Dan Bongino draws the parallel to the TV series: The Walking Dead. An episode where the characters find a prison and walk into it. Because they fear what's on the OUTSIDE more than what's on the inside.
The Mrs watches lotsa (via-screw tube) 48Hours, That Chapter, Coffee House Crime, of course COPS, and assorted law & crime episodes. The one common thread between many of these cases is the criminal element is NEVER sated and will continue to steal, robbing, raping, killing. Skip causality of rough childhoods or the 12 years of Reagan/Bush type excuses. Criminals like being criminals. Disarming the public only emboldens the worst because then, there'd be even less resistance. Politicians and their Karen armies don't care. Chicago Alderman made a deal with gangs a long time ago and it hasn't worked out. When politicians and their street proxies nullify the police and the law abiding, the differences between the two groups no longer has a distinction.
Private ownership of guns is banned here in China and the violent crime rate is far, far lower than in the US. That said, I don't think the US problem is primarily the guns, it's the rotten culture.
Free people working together without coercion have a chance at making the world a better place. Governments, not so much. Ideologies, especially the ones that made the Twentieth Century into a bloodbath, never.
Dan Bongino draws the parallel to the TV series: The Walking Dead. An episode where the characters find a prison and walk into it. Because they fear what's on the OUTSIDE more than what's on the inside.
The Mrs watches lotsa (via-screw tube) 48Hours, That Chapter, Coffee House Crime, of course COPS, and assorted law & crime episodes. The one common thread between many of these cases is the criminal element is NEVER sated and will continue to steal, robbing, raping, killing. Skip causality of rough childhoods or the 12 years of Reagan/Bush type excuses. Criminals like being criminals. Disarming the public only emboldens the worst because then, there'd be even less resistance. Politicians and their Karen armies don't care. Chicago Alderman made a deal with gangs a long time ago and it hasn't worked out. When politicians and their street proxies nullify the police and the law abiding, the differences between the two groups no longer has a distinction.
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Hi Charles!
Howdy!
Private ownership of guns is banned here in China and the violent crime rate is far, far lower than in the US. That said, I don't think the US problem is primarily the guns, it's the rotten culture.
Apples and oranges. Chinese accepted tyranny for security. It did not start with the Communists.
The death penalty does tend to have rather a chilling effect upon violent crime, even the unreported ones
A Chinese death penalty without the slip & fall/ambulance chasing army of appeals attorneys involved.
not to mention those who are summarily vanished
Thank you for carrying the torch, Juliette.
Free people working together without coercion have a chance at making the world a better place. Governments, not so much. Ideologies, especially the ones that made the Twentieth Century into a bloodbath, never.
Very well said.