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Exactly how is the info "slanted"? It's firearms deaths by state, and political affiliation of their legislatures. It's all very straightforward information. What part do you not believe?

Is it any shock coming from a guy whose last name sounds so much like both "Gomer" and "Goober"?

Saw this and immediately felt the need to put this table together, ranked by 2020 firearm mortality rate, and using color-coding to show just how weighted to one party the problem really is. I'm being generous by including governors here because the gun legislation comes from the state houses and senates, and not out of the governor's mansion.

Republicans could hardly be doing a better job trying to drive talented people out of their states and steer their economies into the shitter if they reinstated Jim Crow laws.

If we were playing a Kremlin Talking Points drinking game, I would have been dead of alcohol poisoning before finishing reading this post.

That's one way to approach it. I'm not sure how much they put into it now. They would also need to put resources into stopping straw purchase sales, as well as identifying unscrupulous or corrupt legally-licensed gun dealers who flout the law now and certainly would then.

I understand that some folks here are now thinking that I believe higher taxes on guns and ammo is stupid and will never work, even though I never said as much. I don't think that. I do believe that guns should be expensive and hard to obtain. All I'm saying is that if taxes on guns and ammo go up by a whole lot, they're going to have to deal with the dramatic expansion of the black market that is practically certain to occur in its wake. You could probably say the same thing about making it harder to buy guns, something I totally support as well. If they decided to make buying a gun a lot harder by enacting measures like stricter acquisition standards or mandatory gun education or renewable licensing or anything along those lines, I believe that even if they were to not raise the price of guns by a single penny, the black market would dramatically expand under that circumstance as well.

Jack up the taxes on guns and ammo and a lot more people are going to be motivated to find out how to get a cheaper gun on the black market.

The higher the taxes, the worse it would get.

Super high taxes would make it even worse because then ordinary clean people with jobs would start gravitating to the black market for guns, instead of going to the local gun store and paying all those taxes.

Either that or you would have to raise teacher pay by 10K or 20K on average to convince men who like carrying guns to become teachers.

The only real problem I can think of with super high taxes on guns or ammo would be a thriving black market in stolen guns and ammo.

I don’t see how you get a workforce that is 75% women to agree to arm themselves in preparation for working with children all day. Arming teachers is an intellectually and morally bankrupt idea that is dead in the water. Besides, what good is arming teachers gonna do, anyway? The entire Uvalde police department was not only armed, but purportedly trained in engaging active shooters, and look how much good that did.

We’ve always had such kooks around us, but one big difference now is that instead of living in their basements and going into the woods and distributing unhinged propaganda through hand-made pamphlets, now they can get a nice condo in the suburbs and clean themselves up and put on makeup and go into a nice studio with an impressive greenscreen and distribute unhinged propaganda through videos.

What can be done to prevent mass shootings? Hmmmmm …

It had not occurred to me that the point here was to propagate and legitimize a counter-narrative about Trump and Russia, versus an honest attempt to convict Sussmann, but knowing these people and who their backers are, it makes total sense.

Your Outlook will play nice with Google from now on and you will find the less secure apps setting is already disabled (in fact, disappeared). Here is the link to this same thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/outlook/gmail-less-secure-apps-being-locked-down/m-p/3280433/highlight/true#M11009

Do you use Microsoft Outlook to download your Gmails? I do. Did you lose access to that ability today? I did. For the past decade or so, if you wanted to use Outlook for your Gmails, you had to allow your Google account access to "less secure apps" which, apparently, Microsoft Outlook is one. That's risky, I guess, because if you allow that for one app, you allow it for all, and hackers could etc etc. Starting today, Google is no longer allowing that. Google actually sent an email last month saying that we might lose this access as of May 30. (They apparently gave us a couple of extra days grace on it.) Rather, Google would prefer you use 2-step verification, that kind you see when you attempt to log into something on whatever device and then you get a text to your phone with an additional verification code to complete the login. Secure, perhaps, but also a pain in the butt. However, neither Google nor Microsoft even sent a workaround on using Outlook. It would be completely impractical for you to use a second verifying code every time you wanted to download mail. I tried calling Microsoft because I am a 365 subscriber, but they've shit-canned all their support phone reps and pushed everything to online support which, as everyone knows, is practically always insufficient when you need someone to tell you what the hell just happened. BUT: I just happened to stumble across a forum thread describing how to get around this new barrier, and so far, it works great. It's a bit of a pain to set up, but if you want to keep using Outlook for your Gmail—and I sure do, since I have over ten years of email history for ten separate Gmail accounts attached to it—then you have no choice. So, long story short (or tl;dr, as the kids of 2009 say), here's the process to reconnect your Outlook to your Gmail: Google Help Center 2-Step Verification > Signing in with 2-Step Verification > Sign in with App Passwords Login to Gmail Account: "myaccount.google.com" On left, choose "Security" Enable 2 step verification. You will need a cell phone or access to some other device for verification codes. Afterward, click on the back arrow to get back to Security home page Having done that now app passwords will appear under 2-step verification click app passwords click select app and select mail click select device and select windows computer click generate and a 16 digit code will appear like so: #### #### #### #### highlight and copy to clipboard go to Microsoft Outlook and paste that code into your password line, which you will be prompted for click on remember and save

Not to lean on the whole "it was a different time" thing, but he was a politician in Texas in the 1940s, so it was rather expected to a certain degree.

The clue to determining the win value of outs above average might be in the way they calculate it. They determine out probability on a given play and reward or ding you based on that. For example, a fielder who successfully completes a 25% Out Probability play gets +.75 outs above average; one who fails to make the play gets -.25. Marry that information with a play’s leverage index, add up all the plays throughout a season, and you’re probably pretty far down to road to runs prevented or allowed, which can then be translated to wins.

I can think of some potential confederates of his who would know.

Not all of it. Maybe not even enough of it.

I wouldn’t bet real, actual money that Tump helped mastermind some elaborate scheme to strategically steal votes in swing states to put him over the top despite losing the popular vote.

Whenever some right winger does get caught on audio dropping an N bomb, I’ll lay 10:1 that Fox will invoke the First Amendment while defending them from the woke mob.

I saw the Tigers clobber Clemens in Detroit in 1987. I was behind the plate about nine rows up in the Time Inc seats. Might have been my first-ever free game courtesy of a media vehicle, because of my job. Great memory.