Which has been a rarity of late.  Still, here she’s on her game: In a nonsense “study” going around the Internet right now, Mother Jones magazine claims to have produced its own study of all public shootings in the last 30 years and concludes: “In not a single case was the killing stopped by a civilian using a gun.” This will come as a shock to people who know something

So they argue in a press release: NEA President Dennis Van Roekel and AFT President Randi Weingarten react to proposals by Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, and William Bennett to arm teachers as a way to prevent school violence. “Our duty to every child is to provide safe and secure public schools. That is the vow we take as educators. It is both astounding and disturbing that

Only, he doesn’t really mean we we.  Because “we” get it wrong.  And how can he teach us all how to live correctly if he isn’t given the latitude to do exactly the opposite of what most of us want done? (h/t palaeomerus)

I know I probably shouldn’t have done it — especially because yesterday was a snowy day with the temperature here in Colorado dipping well below freezing — but on a whim I took all my guns and ammunition out in a small skiff on one of the nearby lakes and, sad to say, the boat capsized when I stupidly tried to prove to myself that I could do it Gangnam

Or, “Introduction to tyranny, disguised as populism, and aided by state propaganda”. Reuters: Unburdened by re-election worries and empowered by law to act without Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama could take action to improve background checks on gun buyers, ban certain gun imports and bolster oversight of dealers. Prospects for gun control legislation intensified in the wake of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, as more pro-gun rights lawmakers said

3 State Department officials resign, a recuperating Hillary never testifies, Americans are Islamophobes, etc. Now, can we please stop wasting time worrying about what the President did or didn’t know and did or didn’t do? That’s just racist. And besides, we have weapons of war we need taken off the street. For the children. (h/t sdferr)