don't trust? Everyone. Everyone. There's no exception. If the Pope hands you a gun and says "Don't worry, it's not loaded," check it. Check it. Because you don't know the Pope is telling you the truth. Don't take a chance.

So somehow they can write that story without mentioning the most basic gun safety facts: that it shouldn't have mattered who made that mistake. There were ten ways for the accident not to happen, and all of them involved just normal common sense. So I don't think we can let anybody off the hook by saying "Oh, he didn't know it was loaded." That doesn't count. Sorry. No credit for "didn't know it was loaded."

My favorite joke so far in the totally inappropriate category. Let me give you a test. Are we adult enough that we can handle the contradiction that I think most of us genuinely see this as—I hope—a real tragedy with real people who really will have to suffer forever? The survivors will have to suffer forever the loss of their loved one, and of course the deaths themselves. So it's a tragedy, and as humans we need to point that out. But are we not allowed to