j.r. leonard

Now I feel that, sure, but when I was a Republican, I felt totally un-conflicted. I was an economic conservative, and I firmly believed that mattered way more than the social stuff. It never felt like a piece of my soul. It felt like round-off error on stuff that didn't matter

You didn't fret at all about deficits?

I did! That was among the things that started my break

Just so I'm clear here, we're upset that Obama pretty accurately described how unbelievably easy it is to get a gun?

Gun laws vary, mostly by density. NY and CA have very different gun laws than AK and WY. Most Americans live somewhere where there are significant regulations on owning and keeping guns. In many cities, it’s effectively impossible

Counterpoint: gun laws are extremely lax, both allowing widespread gunownership and enabling catastrophic outcomes.

That depends entirely on where you live, which makes Obama’s statements false. If you want to get postmodern and say it’s not factually correct but it hints at a deeper truth, fine. I guess

It does not depend entirely upon where you live. Guns are widely and easily available to almost everybody at practically any time. If they were in fact difficult to get, there wouldn't be hundreds of millions of them floating around. And this, in a nutshell, is the problem.