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Speaking of Gary Johnson, he took a lot of flak for his Aleppo moment a few days ago.

It’s not hard to see why, but some people have said, well that’s it for Johnson, no one’s going to elect a guy who blanks on a question like that.

Personally, I don’t think it will hurt him that much, for a few reasons:

1. George W Bush couldn’t name three out of four foreign leaders he would be dealing with when he ran for POTUS the first time. He went on to serve two terms.

2. D. Trump knows less than Bush, or at least what he knows comes from an alternate universe. He won a major party nomination and he’s only a few points behind Hillary Clinton at the moment.

3. Johnson’s chances weren’t that great to begin with, although I understand he’s the first third-party candidate since Ross Perot to make the ballot in all 50 states. And one good thing about Aleppo is that a lot more people now know who Gary Johnson is. Any publicity is good publicity, they say.

But yeah, I don’t think it’s going to cost him an election he has a very slim chance of winning anyway. And most of his support is coming from people who hate Hillary and Donald so much that I doubt they care if he blanks on the occasional question. If there's one thing I've learned from past elections, it's that anything your candidate does or says is excusable, explainable or overblown by the biased media. 

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ITEM: Open-carry groups Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com plan to stage an open-carry demonstration next to the University of Texas at Austin. The protest will feature a mock mass shooting using fake guns, stage blood and the sounds of gunshots blasted through a bullhorn.

Organizer Murdoch Pizgatti describes it as a "public theatrical performance against gun-free zones":


Which is just dumb. Even if you believe Open Carry is a good idea, it’s ridiculous to try and prove yr point by acting out a staged situation with an outcome you have full control over – which is pretty much the opposite of what an actual mass shooting situation is like, as people are actually trained for such situations will tell you.

So Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com may think they’re making some grand point to anti-gun people about how gun-free zones just invite a mass shooting and you’ll wish the Good Guys With Guns were there to save you when the shit goes down.

What they’re actually doing is acting out the Die Hard gun-fu fantasies playing in their head that have nothing to do with reality, and passing it off as an argument in favor of Open Carry. Which is about as effective as bringing AR-15s to political rallies and Chipotles.

Even some other pro-gun groups say so:


Honestly, the only way they can realistically demonstrate the effectiveness of Good Guys With Guns in mass shooting scenarios is to be caught up in a real mass shooting. And frankly the track record of Good Guys With Guns in such scenarios is not that great.

BACKGROUND: Texas passed a law in June making it legal to carry concealed weapons on college campuses, but the law takes effect next August, and it comes with a number of restrictions, which means you can’t take yr concealed weapon just anywhere.

Mocking the mock shooters,

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