Any reason you didn't talk to Dr. John Lott? This is his area of expertise, probably more so than your two guests.
I noted that Rajiv seems to understand the context of the Second Amendment better than most Americans: distrust of the government. And why is that so hard to grasp these days? Over the last 20 years, the government has giv…
Any reason you didn't talk to Dr. John Lott? This is his area of expertise, probably more so than your two guests.
I noted that Rajiv seems to understand the context of the Second Amendment better than most Americans: distrust of the government. And why is that so hard to grasp these days? Over the last 20 years, the government has given us LOADS of reasons to not trust them. One would be stupid to assume that if the right to self defense was eliminated that our elected representatives would start acting like angels. No, they would quickly escalate their abuses of power, and in very short order we would have a dictatorship in place. Oh, we might have elections in which 96.6% of the people vote for the person already in power.
But let's address what no one really wants to address: the increase in fatherless families brought on by democrat parties in urban areas. That's about as close to a social laboratory as you can get since almost all urban areas have been run by Democrats for decades. That's one variable you don't have to worry about. That will take a couple of generations to fix, if anyone ever has the fortitude to take it on: which I highly doubt.
Of course there was. John Lott would have actually presented a contrary view. Instead she did what the NY Times trained her to do: get a Leftist and a moderate and say you're going to have a debate. Then you spend the whole time asking the moderate which of the Leftist proposals his side (which he doesn't really represent anyway) can get on board with.
I would second the John Lott recommendation. I cannot even fathom how the left envisions this surrendering of weapons would go for this very reason. Folks that don’t trust the government and own several guns often don’t have them all registered to them and at least in our case, have them stored numerous different places. Would this be a door to door search and seizure? And what army is going to volunteer for that job? We thought summer of 2020 riot control was dangerous for law enforcement, it would be small potatoes compared to that task. The Australia approach referenced in the podcast would never work in the U.S. and any attempt would be violating more than just the 2nd amendment.
Any reason you didn't talk to Dr. John Lott? This is his area of expertise, probably more so than your two guests.
I noted that Rajiv seems to understand the context of the Second Amendment better than most Americans: distrust of the government. And why is that so hard to grasp these days? Over the last 20 years, the government has given us LOADS of reasons to not trust them. One would be stupid to assume that if the right to self defense was eliminated that our elected representatives would start acting like angels. No, they would quickly escalate their abuses of power, and in very short order we would have a dictatorship in place. Oh, we might have elections in which 96.6% of the people vote for the person already in power.
But let's address what no one really wants to address: the increase in fatherless families brought on by democrat parties in urban areas. That's about as close to a social laboratory as you can get since almost all urban areas have been run by Democrats for decades. That's one variable you don't have to worry about. That will take a couple of generations to fix, if anyone ever has the fortitude to take it on: which I highly doubt.
Of course there was. John Lott would have actually presented a contrary view. Instead she did what the NY Times trained her to do: get a Leftist and a moderate and say you're going to have a debate. Then you spend the whole time asking the moderate which of the Leftist proposals his side (which he doesn't really represent anyway) can get on board with.
I would second the John Lott recommendation. I cannot even fathom how the left envisions this surrendering of weapons would go for this very reason. Folks that don’t trust the government and own several guns often don’t have them all registered to them and at least in our case, have them stored numerous different places. Would this be a door to door search and seizure? And what army is going to volunteer for that job? We thought summer of 2020 riot control was dangerous for law enforcement, it would be small potatoes compared to that task. The Australia approach referenced in the podcast would never work in the U.S. and any attempt would be violating more than just the 2nd amendment.