What a fun subject.
Get rid of most gun laws. All citizens should be able to own the same weapons issued as personal firearms to the armed forces, and laws keeping them from doing so should be abolished.
I wouldn’t be at all suprised if the violent crime rate for ethnic Japanese or Danes living in the United States were at least as low as in their repective native countries.
You kids remember all of that agiprop about jolly old England and how nice and polite everybody was? Thanks to very potent doses of leftist social engineering, except for murder, they have easily surpassed us in violent crime. Apparently the usual learned idiots have decided that defending one’s life or property a bit too vigorously isn’t cricket, and they will throw the book at you. And yes, confiscating weapons was part of the deal.
John Lott is the guy doing all of the research on gun ownership and crime rates. It suffices to say that he is somewhat controversial. Some left wing academic clown wrote a book a few years back claiming that all of the notions about universal gun ownership back in the day were wrong. Turns out he was a big, no make that huge, fraud. Imagine that- I couldn’t.
BTW, for all of you they have no crime and the US does folks, it was the good ole US of A, with all of its hicks and hillbillies and cowboys who knew how to shoot strait, that had to put down the militarist Japanese, who were extremely polite to the Chinese, and the Germans, not too keen on private gun ownership, and for that matter were the original anti-smoking Nazis as well.
Some libertarian once said that the government has a big enough job to do keeping people from harming one another and ought to steer clear of regulating what people do to themselves. I agree, so shitcan the FDA and the DEA and the ATF. The only thing a manufacturer should get in trouble for is not making what the label says it being made. Of course there will be fallout, be let’s not kid ourselves that there isn’t any now. The War on Drugs has succeeded in corrupting law enforcement, eroding our personal liberties, expanding the police state mentality, shipping hundreds of thousands of non-violent black drug ‘offenders’ to the big house, getting people killed, and on and on. The one thing that is hasn’t of course done is make drugs less available. But it is a government run operation, so what could one expect? Oh, and by the way, those in government wouldn’t lie about what drugs actually do to people would they, to accumulate power and grab a steady paycheck? Never.
Eminent domain should be strictly curtailed. The usual goodie-goodie government types will spout there usual bullshit about creating jobs and blah, blah, blah, and as usual, they will be completely full of shit. On balance, there is no way that you can take something from someone, run it through a bureaucracy, and turn it in to something more valuable. You can of course waste a lot of other people’s money trying and lie your ass off about it, but wealth you won’t create. And guess what kids, who gets screwed the most? The least well connected, poor and minorities, that’s who. Don’t tell me that you were suprised. And of course there are no links to who donates and who gets what. Not possible.
I am all for passing a law that makes a park out of the private residence of any developer and government official that made public to private eminent domain takings possible. The park wouldn’t be complete without a big marble or granite slab, dedicating the hallowed ground to so and so’s greed, meglomania and stupidity with other’s property.
And of course some nerdy type economist ran the numbers and found, duh, that people put less investment in their private property where eminent domain taking is more likely. Whoda thunk?
As the dear reader may well surmise I am very, extremely cynical about what governments, basically monopolies on coercion- force, can and should do. Just because a well-connected group can and does come up with some bullshit idea and get it past a largely indifferent public doesn’t make it good, right, or even so, much less legal in many cases.
So I am for shitcanning over 90 percent of the federal government. Take the 9th and 10th amendments to the Constitution seriously. Change the Department of Defense back to the Department of War. If the DoD is on the job and defending the good ole US of A, then what the fuck do we need the Dept of Homeland Security for?
I could go on and on, but you get the picture. I can’t imagine why anyone calling themselves a T-man would go for more officious idiots telling them what they can and can’t do, especially for their own good. The idea of some out of shape dumbshit telling T-Nation that MAG-10 or MD6 or whatever is bad and going to be banned because that sort of thing plays wells with Soccer Moms causes me serious nausea.
