K Ludwick @kludwick@qoto.org

So the world’s smartest man is out there, doing the sort of stuff that the world’s smartest man does.

Everybody knows he’s the world’s smartest man, because he’s the world’s richest man—though maybe not anymore, but let’s table that quibble, because these things are difficult to track, and whatever his ranking, he’s possessed of a wealth inherited from the wreckage of an apartheid state that he’s now grown into a boodle as massive and indestructible as a continent.

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-worlds-smartest-man-doesnt-want

A sweeping national gun reform bill should be considered the compromise position, to be pursued if gun defenders become interested in compromise. Until then, the goal should be a total national ban of the manufacture and sale of all firearms and ammunition.

Since gun defenders are currently not interested in compromise at all, no compromise should be sought. Gun defenders should be told, should they ever want to compromise, the offer is a sweeping national gun reform bill. We'll compromise.