My mom made money as a lobbyist when I was a kid.

She lobbied on behalf of family farms that wanted to limit the use of bovine growth hormones, either because they had moral objections to pumping their cows full of steroids or because its use gave advantages to factory dairy farms over small family operations.

Lobbying is a disease on democracy, but there are moral cases for its existence in certain circumstances.

Reason Two:

When they grow up they look like emo surfer kids.

I went to a Humans vs. Zombies Nerf war at a university campus a few weeks ago. A couple hundred people, real strong mix of men, women, and others. A healthy mingling of people who were clearly gun hobby adjacent and a lot of openly queer folk, which I think is really quite encouraging to see. Everyone had a good time, no issues the whole day. Good vibes all around.

At the end of the event, the student organizers tearfully announced that the school administration had decided to ban all blaster events on campus going forward. Fuck us all for trying to have a healthy good time, right?

God that’s good!

That is a fair point.

Probably not everyone’s, but I’d be willing to bet that the total number of exceptions to the rule either greater or fewer than pretty nearly cancel each other out, on average.

Bird shot… big bird shot.

“So anyway, that was the beginning of my transition journey and also how I became an absolute master of giving HJs.”

Okay but hear me out: