proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Nope , but he kept calling me sir for a while until I told him I was she!

archie bunker Loc: Texas

He meant no disrespect I'm sure. At least you're not a "Punk"!

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

I know that Archie!! He stood up for me more than I care to remember !!! Where is he BTW ???

archie bunker Loc: Texas

He's on vacation with his wife in God's country. West Texas!

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Good for him!! Do you ever communicate with him? If yes,say hello from me,please!

working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

You won't be the first....find out when Walmart is having a pajama party, then you'll be part of the new normal. LOL.

I do have hopes of meeting you one day. Retirement is coming up in a couple of years and I've promised myself a major road trip out west. Palo Duro Canyon is on the list. As is Shiner with nachos. No imported beer for me, thanks, as long as there's good local.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Ah, the canyon! Beautiful place! I haven't been there in a few years, but spent my life roaming it. Both public, and private areas. Both of my kids live in what is the Northern beginnings of it.
It's funny, you're driving on flat ground, then hit something like a 7% grade going downhill into the area where they live.
It's rough, rocky, craggy, with a live creek, and wildlife galore.
And we can definitely do Shiner!!

John316 Loc: Wisconsin

You seem to be a misguided individual. I’ll pray for you.

iFrank Loc: San Antonio

deb maybe short for debbie, I think she's a girl. Probably dropped on her head when she was a child. Poor thing. Wow didn't realize it went that far.

teabag09

You need to apply for suppressors. Not TV quiet but may not scare away the pride allowing you to get most of them. .556 does a number on cotes. Mike

JohnCorrespondent

Thanks. My interpretation of this latimes article is:

(1) Many (probably most, I'd now guess it's more than 80%) mass shootings are done for personal, not political, reasons. That was also said in at least one of the sources I had listed. This is something I didn't know when I had started. When I started I thought that a larger proportion of mass shootings in the last few years were more a kind of Trump-supporter-related phenomenon. So maybe it's a much smaller proportion of them.

(2) It does (very likely) sometimes happen for political reasons on both sides of the political spectrum (not saying it's evenly divided though); one of the examples did have at least one emphatic indicator that a socialist did a mass shooting and claimed some socialism-related reason (though, _even_then_, it may not have been the main underlying reason for that mass shooting).

(3) Some mass shootings appear inspired by, or in agreement with, Trump's public rhetoric; though that still may not be the main reasons for those mass shootings.

And:

(4) Among prominently visible politicians (e.g., Sanders, Warren, Trump), Trump displays rhetoric the more likely (probably by far the most likely) to inspire wrongful violence.

One could make the (rather weak) argument that rhetoric should never be blamed for anything, or that spiteful or degrading words (such as some of Trump's) should never be blamed for anything.

One could also make the similarly weak argument that there is _no_ cause-and-effect relationship anywhere.

son of witless

Welcome, I hope you are more intelligent than our native OPP Never Trumpers. I look forward to your future posts.

bilordinary Loc: SW Washington

We may have reached a new low with this one.

zombinis3 Loc: Southwest

OR basically someone gets bent out of shape and wants to kill someone but in the end dosen't want to take responsibility for their actions and brings up whatever is available.

son of witless

Please do not scare him away.