Should You Have a Gun?

Partial reference: http://goo.gl/0x79DV

As soon as I'd heard the words "shouldn't have had a gun," I'd wanted to go desperately to Facebook and pull out another gun control debate aspect, but I think everyone's kind of gunned out. Still, I need to get this out.

As you may or may not know, I believe in controlling guns. I believe there are certain guns for certain occasions, and not everyone should have the most powerful and modern out there just because they want to.

Hearing, though, that someone who has had criminal convictions in the past, and who therefore should not have a gun, makes me wonder why people want to make it so easy to obtain one?

People seem to be most against the easy transfer of guns between family members. It just takes one relative who feels that the offending relative "isn't a criminal" and that "everyone is against him" to give that offending relative - who may be trying to falsely ingratiate himself to the family member - a gun.

Then Hell could break loose.

Why don't we have background checks again?

Wedding Hands - John King

So, John King and Dana Bash have separated.

Like many of the songs that I happen on for the first time, it's a year old when I find out, but I suppose in this case CNN has done their best to keep it quiet.

I remember back in 2008 when they were talking about it. John King got his now-defunct (and I'd predicted it would be; I mean, I really couldn't take a show called John King, USA seriously at all) show, and two CNN political "power-hitting" correspondents getting hitched? That was "newsworthy" indeed.

I was even telling my mother, saying literally, "He became a Jew for her." It seemed like it would last.

So, here I am watching Erin Burnett OutFront (that, despite my hesitation with that show's name, I didn't predict similar doom as John King, USA) and they have John King up.

Being me, I look at his wedding hand, as I do for just about every male I encounter (a very weird quirk, I know!). And I don't see a ring. So I start questioning. And researching.

And behold, the Internets say anything from separated to divorced. And it surprised me.

Then I start thinking about Dana Bash and John King separately, and think about what they must be like together.

Then I'm less surprised.

The things I think about when I look at a man's wedding hand.