I guarantee the crime rate and all gun crime would plummet in this country if we had - universal healthcare that includes mental health services - minimum wage that covered minimum living expenses - a culture that glamorized seeking care as much as we glamorize guns - controls on large corporations, i.e. price gouging and efforts to destroy organized labor/collective bargaining These things drastically reduce all crime more than anything else. Far more than any gun control ever could. In fact, no country has ever curbed gun crime or murder rates without improving in these areas.
The United States government has no interest in providing for the people who live in the United States. We are fuel to them, not humans. The social contract is all but dissolved. The police are a brute squad protecting corporate property only. Things will never be good again, and the people who live in the United States understand that.
George Carlin - It's a Big Club and You Ain't In It! The American Dream George Carlin knew it long ago.
Living wages, not minimum. The problem with minimum wage or a raise in these wages is an immediate and unchecked inflation and as you said price gouging at the hands of corporations and greedy mofos.
Raising minimum wage helps the poor far more than it hurts anyone else though. We've seen it in pockets all over the country. Sure, there were some price increases, but it wasn't bad untill COVID hit and all of the boomers started retiring, causing inflation worldwide... But yes. Corporations are greedy mofos. By design.
The problem with a "livable wage" is that is only temporary. Cost of living goes right up with broad wage increases. There really needs to be some serious regulation on living cost increases otherwise it's an inflation death spiral.
Covenant School employee said staff members carried guns A person hiding under a desk during the shooting at the Covenant School told the 911 dispatcher that one or two staff members carry guns. At 10:12:05 a.m. Monday, a woman calling from the office of the nursery said, "We do have a school person, or two ... I'm not sure ... who would be packing, whose job it is for security. We don't have security guards, but we have staff." She did not name who typically carried weapons, and it is not clear whether those staff members were at the school at the time of the shooting. Six people were killed in the shooting Monday in Nashville. Police arrived within minutes and killed the shooter, a 28-year-old former student. Officials released two dozen 911 calls and recordings of emergency dispatches from the shooting on Thursday. A recurring debate around school shootings is whether casualties could be lessened by arming teachers. Police have not indicated that any employee at the Covenant School had a gun or fired at the shooter. Fourteen minutes into the call, the woman under the desk began to pray. "Oh Lord in Jesus' name," she said. "Help the policemen do what they need to do." https://www.tennessean.com/story/ne...-said-staff-members-carried-guns/70066418007/
This is a very interesting development. If the teachers with guns were onsight during the shooting the school is libel. If the teachers with guns were NOT onsight during the shooting the school is libel.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/20...op-in-mass-shootings-what-the-data-shows.html The above article seems to contradict the statements @Phatguysrule has made in the past. I could be wrong, but I thought I would post it.
Thanks for posting. It doesn't really contradict anything i've said. 7.2 to 5.2 is a pretty meaningless change, considering the general drop in violent crime over the entire time frame (starting before the ban, and continuing after the ban). You can change your definition of what a mass shooting is to flip those numbers around. Using the later data simply shows an era where the media and social media have created a lot of copycats, and we've had deteriorating access to education and healthcare, and less money and opportunity than we had in the 90s. The 90s were pretty good for the middle class and poor in the US.
Fun fact decimal points are actually drawings of bullet holes specifically added to intimidate and remind numbers of their place.
https://www.kgw.com/amp/article/tra...RqV2qWM0tDZ2kykCwfptqMOvlPVxtMhnSR4gGLgn2YSpY Holy smokes, I sat next to the witness at Easter brunch. So glad she's safe. Wtf is going on in this world? I was following the story a bit but I was slammed at work and they weren't releasing any info. First thing I see in my Instagram when I sit down at home is her account of what happened. Shit! That'd be terrifying!
