some people speak of something called gun violence as if the guns were roaming about creating mayhem. each of those guns were operated by an individual who made choices. the gun didn't participate in the situation by itself, no more than a car chooses to crash;

Every time there’s a tragic incidence of gun violence, I read the claim on social media, “it’s the guns!” implying a causal relationship between the availability of firearms and violent crime. The concomitant corollary is that restrictions on gun ownership would reduce violence and lead to the peaceful society we all want. I don’t believe this is the case, and will explain why.

I concede that the claim “it’s the guns!” has some element of truth in it. A gun is a more effective and lethal means of inflicting harm than many other common weapons, such as knives, clubs, rocks, fists, and feet. A firearm can be employed to deadly effect by a person who has little to no training. In the final analysis, all that is required is to point the weapon in the correct direction and pull the trigger. This is why criminals are generally able to deploy guns very effectively.

The argument for prohibition is that removing or restricting guns from society at large will reduce violence. There is an element of logic in this conclusion, but the analysis is incomplete and therefore flawed. Guns may also be used to reduce violence. It’s been estimated by serious scholars that the total number of defensive gun uses in the US annually is between 55,000 and 4.7 million. In recent years, US homicides by gun have numbered about 15,000. Thus defensive gun uses significantly outnumber gun murders.........more......

 pcr asks and answers, in detail, a very timely question;

Can the West Survive Democracy or Is Democracy the Last Recourse of the West?

Paul Craig Roberts

As our Founding Fathers knew, Democracy has many problems. One of the larger problems is that one person one vote is a poor way to make governing decisions.

One reason is that intelligence is not equally distributed. Another is that interest in the affairs of state is not equally distributed. Some people want to know what is going on and others concentrate on sports and soap operas and scrolling their cell phones in search of entertainment. Yet another reason is that some have a financial or an ideological interest in controlling the explanations that reach the public and serve as a basis for their decisions placed in the ballot box. Still others focus on putting votes in the ballot boxes that the voters themselves did not put there.

There is no doubt that democracy stinks. Founding Father John Adams gave us his view:

“Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true. Passions are the same in all men, under all forms of government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation.”.........more........

 i've been hearing about this day for several months from one remote viewer i follow sometimes;

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 an hour with max igan who asks the question: your government is supporting genocide so you might ask if they support that what do they have in mind for you. i'm about half way thru and max asks two excellent questions; what sort of world do we live in where we find laws being passed by a race, against criticizing that particular race, what sort of world is it in which you can get in trouble for calling out genocide because you might offend the murders. you can one particular religious book in a video with no trouble but if you burn another particular one, you get banned.

you may not believe your eyes as you see the gaza video;

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 for eight minutes a tictoker speaks his mind about the 'ruling class' vision we witness;

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 google won't let me publish images that aren't permitted by their original publisher in some sort of document. so i'll go round them with links to where you can find it, as if it were some variation on an easter egg hunt. looks to me as though those thirty families that rule the world, according to the orange man speaking on live tv thirty years ago have laid down the law and will do all they can to forge a one world government with one world 'views';

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