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@Double_R
Laws banning guns in one city does not work in a country where guns are readily available.
So why create these dangerous gun free zones?
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@Double_R
Last time I checked, there was nothing to stop anyone from driving over to the county next door where guns are worshipped, purchasing a gun and driving it right into any major city in the US.
So why create these dangerous gun-free zones?
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@Double_R
if we had actual laws designed to stop them.
Wasn't the mass shooter already known to the police? How would you reform the police so that they can be more effective with existing gun laws?
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@sadolite
It's also funny how post menopausal women think abortion policy affects them.
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@Polytheist-Witch
I will vote Democrat down the line for Roe.
Today's Democrats can't even define what a woman is. There's zero chance you voting for a Democrat today will produce Federal abortion on demand laws anytime in your lifetime.
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@Danielle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shira_Scheindlin , a Clinton appointee could hardly be classified as a Republican, but the point still stands.
If stop and frisk is unconstitutional, then there can exist no policy for banning and removing guns in America.
Any Democrat promising to do this is outright lying to get votes.
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@TheMorningsStar
We already know how banning guns has turned out for the past 50 years in major cities. Gun-free zones invite more crime and murderers.
I think we could end this discussion once and for all if all the gun owners in the country started posting a list of all the people who live on their block who do not own a registered gun.
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@zedvictor4
Shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted, as it were.
More like it takes a guy on a horse to stop a horse.
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@thett3
the government has made it unbelievably clear that they won’t defend you when it comes to it (as evidenced by the disgusting cowardice by the police in this case in particular.
Ultimately, the only way to end these situations is with someone else with a gun, either the police or someone else. The alternative is to allow the maniac to expend all his ammunition in the hopes of turning himself in afterward.
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@Double_R
The entire point of government is to be the means by which society solves its problems.
And this is why we have an entire society that has no individuals to step up and take care of mentally ill people before they become a problem.
Guy at work looks and acts like a likely psychotic killer? Not my problem. Government's problem.
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@thett3
Democrats don't even care about actual gun control because they banned stop and frisk.
It's all a bunch of lies for votes as usual.
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@thett3
what distinguishes a male mind vs a female mind?
I honestly believe in a postmodernist world that this question can never be answered. When there are infinite genders, then there are no genders. Male can be female and female can be male ONLY because those 2 terms are both indistinguishable concepts in a postmodern world.
This is the reason why a SCOTUS when pressed could not answer what a woman is.
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@3RU7AL
Why stop there? Everything in DC can go. Pentagon can stay though.
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@3RU7AL
because "government" is not supposed to "make a profit"
You are right about that. Many Government programs don't profit society at all. Would you like a list?
What would be your top pick of a government agency you would like to see dissolved?
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If that was the case, you would have a coherent response as to why theranos and enron and blockbuster and wework and delorean and lehman brothers
If that was the case, you would have a coherent response why they all failed in a span of a few years while Amazon and public schools persist for Decades.
Although admittedly, Blockbuster lasted a bit longer because there were no alternatives at the time.
Blockbuster, officially Blockbuster LLC and formerly known as Blockbuster Video, was an American-based provider of home movie and video game rental services. Services were offered primarily at video rental shops, but later alternatives included DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater. Previously operated by Blockbuster Entertainment, Inc., the company expanded internationally throughout the 1990s. At its peak in 2004, Blockbuster consisted of 9,094 stores and employed approximately 84,300 people: 58,500 in the United States and 25,800 in other countries.
Poor leadership and the impact of the Great Recession (which was caused by the government subsidizing sub-prime mortgages) were major factors leading to Blockbuster's decline, as was the growing competition from Netflix's mail-order service, video on demand, and Redbox automated kiosks. Significant loss of revenue occurred during the late 2000s, and the company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010
We have plenty of alternatives to any government service just like we eventually had alternatives to Blockbuster. But the main difference is that with the exception of a select allowance of private schools and postal services like UPS and Amazon, competition for government services are largely prohibited in America because no Government program is allowed to go bankrupt due to incompetence under the current oligarchs. Would you like a list?
I guarantee it will be a LOT longer than your Enron list and with far more lasting harm to society. (Just off the top of my head the Dept. of Energy has cause more power outages directly than the entire history of Enron.)
