Then why isn't Switzerland the setting of real life Mad Max battles? They have almost as many guns as the US, and they are more evenly distributed there.
Ban pools while you are at it. Only slightly behind. But somehow less scary. Sort of like how we are more afraid of sharks than we are of dogs, even though lots more people get killed by dogs each year. Oh yeah, ban dogs too!
No, in the context of the time, the militia was all able bodied men from a certain lower limit age to an upper limit age, something like 14-55 or so, IIRC. And that was a justification clause, which in modern legal language would be preceded by "for reasons including, but not limited to the following" or some such. It does not modify the clause "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".
If you don't like it, petition to have the constitution amended. As it is, all gun control laws are completely unconstitutional, whether or not they are good or bad for society.
Guns aren't only used to kill. They are used to stop people from killing you. And it would seem that they are very effective at that, as the drugged out psycho showed when he picked a target that was disarmed by statute, populated by people least likely to carry guns in any event.
He wasn't law abiding though. He was a drug addict with an arrest record. He was also on medication that causes the side effect of "strange thoughts" in 1-10% of people.
If you take away the guns, they will start making bombs. I think that it is time to start weighing the costs and benefits of treating people, especially young people, with psychoactive substances for various mental problems.
If mass shootings haven't been a major problem for the last hundred or so years since semi-automatic and automatic weaponry became available to the public, then something else has changed. Rather than attacking the means that weak people use to defend themselves against strong people, we should instead look for the root cause of the problem.
Remove minorities from the statistics and you will find that the US violent crime rate is in line with the least violent nations in Europe.
Guns have nothing to do with it, or the Swiss would be awash in blood. Rather, what we need to do is focus on economic advancement of the underclasses, which are disproportionately populated by minorities (for whatever reason). And you aren't going to get there with welfare. That has been tried, and all it does is breed generation after generation of permanent cripples (see the state of Indian tribes on and off the reservations--those on reservation receive generous welfare payments, and are poor, while those off the reservation have to make their own way, and are largely successful and independent).
If you want to have a social safety net, then fine, put in a basic income, which has been shown not to have a negative impact on people's willingness to work. But when you have a system that punishes people with less welfare money, or a total cut when you go to get a job, and punishes those who work even a little with greatly increased amounts of reporting and paperwork, well, you get what we have today.
It's also why our poorest state is wealthier than the UK on a per capita basis.
We look more and more like a toilet because we are abandoning our founding values, which are the values that created the middle class, and were once shared by every nation that is today recognized as "developed", as those values are, in fact, the only way you can create a developed economy.
There was a time when private citizens in America owned and operated warships, including loads and loads of cannon. A bit more power in one of those than in a howitzer (especially relative to the time period).
But hey, why defend yourself when some other guy can do it for you, and then turn around and steal your life savings because you have a lot of money on you?
No, it is you that has demonstrated that you lack any semblance of maturity. Pointing out facts doesn't shape the universe. In fact, I would say that you are arguing against your own self here, where you have confused your personal perspective with the physical fact of the universe.
The fact is, the only people I have ever known to use those buttons are middle aged women who, in fact, usually stick to sites like Etsy and Pinterest (and Facebook), not a science and technology blog like Slashdot.
But that hurts your feelings, I guess. Go smoke some more weed. I'm sure that will make the bad contradictions to your mental model of the universe go away.
Stop paying your taxes and see if men with automatic machine flower dispensers show up at your door.
You know, for someone who hates guns as much as you seem to, you would think that the idea of taking them away from people who actually use them would appeal to you. But I see the fact is that you just don't want the people to be able to resist the mandates of your masters.
Yes, that has worked so well in the past. I mean, clearly black Americans have benefited ENORMOUSLY from welfare systems, which is why there aren't any poor ones now.
It's the policies you hate that created the middle class, and the policies you love that have destroyed it. Sorry:(
Just because DARPA invented something (whose time had clearly come) doesn't mean it wouldn't have been invented. Fact is that universities NEEDED a way to quickly transfer data cross country. Would have happened sooner or later, and if later, the rollout would have been faster, as the economy would have been much stronger
In fact, statistics on government spending and economic policy suggest that GDP would be four times what it is today if government rolled back regulations and economic interference to 1960's levels. I, for one, would gladly take a little dirty air in exchange for a four-fold increase in salary.
