I Admit my Bias

We are a fractured nation and I wanted to capture that with a rare (now that I have a page dedicated solely to politics) post about politics as a way to snapshot the divide in our country about gun control, about what we should do about shooters like the guy who had all those guns in his Las Vegas hotel room, and who somehow thought it would be a good idea to shoot at the concertgoers.

For liberals, the Huffington Post comes out swinging with with this article - An Open Letter To Bill O’Reilly About His Dystopian Take On The Las Vegas Shooting - which I find offensive. In refuting Bill O'Reilly's opinion, the author writes
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...You say that “government restrictions will not stop psychopaths from harming people.” Agreed, so why then have laws prohibiting murder or rape? Or — and here’s a novel idea — why not let each state decide whether it wants ineffective anti-murder and anti-rape laws to remain on its books?
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to which I feel like saying, "And what government restrictions do you suggest we adopt as the law of the land that, had they been on the books, would have stopped the Las Vegas shooter?" Seriously, don't just say we need more laws and that Congress needs to act when the Democrats held the White House for 8 years. Don't say that Democrats couldn't get anything done because that argument can be refuted with a single word: ObamaCare, which had no Republican support. Why didn't you get more gun control on the books and stop the shooter?

Meanwhile, on the right, Ben Shapiro easily pokes holes in Jimmy Kimmel's late night monologue:

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I was going to try and apply critical thinking to what Shapiro says but I agree with him (whereas I don't agree with the Huff Post piece).