Posted on 02/15/2019 6:04:21 PM PST by daniel1212
One word: Mexico.
Unlike the US, Switzerland has mandatory military service for men. All men between the ages of 18 and 34 deemed “fit for service” are given a pistol or a rifle and trained. After they’ve finished their service, the men can typically buy and keep their service weapons, but they have to get a permit for them.
Roughly a quarter of the gun-toting Swiss use their weapons for military or police duty. In 2000, more than 25% of Swiss gun owners said they kept their weapon for military or police duty, while less than 5% of Americans said the same..
Murders in US very concentrated: 54% of US counties in 2014 had zero murders, 2% of counties have 51% of the murders
Red parts of the map look a lot like the Hillary vote....
Sorry, but communists are sneaky. If that’s the best the authors can do, it’s a stealth gun control paper in my view.
Demographics control the cities, the counties, the states, the nations and basically the world.
In about 10 years the low birth rates of American Citizens will be impacted more each year with abortion, legal and illegal immigration.
How many major American cities/counties are facing severe economic disasters which are being delayed/postponed by high taxes in those areas and state and government funding from those still working and paying taxes in those areaas
When that fails, their Democrat and Rino Thugs in Congre$$ will take more tax $’s from the people in states, where workers still pay even more tons of taxes to delay the coming economic disasters in the above cities, counties and states.
Quora is both liberal claptrap as well as a daily source of multitudes of very able conservation responses to questions. It depends on what you are looking for, and I do not usually get liberal answers in my feed.
Some relevant posts on Quora
Will the Republican Party unfortunately succeed in turning America into the same nightmare Germany was in 1933-1946? Sam Share Sam Share, VHS, RPI Troy, Albany Med, KMC Manipal
How do I overcome my hatred toward conservatives, and what they stand for? Perry Jones Perry Jones, Investment Advisor (2013-present)
Why is the Venezuelan military supporting Maduro? Victor Amaya Victor Amaya, lived in Venezuela (1990-2019)
Are liberals or conservatives more tolerant of opposing views? Obinna Onwuchekwa, avid follower of US politics
What made you become a conservative? Rigoberto Manchenko
However, there are also those on both sides who think using vulgar language helps their argument, or is a substitute for lack of one, or who just do not care.
Thanks. That is quite a page. Excerpts:
The worst 1% of counties have 19% of the population and 37% of the murders. The worst 5% of counties contain 47% of the population and account for 68% of murders. As shown in figure 2, over half of murders occurred in only 2% of counties.
Murders actually used to be even more concentrated. From 1977 to 2000, on average 73 percent of counties in any give year had zero murders. Possibly, this change is a result of the opioid epidemic’s spread to more rural areas..
54% of counties have zero murders, 69% have at most one murder, 76% have at most two murders, and so on. To put it differently, only the top four percent of the counties have 16 or more murders.. - https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/number-murders-county-54-us-counties-2014-zero-murders-69-1-murder/
What could be useful is a chart showing the percentage of producers - those putting into the system at least most of their life - versus those who are on welfare at least most of their life, and the amounts of each.
And yes, "the Pill" and abortion (terminating 1 out of 3 or 4 pregnancies) certainly has been deleterious to the family (partly responsible for the snowflake generation) and the system.
Leave out certain urban areas in Michigan and the state is as safe as many Western European nations.
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