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Night Sky with Sissy Spacek and JK Simmons is excellent IMO. It's a slow burn but is so much more than just a Sci Fi series

And, according to an attendee at the NRA conference, it's also down to the breakdown of the American family, untreated mental illness, bullying on social media, violent video games and the inexplicable existence of “evil.” And, yes it is all quite depressing

This was taken inside the NRA meeting currently being held in Houston. When the second amendment was written a musket shot one bullet and took about 30 seconds to reload.

It is disgusting. Another disgusting thing is that historically after mass gun shootings the sale of guns in the US always increases. Some Americans now saying that in the Ukraine invasion the first thing the Russians did was to take away the weapons of Ukrainians, therefore Americans have...

Looks like Donald will have to spill the beans https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/nyregion/trump-letitia-james-ny.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20220527&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=headline&regi_id=56564702&segment_id=93540&user_id=4180feebac29b9e10fe3e6db6d77bd2c

The assumption is that the queen does not meddle in the nation's affairs. Depending on your point of view it would seem from the article that she may have crossed the line from lobbying to meddling. 'Did she stop a Government doing things she didn't like?' - Well, yes she did. She lobbied the...

But it would appear that may not always be the case. Although the queen's consent is deemed to be a mere formality it would seem that she may have used her position to influence legislation on occasion. Yes, I know it's the crazy left wing Guardian writing this but it still made me think...

I forgot thick as pigshit, but that would be stereotyping

I'm waiting to see if Private Eye do some "Congratulations Brenda on your Platinum Jubilee" stuff

An awful lot of gun owners in the States tend to be obese, out of work, divorced, god fearing angry men - or losers. Owning a gun seems to give them some sort of deluded belief that they are still an alpha male

As well as the gangster roles he was also a very good comedian. I remember seeing him in a movie with Sigourney Weaver who was playing a con woman with her daughter. Forgot the name of it but he was very funny.

Exactly, there should be fixed terms for the Supreme Court justices just as there are for the President

The NRA is having its annual meeting in Houston this weekend It is anticipated that the Supreme Court will shortly overturn a law in New York which has heavily restricted who can carry a gun in public for 108 years. So, business as usual

An American friend told me it really hit her when one day her 6 year old daughter came home from school and told her they had been asked to practice what to do if there should ever be an 'active shooter' in the school. In the rest of the world kids practice fire drills should the worst ever...

There has also been a huge rise in ghost guns which can be legally purchased on line. These are guns which are supplied in parts and sent by post where they are assembled by the purchaser. They have no serial number so are untraceable

Every time there is an incident like this all the news channels spend hours pontificating on the motive - crazy loner, bullied kid, white supremacist etc. They always ignore the elephant in the room, the means, the ridiculously easy access to guns and assault rifles. I remember going into a...

This is very true. The Sandy Hook tragedy would indeed have been a turning point in most other countries but in the States the second amendment trumps all other considerations. It is clear that change will never come at a Presidential or Federal level but individual States can make a...

Two scariest things in America are religion and guns. Praise the lord and pass the ammunition

New series of Stranger Things starts on the 27th, first 3 series were very good