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East Meadow, L.I.: Our government seems to be hell bent on ruining itself. A balloon enters its airspace and they shoot it down, then warn citizens not to touch it or go near it. Sounds logical to me, but if you didn’t know what’s in it, why did you shoot it down? I’ve seen jetliners get refueled in midair, I’ve seen ballistic nets shot over a man running on an airstrip — you can’t tell me there was not a more nimble way to bring it down.

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File it under depressingly predictable: Wednesday and Thursday, Senate Republicans and Democrats were running into political friction as they tried to turn the modest set of "breakthrough" gun safety proposals into actual legislation. Though we are decidedly underwhelmed by the ideas -- including incentives to states to enact "red flag" laws; extra scrutiny of young gun buyers; and more spending on mental health care and school safety -- it would be an epic failure if, in the wake of two galvanizing mass shootings by 18-year-old's and amid record gun violence, nothing ...

File it under depressingly predictable: Wednesday and Thursday, Senate Republicans and Democrats were running into political friction as they tried to turn the modest set of “breakthrough” gun-safety proposals into actual legislation.