In the vast majority of firearm fatalities the victim is known to the assailant.  The odds on coming under fire from the sort of horrors experienced over the weekend (I was washing and waxing my airplane, so I saw none of it until Sunday evening, thankfully) are so small to be considered by most mathematicians to be zero.  Carriage of a firearm specifically for this contingency is ludicrous.

Take heed.  The more of these massacres we're required to withstand, the closer we move toward real firearm control, whatever that might look like.  The day you honestly have to worry about a massacre you'll likely be without your firearm, as they will have been outlawed long before.  Frightened people have never been credited with particularly good judgment.  I think the forearm community should seriously think about policing who gets a gun, because if they don't someone will.  And the forearm community won't like it.

And before you start going on about the Constitution I will remind you that Constitutional amendments can and have been repealed.

I would also remind you that most people firing weapons under duress do a lot of missing.  That includes highly trained folks like soldiers and cops.

\Steingar, have you ever shot a firearm?  Ever?

I went to pay my property tax bill today at the County building. Had to remove watch, belt, wallet, phone, etc. to walk through a metal detector for the privilege of paying their salaries. And this is in the most Republican county in Wisconsin.

We have truly lost sight of government “of, by, and for the people.”  Next politician that tells me he is a public servant, I’m going to punch him in the nose.

So he shouldn't stand up for the Black population of Baltimore by calling out their Congressman?  Hmmmm.  BTW, what was the $18B spent on in Cummings district?