtub.

On happier news threadjack: Cute pictures of President Dad in my burg of Decatur, Georgia with preschool kids here.

Wayne spends too much time in the echo chamber and has completely lost the ability to communicate to others outside of his base.

Fun fact: Feinstein’s staffers were drawing up the list of what to include in her assault weapons ban bill last year, according to the Washington Post.

@redmanlaw: There’s an argument to be made that assault weapons are getting a disproportionate share of attention, given the small percentage of their use in violent crimes.

There’s also an argument to be made — by Twentieth-Century Wayne, no less — that universal background checks are a reasonable measure without infringing on rights. (Setting aside the futility of arguing over what the Second Amendment actually means.)

A responsible NRA spokesman — instead of an industry lackey — could actually move the national conversation to some kind of provisional consensus: Let’s try this, see what happens, revisit the subject later. But as long as Wayne is spouting off like a madman (and blocking various statistical investigations), it ain’t gonna happen.

@nojo:

Indeed – what we get instead from LaPierre is dark hints about how universal registration / background checks lead directly to the UN confiscating guns, Agenda 21, sapping and impurifying our precious bodily fluids, etc.

My favorite was the brief pivot to “hey guize we should register all the crazy people”, as if that would do anything relevant given the private-sale loophole.

They have a “mass determination” to stockpile.

Why doesn’t Wayne argue for arming the queens in Ess Eff for the post-earthquake zombie apocalypse that will be unleashed in the Castro because it’s one of the few hoods built on serpentine versus fill/sand? We’re going to be overrun by the dot-com geeks fleeing their South of Market condos and the Marina chicks whose apartments collapsed.

@rptrcub: Thank you for making my day, sunshine.

@SanFranLefty and Cubbie: He has beautiful hands. I noticed that when I saw SOTU pictures. Those hands…

And no I’m not bitter that I’m spending yet another Valentine’s Day alone with high carb food. Saw my secret crush make off with a chick at lunchtime. Hopes dashed. Yeah, you don’t shit where you eat, but still. He has nice ears.

While walking to the grocery store tonight I saw a couple celebrating Valentine’s Day with some one-on-one basketball. Cutest damn thing I saw all day (Obama working a room of preschoolers is a close second).

@mellbell: Like. Oh, basketball.