And the government didn't invent medicine, you ponce. In fact, the FDA is the greatest barrier to medicine reaching the people in the history of humanity.
Cut the military back to nuclear deterrent, coast guard, and small standing army for border protection, and allow the return of the merchant marine to keep trade routes safe, and you have a cut closer to 90%. We'd be better liked abroad as well, allowing us to reap the benefits of increased trade.
Yes, I'm sure the taxpayers there want to support yet another foreigner.
Once those governments run out of OPM, they will look very much like Cuba. Failed states.
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The point just absolutely flies over your head, doesn't it?
John Galt did was he was told to do. If he was told to apply for food stamps, he did. He simply did as he was told, withholding the fruits of his thoughts and labors from a society determined to steal them from him.
You need to ACTUALLY READ Atlas Shrugged and identify the various archetypes she lays out there. She was playing John Galt. Alan Greenspan played Fransisco d'Anconia. Various CEOs have played her Ubermen (ie Dagney Taggart and John Rearden) or corrupt rent seekers (Dagney's brother). Today almost entirely the latter. Various people are either moochers, looters, or ignoramuses (like Dagney's assistant, who tried to work within the system while maintaining his honor, ultimately leading to his death as the world collapsed around him).
We are all in the belly of a terrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death. Rand recognized that in order for us to survive, we need to make it bleed out faster before it digests us all, whether by non-compliance (as did those who went to Galt's Gulch) or by total compliance (Galt himself, as a janitor in Taggart Transcontinental).
But hey, I'm sure you know more about her philosophy than she did, so you just continue to sit there are judge and mooch while all is looted. I'm sure it will all be okay.
I would suggest standardizing requirements for all these programs, and having a single compliance bureau, rather than having one for each program. Or better yet, axe 100% of that shit and put in a basic income.
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Then why isn't Switzerland the setting of real life Mad Max battles? They have almost as many guns as the US, and they are more evenly distributed there.
But when your "fix" only applies to people who fall into that tautology, you have moved from the realm of self-reference to farce.
Ban pools while you are at it. Only slightly behind. But somehow less scary. Sort of like how we are more afraid of sharks than we are of dogs, even though lots more people get killed by dogs each year. Oh yeah, ban dogs too!
No, in the context of the time, the militia was all able bodied men from a certain lower limit age to an upper limit age, something like 14-55 or so, IIRC. And that was a justification clause, which in modern legal language would be preceded by "for reasons including, but not limited to the following" or some such. It does not modify the clause "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".
If you don't like it, petition to have the constitution amended. As it is, all gun control laws are completely unconstitutional, whether or not they are good or bad for society.
Guns aren't only used to kill. They are used to stop people from killing you. And it would seem that they are very effective at that, as the drugged out psycho showed when he picked a target that was disarmed by statute, populated by people least likely to carry guns in any event.
He wasn't law abiding though. He was a drug addict with an arrest record. He was also on medication that causes the side effect of "strange thoughts" in 1-10% of people.
If you take away the guns, they will start making bombs. I think that it is time to start weighing the costs and benefits of treating people, especially young people, with psychoactive substances for various mental problems.
If mass shootings haven't been a major problem for the last hundred or so years since semi-automatic and automatic weaponry became available to the public, then something else has changed. Rather than attacking the means that weak people use to defend themselves against strong people, we should instead look for the root cause of the problem.
Drive by's don't count as mass shootings?
Remove minorities from the statistics and you will find that the US violent crime rate is in line with the least violent nations in Europe.
Guns have nothing to do with it, or the Swiss would be awash in blood. Rather, what we need to do is focus on economic advancement of the underclasses, which are disproportionately populated by minorities (for whatever reason). And you aren't going to get there with welfare. That has been tried, and all it does is breed generation after generation of permanent cripples (see the state of Indian tribes on and off the reservations--those on reservation receive generous welfare payments, and are poor, while those off the reservation have to make their own way, and are largely successful and independent).
If you want to have a social safety net, then fine, put in a basic income, which has been shown not to have a negative impact on people's willingness to work. But when you have a system that punishes people with less welfare money, or a total cut when you go to get a job, and punishes those who work even a little with greatly increased amounts of reporting and paperwork, well, you get what we have today.
It's also why our poorest state is wealthier than the UK on a per capita basis.
We look more and more like a toilet because we are abandoning our founding values, which are the values that created the middle class, and were once shared by every nation that is today recognized as "developed", as those values are, in fact, the only way you can create a developed economy.
