The Oil Drum | Ten Reasons Why High Oil Prices Are a Problem

The Oil Drum | Ten Reasons Why High Oil Prices Are a Problem

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Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm - Newsweek and The Daily Beast: Violence by firearms is most prevalent in big cities with the strictest gun laws. In Chicago and Washington, D.C., for example, it is only the criminals who have guns, the law-abiding populace having been disarmed, and so crime runs riot.

Cities of similar size in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and elsewhere, which leave the citizen the right to keep and bear arms, guaranteed in the Constitution, typically are much safer. More legal guns equal less crime. What criminal would be foolish enough to rob a gun store? But the government alleges that the citizen does not need this or that gun, number of guns, or amount of ammunition.

Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm - Newsweek and The Daily Beast: As rules by the Government are one-size-fits-all, any governmental determination of an individual’s abilities must be based on a bureaucratic assessment of the lowest possible denominator. The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm - Newsweek and The Daily Beast: All of us have had dealings with the State, and have found, to our chagrin, or, indeed, terror, that we were not dealing with well-meaning public servants or even with ideologues but with overworked, harried bureaucrats. These, as all bureaucrats, obtain and hold their jobs by complying with directions and suppressing the desire to employ initiative, compassion, or indeed, common sense. They are paid to follow orders.