Unironically, yeah. Daughter from a very anti-gun country comes to visit, it’s practically required to drag her down to a shooting range and prove that the 2A is fun.

My father-in-law insisted I go shooting with him the moment he found out I was one of those filthy gun-grabber liberals. I managed to survive the experience because he knew how to handle the weapons from years of experience. We had a great time putting a bunch of holes in paper targets, ended the night with a beer, and the whole time I got an earful of “See? See? Guns are great! You should be pro-guns!”

It’s a shame our registered Democrats don’t actually vote.

A truly crazy thing to say, given the systematic voter disenfranchisement the state suffers from.

There was a seven hour long line to vote in one of Houston’s bluest districts. This story was further complicated, when the last person to vote in this line was targeted by the state’s AG for prosecution.

When Hervis Rogers went viral on social media for being the last person in line at Texas Southern University to cast a vote at 1 a.m. on Super Tuesday, he was applauded as a tenacious, civic-minded man who worked hard to exercise his right to vote.

Now, Rogers is being prosecuted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office for allegedly voting illegally while on parole.

The arrest came just one day before the Texas Legislature convened on Thursday to begin a special session, where a controversial voting bill is on the agenda. Republicans in favor of new voting restrictions point to cases like Rogers’ as proof of an insecure system. However, there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Another notable case was a woman who cast a provisional ballot while out on parole. She was hit with a five-year prison sentence, which took years to overturn.

Democrats want people in Texas to vote? Maybe Biden’s DOJ should have decriminalized Voting While Black within the state, while he had that power.

They went into the bedroom so he could show her a Glock 9mm semi-automatic handgun which he kept in the bedside cabinet.

Harrison said he had bought the gun a couple of years before because he wanted a “sense of security” for his family.

He denied ever discussing it with his daughter before.

He said: “As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell.”

So, Glocks don’t have a manual safety. And dipshit amateur gun owners who don’t like a heavy trigger pull will periodically modify (or simply buy a modified) version of the weapon with a light trigger. This makes the gun easy to misfire. Add to that, the habit of paranoid owners keeping the gun loaded and chambered, because they think cocking a gun is the difference between life or death.

Very real possibility this was an accident or - at most - involuntary manslaughter on behalf of the father.

Littler said on the morning of 10 January his partner had asked her father during the Trump row: “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?”

Kris Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much.

Littler said Lucy became “quite upset” and ran upstairs.

As someone who lives in Texas and knows this exact kind of person, the elements laid out in the article make it sound like this guy was a clueless, tactless asshole who thought he could just laugh and hand-wave his way through a political conversation. His daughter is dead because he was treating his gun like a toy, not because he was in some kind of heated argument over Trump.

Concentration camps

Curious how no major mainstream publication is talking about this. Almost as though the major media outlets are complicit in keeping the President - a notorious cable news hog - in the dark.

When I was living in apartments, the nicer spots would have big community fire pits in between blocks. They were great for mixing and mingling with other apartment residents, especially during the holidays or weekends with good weather.

One of the more annoying parts of being a home owner right now is getting people over to your place and finding places for all their cars. So much easier when everyone just kinda lives in the same two or three blocks and can walk over to catch a show or BBQ or play board games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_listening

Really helps both the person talking and the person listening stay engaged. You’re encouraging the speaker to focus on the parts of the conversation you find interesting. They’re receiving feedback, so they know what they’re saying is being valued and encouraged.

They look like a good idea until you have to vacuum.

Why do you think Bill was always sending down all that lotion?

Who is holding the camera?

They’re wealthy, but not white

The first thing a Global Power Europe does is invade and colonize North Africa.

The rest of Europe is circling Ukraine like a wake of vultures

I mean, you joke. But compare Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea right now. One of them has absolutely no fear of a US invasion.

Liberty protects but does not bind

Tyranny binds but does not protect

Heterosexuality.

Not even once.

I believe that I can go to the store and purchase a sense of security. Once I own a gun, I can indulge in revolutionary fantasies that aren’t complicated by material conditions.

Safety is just another thing we’ve commoditized. No need to struggle against my own alienation or form coalition with my neighbors.

It’s religious mythology built atop historical cultural standards. Arguing over the age at which a literal angel impregnated a virgin is fucking absurd and has nothing to do with modern morals either inside or outside the religious traditions predicated on it.

Two-thousand years later, members of this same Christian faith have overhauled both the cultural and legal standards for marriage around the globe. Meanwhile, outspoken atheists like Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss ended up all over the Epstein Files, despite unburdening themselves of archaic religious dogma.

Mary was 13 when she gave birth to Jesus.

There is absolutely no verifiable documentation of Jesus’s birth, much less Mary’s age at the time of pregnancy. Might as well complain about the ages of Alcmene or Deichtine.

This kind of rhetoric is playing straight into the magical realism of the biblical literalists. Next, you’re going to start accusing Adam and Eve of incest.