I don't understand why we're not making any progress with our homelessness crisis. We're studying it as hard as we possibly can! Maybe we can create a committee to investigate why this is the case?

Even the NRA is against bump stocks: https://home.nra.org/joint-statement

@1 what’s the alternative? Just impose poorly considered plans? So people like you can then whine and bitch that politicians didn’t think shit through?

Homelessness is a complex and expensive problem. It’s also a dynamic. So solutions have to be adaptive. That requires constant study.

This “bold decision making, shoot-from-the-hip” great decider thing is not based in reality. Life isn’t a sitcom that resolves neatly in half an hour.

Without massive systemic changes out of the scope of a single city you’re not going to “solve” homelessness. The best you can hope is mitigation and impacting a few people’s lives where you can. And guess what? These committees actually do help people. No thanks to you.

That story of the Harvey-fleeing couple from Texas, while heartwarming, reeks of privilege. Most people who are forced to leave their homes don't get to just fuck off and plop themselves into one of the most expensive retirement homes in one of the most expensive cities in the country. It's great that they have resources and supportive children to help, but the story could use perspective on the many, many other people who aren't currently Ubering around the city when they're not collecting Amazon Fresh deliveries.

@2 Very few in the gun community are against banning bump stocks. They're ultimately viewed as a novelty that has no practical application to either the spirit of the second amendment or to true shooting sports. There is, however, some concern that because of the way this bill is written that it may outlaw certain modifications that are more important.

For instance, it is extremely common for individuals to replace the triggers that came with their guns with more high-quality triggers. High quality triggers allow for more accurate shooting without allowing the user to achieve anything close to automatic fire. That is the concern with this particular bill. Very few individuals actually care about bump stocks.

I'm not sure if it was the intended reference, but "Time Bandits" is a Terry Gilliam film.

NHK is the Japanese National Broadcaster, not Korean.

@4. Shut up, hater.

@8: you have brought this point up previously. has seattle explicitly rejected those practices? what's different between seattle's approach and the USICH?

you seem to know a lot about it, but I doubt your flippant assessment is the actual reason.

upon purchase of a gun....one must have his or her foot shot....to accept what that tool does to flesh to others lives...all guns stores must have a foot step..where you place your right foot...strapped down and the weapon purchases loaded and put in a brace that the bullet is fired directly thru the foot...and caught behind by ample methods...a tending physcial will sew up the wound and off you go..YOU WILL THINK TWICE ABOUT AIMING THE GD DEATH TOOL IN SOMEONE ELSE DIRECTION...PUSSY AMERICANS> YES IT APPEARS SO.

@14 I know right? We could run over their foot as a warning to watch for peds, plus maybe waterboard them a bit to increase their awareness of sea level rise due to fossil fuel consumption.

I'm not sure where people get the idea that mass murder would go away via the removal of firearms, or even that we have enough of a police state to remove guns from anyone but the most cooperative, law-abiding people who were never the trouble anyway. Las Vegas dude could just as easily have crashed his private plane into the concert, or rented a commercial truck and plowed down a pedestrian mall like they do in Europe. Arson is caveman-level technology that's still deadly. A free society means a tiny percent of people use that freedom to do really evil shit, especially now that it buys them a week and a half of fame.

Notes for Nathalie:
1) There's a world o' difference between Dungeness crabbing and Deadliest Catch.
2) Delta set out a long while back to assimilate or destroy Alaska as it has other regional carriers. It'll probably succeed, but Alaska is putting up a good fight - including the Virgin move and the Paine Field move.