It is a very fine Wednesday, and I hope that some of you are out playing in this glorious weather. PLAYING — not shooting pigeons that are being thrown in the way of your gun. The more I think about it, I think that shooting skeet is probably tougher than that, and if you are shooting for fun, work on your skills, people.
It looks like there may be a compromise on the background checks for guns issue in Congress:
Toomey and Manchin were discussing an expansion of current law to require background checks for gun sales over the Internet and between private parties at gun shows, according to the aide, who asked not to be identified in describing the discussions. Noncommercial person-to-person firearms sales wouldn’t be covered, the aide said.
Democrats wanted to require background checks for almost all gun sales, though some supporters said the approach by Toomey and Manchin would be a good compromise.
This covers the larger vectors where criminals can acquire guns. Democrats seem to think that they can get a vote in the Senate, but I think that is still unclear.
A 6-year-old Toms River, N.J., boy who was shot in the head Monday by his 4-year-old neighbor, died Tuesday night, Ocean County authorities said tonight.
I’m sure that the gun’s owner is just another good guy with a gun.
So this is a thing — opting out of the high-stakes standardized tests that are destabilizing teaching and politics. I knew that there were parents working at ending it in some places, but did not know that opting out was it’s own movement. This is from Philly:
Anglin is one of the first, small batch of Philadelphia parents to join a national “opt-out” movement – a grass-roots rebellion against the outsized role that standardized tests like the PSSA (Pennsylvania System of School Assessment) play in the day-to-day classroom experience, in the closure of urban schools rated as “failing,” and in stressing out both students and their teachers, whose careers may soon ride on the results.
I endorse this. Seriously.
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