There was a time when private citizens in America owned and operated warships, including loads and loads of cannon. A bit more power in one of those than in a howitzer (especially relative to the time period).
But hey, why defend yourself when some other guy can do it for you, and then turn around and steal your life savings because you have a lot of money on you?
No, it is you that has demonstrated that you lack any semblance of maturity. Pointing out facts doesn't shape the universe. In fact, I would say that you are arguing against your own self here, where you have confused your personal perspective with the physical fact of the universe.
The fact is, the only people I have ever known to use those buttons are middle aged women who, in fact, usually stick to sites like Etsy and Pinterest (and Facebook), not a science and technology blog like Slashdot.
But that hurts your feelings, I guess. Go smoke some more weed. I'm sure that will make the bad contradictions to your mental model of the universe go away.
Lets see those number, Yancy.
No argument, just insult.
To return it in kind, go smoke some more weed, you worthless moocher.
You see no difference between using a gun to defend property rights and using a gun to steal property?
Every time you go into a bank and see an armed guard, do you shout "OH MY GOD HE HAS A GUN!!!" and hit the deck?
"Of course there is no "gun""
Stop paying your taxes and see if men with automatic machine flower dispensers show up at your door.
You know, for someone who hates guns as much as you seem to, you would think that the idea of taking them away from people who actually use them would appeal to you. But I see the fact is that you just don't want the people to be able to resist the mandates of your masters.
Yes, that has worked so well in the past. I mean, clearly black Americans have benefited ENORMOUSLY from welfare systems, which is why there aren't any poor ones now.
:(
It's the policies you hate that created the middle class, and the policies you love that have destroyed it. Sorry
Oh, so you just LOVE the new layout. What, because I hate it? Get your own life, Yancy.
Just because DARPA invented something (whose time had clearly come) doesn't mean it wouldn't have been invented. Fact is that universities NEEDED a way to quickly transfer data cross country. Would have happened sooner or later, and if later, the rollout would have been faster, as the economy would have been much stronger
In fact, statistics on government spending and economic policy suggest that GDP would be four times what it is today if government rolled back regulations and economic interference to 1960's levels. I, for one, would gladly take a little dirty air in exchange for a four-fold increase in salary.
And the government didn't invent medicine, you ponce. In fact, the FDA is the greatest barrier to medicine reaching the people in the history of humanity.
Cut the military back to nuclear deterrent, coast guard, and small standing army for border protection, and allow the return of the merchant marine to keep trade routes safe, and you have a cut closer to 90%. We'd be better liked abroad as well, allowing us to reap the benefits of increased trade.
Yes, I'm sure the taxpayers there want to support yet another foreigner.
Once those governments run out of OPM, they will look very much like Cuba. Failed states.
The point just absolutely flies over your head, doesn't it?
John Galt did was he was told to do. If he was told to apply for food stamps, he did. He simply did as he was told, withholding the fruits of his thoughts and labors from a society determined to steal them from him.
You need to ACTUALLY READ Atlas Shrugged and identify the various archetypes she lays out there. She was playing John Galt. Alan Greenspan played Fransisco d'Anconia. Various CEOs have played her Ubermen (ie Dagney Taggart and John Rearden) or corrupt rent seekers (Dagney's brother). Today almost entirely the latter. Various people are either moochers, looters, or ignoramuses (like Dagney's assistant, who tried to work within the system while maintaining his honor, ultimately leading to his death as the world collapsed around him).
We are all in the belly of a terrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death. Rand recognized that in order for us to survive, we need to make it bleed out faster before it digests us all, whether by non-compliance (as did those who went to Galt's Gulch) or by total compliance (Galt himself, as a janitor in Taggart Transcontinental).
But hey, I'm sure you know more about her philosophy than she did, so you just continue to sit there are judge and mooch while all is looted. I'm sure it will all be okay.
Paul Krugman is literally as intelligent as a South Park lampoon of Whoopi Goldberg
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That's fine, as long as it is YOU giving it to them, and not putting a gun to your fellow man's head and forcing him to do it.
I would suggest standardizing requirements for all these programs, and having a single compliance bureau, rather than having one for each program. Or better yet, axe 100% of that shit and put in a basic income.
Can't have them rising up against the current system. Best to give them bread and circuses until it all comes tumbling down.