by the Washington Post Editorial Board, April 22, 2022
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is a paper by Lee Drutman for the Niskanen Center, April 2022 (PDF, 15 pages of text)
Work with me on this one.
The Brooklyn shooter turned himself in to police:
James may have called police on himself, sources told ABC News. Among the calls to NYPD Crime Stoppers was reportedly someone who said: "I think you’re looking for me. I’m seeing my picture all over the news, and I’ll be around this McDonalds."
James allegedly gave his name and a description of what he was wearing, according to sources. He said his phone battery was dying and he would be either in the McDonald's charging his phone or out front, according to sources.
I have a theory that wayward people, mostly men (although some women), are doing mass shootings this regularly because it is a ticket out of a lonely, isolated society that isn't working for them. It may just be a much more tragic version of this phenomenon.
If that is true, guns need to be taken out of the equation ASAP, so that people do this in a much less harmful manner.
If society is so unbearable and difficult for someone to do this in order to intentionally be apprehended, then we majorly need to rethink how society is functioning. We used to have mental institutions, a military draft, monestaries, etc. and all sorts of institutions for wayward people to go in to. We should bring those back.
"without loopholes." The House Administration Committee had a hearing on the issue last week.
@ Politico's Congress Minutes, 7 hrs. ago NOTE MY UNDERLINING
What happened: A bipartisan group of rank-and-file members, spanning the political spectrum, isn't letting up on their push to ban lawmakers from owning or trading stocks while in office.
Their asks: The members asked the House Administration Committee, which convened a hearing last week on the issue, to quickly advance a bill with three elements. Read their letter.
- Have the ban apply to spouses and dependent children.
- Don't permit an exception for stocks acquired prior to coming to Congress.
- Effective enforcement and "significant fines" to deter lawmakers from violating the ban. [....]
Who signed? The group ranged from progressives like Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) to conservatives like Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and frontliners like Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn. [....]
The containers piling up in China will eventually create massive congestion in the US