Search results

Santorum was referring to the fact that in the orginal Constitution, blacks were were counted as 3/5 of a human being. He says that counting anyone as less than a full human being is wrong. How is that racist, even in the context of referencing a black President? History is history.

Sorry. I didn't realize that only Public Policy MBAs were capabe of understanding this topic. Next time I'll know better.

Let's say you could get $1T of the $4.3T you say is out there. Current US debt is over $14T. I don't see a 7% reduction in our national debt solving our problems in any significant way. If you look at what's going on in other countries, they're all lowering their income tax rates. Even...

What? No financial transaction taxes? Or are you against FTT because you might have to pay it? I ask this question in all seriousness because every time I hear someone make the case for raising taxes, they talk about rasing other people's taxes and rarely their own.

In most states (though not all), if you're in "imminent danger of great bodily harm," lethal force is justified. When civilians see a bad situation they have the option (and in many circumstances the obligation) to get the hell away before it blows up. Police, on the other hand, are...

Washington (DC), which has close to zero legal gun ownership, has by far the highest gun death rate in the country. http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir-death-rate-per-100-000 Perhaps local culture has something to do with it, too. States like Colorado and Indiana have high...

First, there's no question that gun ownership has increased dramatically in the US over the past 20 years while violent crime has decreased during that same time period. I'm not going to make the claim that more guns = less crime, but please don't expect anyone to believe that increased gun...

1. You're right. The numbers don't lie. US crime rates have been falling and continue to fall steadily. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1705342,00.html Even during the recession, big cities continue to see decreasing crime rates (especially violent crimes) and lower inmate...

There's no question that a corporation can apply a lot of pressure, but in the end you're protected by a secret ballot and the corporation has no way of knowing how you voted. If the secret ballot is taken away and you vote against the union everyone will know -- prepare to have your kneecaps...

According to the FBI, mass murder is defined as the killing of four or more people with no cooling-off period in between. In the last ten years, how many mass murders using a gun have there been in the US? Only a handful in a country of more than 300 million. It's extremely rare.

Every slave was controlled by a master; but how many gun owners put their guns to other people's heads? It's extremely rare. Besides, you could make the same argument about a kitchen knife or a chainsaw or hammer or an ice pick that can also be used to threaten and control. If the gun "is...

Law enforcement in numerous cities (Chicago, DC, etc.) have taken the pisition of total disarmament including a ban on handguns and the requirement that all long guns be stored disassembled and unsuable without reassembly. Numerous other police chiefs and sheriffs have stated that they would ban...

Comparing a slave to a gun is an odd argument. A gun is an inanimate object and has no legal rights by any stretch of the imagination; or by any moral argument as you could make regarding the fundamental human rights of a slave. No matter how you look at it, either legally or morally...

When I lawfully purchase and/or carry a gun, how am I "forcing my will and values on others?" Whose rights have I violated?

To some people (e.g., Chicago and DC politicians, the Brady organization, etc.), gun control means a total ban on hand guns. To other people (like me), gun control simply means laws that prohibit sales of guns to criminals and the mentally ill. There is no agreed-upon meaning of gun...

Countries with more guns have more gun crimes. Countries with more cars have more car crashes. There are more swimming pool drownings in Southern California each year than there are on the entire African Continent. Should we outlaw swimming pools? I'm not against all gun control. I...

Don't make it more complicated than it is. The rules for ammending the Constitution are simple. It requires approval by 75% of the state legislatures and two thirds of the federal congress. If you've got the numbers behind you to remove the Second Ammendment, go for it. In 1778 Thomas...

There's a process for changing the Constitution. If you want the Second Ammendment removed, go for it.

Gun violence has nothing to do with people who legally carry concealed weapons, and very little to do with legal gun owners in general. (There are over 4 million people in the US with permits to carry concealed weapons. How many of them committed violent crimes in the last year?) Most gun...

If legally carrying a concealed weapon is so dangerous then there should be a long list of cases where people with gun permits have killed other people while defending themselves or someone else. I've had a CCW (Carry Conceled Weapon permit) for 10+ years and have never heard of a single...