The mere fact that you have zero examples of Government agencies disbanding more than proves my point, as only a truly uneducated man would infer that no government dissolutions could only mean perfect competency of every government agency rather than the obvious perpetual subsidization of failing industries on a grand scale off the backs of hard working tax-payers.
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@Vader
The gunman was a local high school dropout with no criminal history and no known mental health history, officials said. He had just turned 18 and legally bought two assault rifles and ammunition for his birthday.
So what part of "universal background checks" other than the standard ones this murderer went through to own a firearm legally do you think could have stopped this person from owning a gun? A mandated psychiatric exam for every person? Good luck getting that through the Supreme court.
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@ILikePie5
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I'll be ok with banning guns as soon as everyone in Washington DC agrees to disarm all their bodyguards and security FIRST.
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@3RU7AL
you're cherry-picking
If that was the case, you would have a coherent response as to why Amazon and private schools exist in a free and fair society.
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@3RU7AL
"business" is often MORE inefficient and almost always less reliable than "government"
If that was the case, Amazon would not exist in a free and fair society. Or private schools.
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@3RU7AL
there are building regulations in every single state
Thank you for proving my point.
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That "smaller government" is not THE GOALa "better" (more fair, less corrupt) "government" is the goal
Corruption is always proportional to size. The only way to reduce corruption to the lowest acceptable level is to revert the menial tasks the government currently manages back into the hands of individuals.
There is no sound reason in a fair and free society for an independent worker to be prohibited from building an affordable house in ANY state in America.
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@3RU7AL
I'm simply pointing out the failures of the country to "progress" under the burden of a restrictive society run by a bloated government that fails in the most basic tasks because it is burdened with way too many menial tasks.
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@3RU7AL
are you at all familiar with the history of the american railroad industry ?
Are you at all familiar with the inability to make such a railroad today in California with government enforced Labor Monopolies?
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@3RU7AL
A slave is not allowed to work as an independent worker.
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@3RU7AL
America grew and prospered without Labor monopolies. Labor monopolies were at the peak during the Jimmy Hoffa era, but lost favor as the crime families took over and the public reacted. Today, Labor Monopolies are making a roaring comeback with legitimate nepotism in today's bloated government.
What is funny is noting the trend of the many people who believe the propaganda that Labor Monopolies are essential in a free society. That's just a real knee-slapper.
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@3RU7AL
there is no state in modern america where you are not allowed to quit and move to another state
You cannot work within that state as an independent worker without the protection of right to work laws. If enforced labor monopolies become federal policy, then you will have to leave the country to avoid government regulated slave labor restricting how an independent worker would normally choose to work in a free society.
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@3RU7AL
Sure they are, Worker monopolies support industry monopolies, They go hand in hand.
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@3RU7AL
Labor that is paid a fair wage and has the option to quit and work somewhere else is not "slave labor"
It is when the "fair wage" is set by the government backed labor monopolies. There are no options to "work elsewhere" in states with no right to work laws.
Again, try and build a house with independent workers in California and see exactly what happens. Then explain to me exactly how that is "fair" for either the independent worker or the person that just wants an affordable home.
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@3RU7AL
Try building a house in California with independent workers. Controlled labor is slave labor.
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@3RU7AL
good thing sweatshops and de facto slave labor don't exist anywhere on planet earth today
It does exist in states where labor monopolies have removed the right to work from independent workers with the full force of the government.
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@3RU7AL
because the roman army was on permanent conquest elsewhere
At that time, defense for Rome was provided by Visigoths and not an army comprised of Romans. The State failed to provide for basic defense.
but its grandeur may have also been its downfall. With such a vast territory to govern, the empire faced an administrative and logistical nightmare.
Thank you for proving my point.
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@3RU7AL
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@3RU7AL
TRIANGLE-SHIRTWAIST
Labor monopolies did not eliminate Triangle-shirtwaist. The evolution of Tort law did.
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@3RU7AL
because the roman army was on permanent conquest elsewhere.
Citation please.
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@3RU7AL
citation please
It would be easier and more convincing to cite the readily available migration statistics away from violent urban centers where criminal rehabilitation conducted by the State has failed spectacularly.
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@Benjamin
1) Abandoning private prisons and mass incarceration, focus on preventative work like curbing poverty and improving education.
