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From The Reporter’s Notebook
TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal points out that rather than boycotting the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Democrats are using House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s recent comments about the panel as leverage to try to reveal the political nature of the Republican-led investigation. The committee’s Democrats slammed their Republican colleagues on Monday, calling their investigation an “unethical abuse of millions of taxpayer dollars.” They also released parts of an interview the committee conducted in private with a Hillary Clinton staffer, and announced that they will soon release the entire transcript.
Agree or Disagree?
“By definition, with Boehner having departed on the terms that he did, any successor [for speaker] will be weaker than he was. Which is saying something. If a faction pushed out your predecessor, their threat to toss you is even more credible—especially if the successor is a nondescript figure with no core constituency of his or her own. Which pretty much defines McCarthy to a tee.” – Josh Marshall
Say What?!
“I would encourage my fellow Christians who are serious about their faith to think about getting a handgun carry permit. I have always believed that it is better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.”
– Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey (R) wrote on Facebook that serious Christians should own guns following the Oregon massacre.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I have owned guns, carried them to work in a non-military job settings, and done a little hunting now and then. I understand traditional gun culture and can respect the minor role that guns play in some family’s heritage. But my life with guns was over long before the arrival of “tactical” gun culture. Blame it on Reagan and the “war on drugs”, or the rise of gangs or the narco crime syndicates, but sometime around 1980, the target at the end of the barrel took off it’s antlers and put on a hoodie. The focus of private gun ownership changed from hunting…to killing. “
Related: The Oregon shooter’s mother reportedly bragged about her secret gun stash.
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What We’re Reading
An interactive showing how mass shooters got their guns. (The New York Times)
How attorney Roberta Kaplan beat the Defense of Marriage Act. (WNYC)
How rare are pilot deaths on commercial flights? (Boston Globe)
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