Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

@ravenonthill @briannawu I can tell you right now that his legend has spread across the nation in the Republican party.

And I say "his legend" for a reason. None of the facts have propagated. They don't know anything he's actually done. They just know him as a "fighter for conservatism" who pisses off libs and isn't quite as much of a screw-up as Trump, and that's enough for them.

@dangillmor @juddlegum Wait, we're supposed to start worrying about third party candidates now? Lol.

@Teri_Kanefield I think some part of him knows that the moment the perp walk photos hit, he fully loses his tenuous control over his reputation.

@TomWellborn@universeodon.com @DCR Maybe from your perspective. But from my perspective, it highlights and satirizes the inability of anti-gun activists to fully grasp the issues they attempt to discuss.
In that sense, it does actually provoke some laughter.

But the reason I'm taking issue with this line of reasoning is because, as a gun owner, I believe that this country does need some national common sense gun control laws. Only, I don't think we'll ever get any, because anti-gun activists keep (pardon the pun) shooting themselves in the foot by misrepresenting arguments.

The satire you posted *could* have taken these factors into account... and been all the better for it. Instead, it essentially made a straw-man out of the opposing argument so it had an easier target to hit, thus severely weakening its own impact.

@TomWellborn@universeodon.com I wasn't taking it literally. I was criticizing it as satire. It doesn't hold up to the issue it's satirizing.

@TomWellborn@universeodon.com @DCR It's a foolish analogy, though, because even those who believe "more guns" will solve the problem typically agree that someone who commits murder with a gun should have that gun taken away.

@rhsjack @TomWellborn@universeodon.com You don't even need the red hat brigade. I'm a card-carrying democrat and I still call bullshit on it.
We don't just "let" people hit others with hammers. There are consequences. That the teacher in this analogy fails to even try enacting any consequences causes the whole rhetorical exercise to collapse.

@BrennanCenter You also covering the amount they're spending on text spam to out-of-state party registrants?

@skrishna Why are they jumping from sub-orbital fly-by in A2 to a full landing in A3? Wouldn't achieving orbit around the moon be an important intermediate step (like it was before)?

@Popehat Wait, I thought DAs love it when defendants won't shut up about the case in public?
Doesn't it typically give them more ammo?
Why would they want to shut him up?