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The protests/riots this past year created more than $1B in damage. Can you imagine what it would be like if our country started taxing and requiring insurance for someone to utilize their freedom of expression? Constitutional rights shouldn't be infringed like this. I expect the SCOTUS to...

75.3% of adults in our country have already received at least 1 shot of the vaccine, and we're administering around 800K shots per day. The largest unvaccinated segment of our population are those that aren't eligible yet. Long story short, I don't think that this will have a large impact, even...

The US gave Afghanistan 20 years, thousands of lives, and trillions of dollars. We armed and trained 300K Afghani soldiers. We shouldn't be ashamed for leaving. We should feel ashamed for staying so long and trying to force democracy on a country that doesn't want it.

"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members." - Gandhi. Tribalism is a very natural trait, but many people leave it behind after they've had enough exposure to those outside of their tribe. I've always believed that society has a responsibility to...

Oddly enough, the fully vaccinated actually had a much higher CFR than the unvaccinated. UK delta variant case fatality rates Fully vaccinated: 0.7% (7,235 cases & 50 deaths) Partially vaccinated: 0.1% (19,957 cases & 20 deaths) Unvaccinated: 0.08% (53,822 cases & 44 deaths)

Think about what you just posted. If people are buying guns out of state and bringing them into California to sell illegally, how would an insurance requirement change anything? The people selling the guns illegally aren't going to buy insurance. The people buying the guns illegally aren't going...

I'm all for addressing the 3/4 of the problem, but I don't see this approach being effective. It's estimated that gang activity accounts for roughly 80% of violent crime. It's also estimated that 65% of guns used for violent crime are illegally owned. How would requiring insurance from law...

It varies year to year. 26% is the most recent data available. https://www.statista.com/statistics/249783/percentage-of-homicides-by-firearm-in-the-united-states/

Every constitutional right is somewhat unique, but I don't support requiring a fee to possess any of them. 26% of murders don't involve firearms. Maybe we should require everyone to carry general liability insurance just in case they do something that creates financial harm for someone else.

What other constitutional rights require insurance? How could you make a constitutional right dependent on whether or not someone could afford to pay a fee to possess it? Words can cause riots. How would you feel if the government started taxing people for the right to use freedom of speech? I...

I agree with the basic premise of the article. The longer a virus is allowed to flourish, the more opportunity it has to mutate. The biggest issue isn't people in the US choosing not to get vaccinated though. The biggest issue is lack of access to the vaccine in other countries. We'll be at risk...

Polls show that 80% of our population support voter ID. Even a majority of Democrats support it. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/559408-majorities-in-new-poll-support-early-voting-voter-id Majorities in new poll support early voting, voter ID A majority of people surveyed in a new poll...

It sounds crazy, but that's the way the world is trending. There was a guy in the UK that was sent to prison for teaching his dog to do a Nazi salute and posting it to youtube. You read that right, he was sent to prison for posting a video of a dog to social media. I just hope that level of...

At some point in time, it will probably become illegal to read publicly from the Bible or Quran, because the scriptures opposing homosexuality will be considered hate speech. That's why I'm firmly against outlawing it. Like I said before, the 1A produces some unsavory results at times, but it's...

I wasn't arguing with you. I was agreeing with you and expounding on your point that there are some restrictions to the 1A.

The 1A isn't all inclusive: 1. You can't use illegal speech to incite violence or threaten someone. 2. You can't disrupt a courtroom. 3. You can't endanger someone else's life by yelling "fire" in a crowd. 4. Private businesses can throw you out if they don't like what you say. 5. Freedom of...

When I see things like this, it makes me really glad that I live in the US. The 1st Amendment produces some unsavory results at times, but freedom matters more than feelings. I certainly don't want someone else deciding what is or isn't hate speech and what I can or can't say.

Any heating savings you made during the winter would be offset by additional cooling costs during the summer. So there isn't really a net gain unless you live in a climate that stays cold year round.

It always makes me laugh when they run polls on topics that 90-95% of the population doesn't understand. The ignorance of the average voter is a scary thing to think about.