This violates no sane law anywhere". That's an argument that sounds much like the one used by WikiLeaks, which has also published hacked data including Sarah Palin's stolen emails and East Anglia University's hacked emails related to climate change.
"I think that between Penzone's history of fair and sane law enforcement and the fact that I think that the vast majority of voters are simply tired, just embarrassed by being a national joke, a symbol of crazy, Arpaio is vulnerable," Pearson said.
Gun nuts may have felt great protecting their own interests, but they also threw into question longstanding Missouri gun restrictions, such as the ban on convicted felons carrying a firearm – all out of a belief, again unsupported by solid evidence, that the Obama administration has hatched a conspiracy to pry guns away from sane, law-abiding citizens.
He continues to voice resistance to even the most basic kinds of changes in existing gun policy, changes that almost all Americans support, changes that would have little impact on the rights and ability of sane, law-abiding citizens to purchase legal weapons.
And, sane, law-abiding citizens don't commit mass murder.
I also liked the nonfiction work Babygate, which helps parents navigate pregnancy and the workplace and proselytizes for more sane laws that would allow and encourage women and men to both be fully engaged with raising their child.
There is a growing revulsion at a state of affairs that has made lockdown drills a rite of passage for kindergartners not least from schoolchildren themselves, who, as the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, have shown, can be powerful advocates for saner laws.
This challenge to a sane gun law should not be left twisting in the legal wind.
But McCain was arguably the reason we don't have a sane climate law in place right now.
And yes, universal background checks will not prevent a sane and law-abiding suburban mom from arming her troubled boy; only common sense can do that.
What will keep the conversation about sports shooting and crime separate is the presence, and not the absence, of sane gun laws in America.
