Biden wants to end gun-maker liability protections. That could sink the industry, advocates say.

Good. If ever there was an industry that deserved to be sunk like the Bismark, it’d be the murder-dependent gun industry.

You know, I grew up shooting guns. I was in the army, too. I’m a better shot and more competent with a gun than any of you reading this. And I just don’t think most people should be allowed to have guns. An armed society is not a polite society, and politesse at gunpoint isn’t real anyway.

Want a gun? Fine. Get a single-shot bolt action hunting rifle and keep it locked up in a third-party armory until you want to use it (just like we did in the army, btw!). Solved.

Need more gun than that? Permits out the wazoo and GPS tracking 24/7, and huge liability insurance required. Also solved.

When you go to a store and look around, so many Americans are obviously unhealthy (and not from Covid). Even non-elderly folks, half of them are shambling around like they just got trampled by bison. It’s become normalized but if you clear your brain for a second and think about it, this is just deeply odd. And disturbing.

Even in my lifetime it was not this way. It’s really gotten worse in the last few decades. When so many people are visibly unwell and debilitated, it’s no surprise that Covid’s mortality rate is so high. Many people have two feet and one arm in the grave already.

We need more hype for this vaccine. Less hype for (relatively minor) side effects.

More hype for safely getting back to normal. Less hype for doom and gloom isolation/mask scolding post vaccine. https://t.co/lIr3l1osfv

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) April 8, 2021

Another tweet related to the below. But a liberal not scolding? Not gonna happen. It’s what many of them live for! I wonder how many of them have actually loved the pandemic because it gave them so many opportunities for finger-wagging, preaching, and pointless nagging?

The news every day should be like the vaccine saved 10k lives compared to a few months ago!!! Instead they’re like “fourth wave” DOOM over what in wider context is really an enormous improvement

— Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ (@schmangee) April 8, 2021

Yep. Huge, huge fucking mistake here. The fourth wave is more a bit of rise than a wave (in the US), and the vaccine is working. Mortality has dropped enormously, especially in the age groups most vaccinated, and we’re effectively fighting the virus.

This should be what’s emphasized. Instead, we’re discouraging vaccine uptake by making it appear pointless to get. How do we fail at this repeatedly? Never seem to get any better.