That hasn't worked out so well in blue states. Crime is at an all time high, and beaurocrat-run prisons are very inefficient, costly, and rife with corruption from the oligarchic permanent government agencies who manage the state prisons with special unfair mistreatment to political enemies of the state.
2) Subsidizing green technology and food production with low impact on the environment (cutting subsidies to oil companies, weapons manufacturers, etc).
We are doing this currently with the force of a massive government rewarding failed technologies that people would never vote for with their hard earned dollars.
The actual price is higher than what is simply posted at the gas pump with the massive economic loss due to the cost of unrealized opportunities that the people most certainly would have chosen to invest in.
3) Cutting back on military spending. Prioritize saving lives through better healthcare rather than with highly expensive, only slightly improved military tech.
Many historians believe the Military to be the utmost primary responsibility of the government along with protecting the equal application of law with that military force. As we "progress" to a visionary future of the failed Roman empire with an ever increasing bloated government, it will be inevitable that America will reach a similar failure where the additional responsibilities of the government managing every aspect of individual human survival from food, to healthcare will cause it to fail completely in the fundamental job of protection. The barbarians simply waltzed into a largely undefended empire towards the end.
4) Encourage and protect workers unions, prevent union busting, enforce workers rights, even for part-time workers.
Encouraging worker monopolies at the expense of independent workers reduces competition, innovation, and fairness. Remember that organized crime thrived in the era of enforced worker monopolies for a reason. It's not "progressive" to return to that era. Most states with enforced worker monopolies have very unfair economies with massive wealth inequality. The sole purpose of a worker union is to reduce the amount of jobs in the market to create a shortage that drives up labor costs and wages. Nobody joins a union expecting a lower wage. Labor monopolies are not fair to independent workers struggling to get into a profession, and are also very costly to the general public.
5) Ending homelessness. This would only cost 20 billion dollars, and the government would save money in the long run.
The government could save even more money by lifting all the restrictions on private home construction and removing that responsibility from the tax payer's burden. But we are set in "progressing" toward the historical failed societies where individuals rely on the competence of a bloated and overtaxed government for basic shelter.
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@zedvictor4
or re-edit the species.
Bingo. You can't gaslight human nature or millions of years of evolutionarily biology.
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@Benjamin
Somebody recently proposed that we remove the right to vote from people receiving welfare, or in other words regressing back a century or two in terms of political fairness, towards an oligarcic type of republic like in ancient rome.
Lol, the government's overreach was huge when Rome was in full swing. In fact, that is what necessitated an oligarchy similar to the one we have now to run such a massive and bloated beaurocracy currently. Literally thousands of government agencies are today run by wealthy lobbyists with no accountability to the people, and the only thing that changes is the PR spokesman every 4 years.
If this seems "progresssive" to you, maybe you should re-read the rise and fall of historical empires. No thinking person would consider repeating the mistakes of history as "progressive"
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@ILikePie5
This is why you should never order your president through the mail.
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@Double_R
Only when the country he is threatening can effortlessly stomp us back to the stone age.
Again, is Taiwan worth losing your Nation over? Because that's who you elected. You already see from the gas prices that he keeps his promises.
This is one presidential promise I would rather he lied about or was making a clown funny. Threatening to invade another major country over a small territory that has no Americans in it isn't what I expect from an American president. Defend America First.
When America responds to Chinese launching test missiles with the intent to destroy Americans on American soil, then I can get behind that president to defend America first, but I absolutely do not support starting a war with China over Taiwan, or any other non-American territory that we have no military alliances with.
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@Double_R
Biden is the one they are laughing at.
Only the people that matter globally are laughing at Biden, I really don't care about actors and celebrity's opinions.
We can only pray Xi Xin Ping is laughing off the threat to launch American nukes over Taiwan.
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@Double_R
Hope you are ready to pay to protect Taiwan then.
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@n8nrgmi
The world either sees Biden as a clown to laugh at, or nuclear war is inevitable.
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Only a truly uninformed person would think ALL of the media (not just "mah fox") covered the American Invasion of Iraq without lies and deceptions.
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Not quite the same, US media does not (other than Fox News) tend to directly lie and fabricate.
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@thett3
People forget that the brain and genitals are both bodily organs.
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