Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@qoto.org

@HeatherInNZ my wife did the same yesterday. She was plenty cold by the time she finished scooping hail out of her flowerpots with her bare hands.

@drewharwell That little paragraph is every bit as chilling as the "baby shoes for sale" story. Just so hard to imagine how incredibly, uniquely horrible the situation is in America.

@chadloder True. I suspect that generalizes to basically all murder (with some very rare exceptions).

Would I prefer he shot some neo-Nazis protesting at a library having drag artists read books? Probably?

But most of all I'd to think the USA could go back to being a rational democracy where actual reasoned debates based in Reality might be possible.

@brendannyhan The secret to never being disappointed with failure is to Never Try In The First Place.

@NoahH @chadloder Sorry for not including my source. It was this. And there, of course, really is a manifesto as well (per this reporting). https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/27/nashville-covenant-school-shooting-female-shooter/11551363002/

@NoahH @chadloder I won't hold my breath.

@chadloder This (Nashville) school shooter is, of course, being reported as a trans man.

The last time the NRA was a huge supporter of gun restrictions (the turn of the 20th century), it was because black people were starting to be armed and fighting back, and the NRA good ol' white boys didn't want that.

Maybe the spin this time is that the trans folks are starting to fight back. It's basically inevitable that they would. It's a shitty way to get the GOP bigots to care about gun restrictions, but maybe we'll just take the win if we can get it.

@freemo This is the very silliest of whataboutism, and judging by the replies, it seems to have served its purpose. It easily gets people off of discussing the very real problem of US gun violence (which is utterly different than nearly every other country in the world), and instead discussing whether or not people struck by lightning knew it was happening before it did.

Bravo. That's whataboutism at its best.

@mmasnick I bailed out of that place and never looked back, but... is it even possible to block him anymore?