must it always be politics vs policy?

yup.

OH NO BROWN PEOPLE

Excellent tag choice Cienna.

Yup.

Will the NRAACP do?

@5 It would do better if someone would fix the typos.

In other words Cienna, they're suggesting a resurgence of The Black Panthers...

They existed and were called the Black Panther Party. The FBI thoroughly destroyed them....

@7 and @8 beat me to it. Check out:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arch…

Goldy said it. It's based off that excellent podcast he suggested.

Also, please suggest more Podcasts, Slog

A child is seen as having problems for more than 10 years.

His parents, far from being the usual trailer folk, are well within the 2%.

He is a senior executive making six figures and probably more with stock.

She is upper middle class and gets gifted with a $700,000 house and a significant alimony income.

The father, mother and brother recognize the kid has problems.

Almost everyone in the town knew enough about Lanza so that when they heard what had happened most assumed it was him.

And yet...with all this wealth, no one did anything about it.

Could not the father have provided mental health care?

In home professionals?

And to make it worse, instead of mentioning mental health, and community perspicacity, an entire party sets off on a tangent to boost one of its pet issues.

Isn't it more than obvious how this person should have gotten mental health care...and that the resources were there in abundance?

Well, gun control has been historically racist.

http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/cramer…

@12: Indeed, unlike modern gun rights advocates...

@11 - All the more reason to keep an armory in your house, huh?

(let's blame the Mom, she should have seen this coming)

The silliest thing I've heard lately is the claim that guns don't kill people, humans do. Of course guns don't kill people, but the lack of responsibility of gun owners does. The demand for universal gun ownership without reasonable laws or controls of any kind creates a climate where any damaged soul feels it is their God-given right to redress their personal grievances against individuals and society, with a gun. If gun ownership is truly an inalienable right then perhaps we should forego the charade and hand them out to each person at birth and let the carnage continue. Cars don't kill people either but drunk drivers do, and we have laws to restrict those drivers and get them off the roads. There is probably more help for drunk drivers than there is for the mentally ill. And is it such a huge compromise to restrict assault weapons and extra round magazines? No hunter I know needs them. Hell, one shot with a scope-assisted, high-powered rifle will kill most big game without anyone even getting out of the blind hundreds of feet away. If you can't hit your target with one shot, you shouldn't be hunting. And if you can't hit a killer with a couple of shots, that person probably can hit you. Let's all stop blaming guns or pretending someone else is, and start taking responsibility for them. I'm sure the 20 children of Newtown would like to see at least that much progress from their ultimate sacrifices.

It's true, all gun owners are racist!