“Fui marxista, sí. Pero esa teoría nunca fue puesta realmente a prueba. El test es muy simple: si los ricos mantienen pobres a los pobres, entonces los países con más multimillonarios deberían tener también más pobreza. Sin embargo, al comparar los datos, Estados Unidos tiene más multimillonarios que África y Oriente Medio juntos, y aun así el nivel de vida de los pobres en Estados Unidos es más alto que el de la población de esas regiones. Por ese simple criterio, la teoría no se sostiene.”
— Thomas Sowell
Guns do make it easier to kill, but they also make it easier for people to protect themselves, and people use guns defensively about 5 times more than guns are used in crime.
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Two groups of people benefit the most from owning guns — poor blacks who live in high crime urban areas an people who are weaker physically (women and the elderly). The rules that you want hurt both groups making it more expensive to get a gun and delaying how quickly a woman who is being stalked or threatened can obtain a gun. As a police officer you know that you virtually always arrive on the crime scene after the crime occurs. You also know your views on these regulations isn’t share by most officers.
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You probably also know that many countries with these types of gun control laws have much higher violent crime rates than the US.
Canada
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Australia
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Those higher rates are also true for make countries in Europe like the UK.
You probably also know that many countries in Europe with exactly the laws you want have higher mass public shooting rates per capita.
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Call the bluff on a leftist who's claiming that Republican Congressional staffers are involved in an obviously astroturfed white supremacist group and financed by NGOs, and all the idiots come out of the woodwork.
Here's a history lesson.
This nation was founded on Protestantism. That isn't in dispute. Almost every state had a religious test for officeholding, and they largely required the officeholder to be Protestant. Schools required the reading of KJV, which was seen as an anti-Catholic slight. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote at length on how the United States was founded on Protestant ideology.
What changed? Catholics participated in civic life the way the Founding Fathers intended. They built their own schools and other parallel institutions, and voted in different office requirements. In short, Catholics proved themselves capable of being American, and they got full admission as a result.
The same pattern repeated with every group. Jews, Irish Catholics, Eastern Europeans... all initially excluded, all earned their place the same way: civic participation, institution-building, proving they could sustain self-governance. That's the American model. It's civilizational. Can you build institutions? Can you govern yourself? Can you participate in the republic?
No one steeped in the actual Protestant founding tradition would arrive at "white identity" as the organizing principle because the founding was organized around covenantal self-governance and distrust of centralized government.
@GadSaad@SCOTUSblog And they rejected it for political purposes. What does that do to your soul? Kowtowing to the god of politics? Raisin Soul? Old cigarette butt soul?
The Income Tax Repeal Initiative is now expected to be on your November ballot, where you will need to vote YES on I-645 to repeal the income tax.
The response to the initiative by everyday Washingtonians has been so immense, it forced Progressive Lawmakers (who tried to prevent a vote using an emergency clause) to pretend like they supported one all along.
Expect more shenanigans by our pro income tax Attorney General Nick Brown, who gets to write the ballot language and fiscal impact statement that have confused voters on previous initiatives.
@NatalieFahmy | @komonews
'Initiative to repeal millionaires' tax will take step closer to November ballot'
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