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July. Summer on the island
muffles in scarves.
Merino-socked, Berghaus-booted,
swap cocoon of car
for hilly slither. Pilgrim-trail
with sodden strangers,
step in time to the cadence of rain…
—Nikki Robson, “The Callanish Stones”
published in Other Worlds: An Anthology of Scottish Island Poems (Birlinn, 2022)
https://birlinn.co.uk/2022/06/20/poem-of-the-week-the-callanish-stones-by-nikki-robson/
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So much sympathy to all the dog owners whose poor pups are shuddering right now terrified, burrowing under desks, tables, and blankets; into closets or any small space they can find regardless of their size; the booms and unnatural thunder, the rapid-fire explosions, sending a primal terror through their sweet domestic minds.
No Explosions
By Naomi Shihab Nye
To enjoy
fireworks
you would have
to have lived
a different kind
of life
The following 15 states have Democratic trifectas. They can pass universal health care systems before the 2026 elections.
CA, CO,, CT, DE HI, IL, MD, ME, NJ, NM, MA, NY, OR, RI, WA
It is shocking and hurts the heart that four votes is all it took for America to take such a dark, deranged and damaging turn. On the other hand four is a very close vote.
We have a huge amount of work to do to reverse this abomination. To try to educate those who voted Republican or who did not vote. To boot the extremists out of public office. But it is NOT out of reach.
And meantime we must also do all we can to help those who are harmed.
@michaelmagras I think the Dems are wise not to embrace the MGSC agenda wholesale.
To take just one example, revoking Constitutional Carry would end any chances of Dems winning outside of Portland and maybe a few pockets on the coast.
@michaelmagras "Gun reform legislation" is pretty vague.
If you're not talking about the given example, then it's hard for readers to have any idea at all what it is you want Daughtry (and Maine Dems) to do.
A lot of the bills that have come out of the offices of Southern Maine Dems have been pretty rightly panned by lots of folks, including the ACLU (e.g. the ill-conceived ten-round limit on semi-automatics).
@michaelmagras My understanding is that municipalities are empowered to regulate the discharge of firearms.
The municipality wherein I reside does so, as you say most do (that is consistent with my limited experience, too).
I'm sympathetic if you have neighbors who behave badly with firearms. But that sounds like a local issue, not necessarily a state one.
@michaelmagras Not saying bad neighbors doing bad things with guns in tight quarters isn't a problem.
Just feel like it's a local one.
I don't even know how you'd write a statewide statute that would help you without being far too broad.
@abucci @michaelmagras I think you missed a lot of the exchange here.
@michaelmagras said his concern is specific and local -- having to do with his municipality and, it sounds, specific neighbors discharging firearms inside the town limits (from what I can gather).
I don't think "sensible" is a useful qualifier here. What "reforms" are wanted?
Municipalities can and do regulate discharge of firearms. So why turn a local issue into a state one?
@michaelmagras @abucci Can you be specific? What is it you *want* to be prohibited? When and where? By whom?
You owe specifics to the rest of the state if you want to make a local issue a statewide one.
@michaelmagras @abucci Seems immaterial.
But I think it's counterproductive to pretend calling a policy "sensible" is ever enough to justify it.
Lots of policies right now are called "sensible" as we descend into a police state.
@michaelmagras @abucci You haven't demonstrated there's a "statewide" problem.
You've described a local problem.
@michaelmagras @abucci You haven't elaborated on what you *want*, yet get upset when folks don't fall over themselves helping you get it.
Then you move on to weird ad hominem.
This isn't healthy. It isn't liberative. It's not even being a good neighbor.
Not trying to be unpleasant. I'm sympathetic. But I honestly can't discern what you want, specifically.
In any case, have a good one.
@abucci @michaelmagras I think you're talking about how guns are dangerous as a very general concern, while I (and I thought we) were talking about a specific problem with discharge of firearms within a local jurisdiction that has the power to regulate it but doesn't.
Those aren't the same thing.
And I want to be friendly here because I've found our interactions to be pleasant in the past, but I'm not sure the way you've jumped in and out of the thread here is the gold standard for "rational".
@abucci @michaelmagras What you're calling "dismissive" is a perfectly valid position and consistent with how this works presently (pretty well) in the state.
Municipalities are empowered to regulate firearms discharge. Most do.
If one doesn't and its residents want it to, the most obvious solution is to fix *that*, not immediately move to changing things for *everybody else in the entire state*.
And I'd contend that I'm not the one being dismissive here, not by a country mile.
When I write to political figures, I usually don't expect to get a reply. Their contact forms often ask whether I'm looking for a response. When I am looking to hear back, I'll usually end with, "I will be looking forward to your reply." That said, the no-response rate you speak of seems pretty extraordinary. I'm from Milo and Bangor originally. My Brownville Junction cousin has a bumper sticker on his truck, which says something to the effect of, "Gun Control Means Both Hands on the Gun." My father's hospice nurse loved it. So, I have some idea the position you find yourself in. Good luck to you.
PS When I was at the University of Maine, a lot of left wingers were in Freeport.
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@michaelmagras Well, at least you got a novel response. I'm not sure it would have ever occurred to me to tell anyone I couldn't get back to them until I heard from a law library. Evidently Mattie Daughtry has a creative script writer.
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