If jurisdictions with less gun control have lower crime rates why doesn't Chicago, IL reduce their overly restrictive laws?
It has nothing to do with laws present.It has everything to do with total population and population density.Say Chicago passes a law banning the sale of all firearms in city limits.Anybody in Chicago that wishes to purchase a gun will simply drive three miles to the closest location where they can legally buy the gun.Say Chicago bans open carry in city limits. Criminals will recognize that carrying rifles can lead to prison, and they stick to handguns.Say Chicago bans concealed weapons. Well, they can be concealed, and that becomes an issue.One can circumvent state laws on firearm purchases by driving to the next state.And so we get to an interesting impasse: why are the total crime rates so high?Well, now you've just dug up basic economics. Resources in a city are limited. Those include decent housing and good jobs.Poor investment in urban public schools means students get a lesser education than in suburban schools. This leads to lower graduation rates, lower college acceptance rates, and lower rates of employment. Don't believe me? Encourage a top-notch student at an inner city school that doesn't offer AP courses to apply to Harvard, MIT, or Cal Polytech. Watch how they stack against a student whose parents could afford either private school tuition or a home in a great neighborhood.Many of these students, due to constraints in their home budget, are forced to work or become homeless. School stops being a concern.If they drop out, they don't have many opportunities for decent employment, but it may be a choice between that or starving. The child in the comfortable home never has that concern.So a large minority may take up illegal activities to fix the problem. The rest get shitty minimum wage (or less) jobs within walking distance of their home. They don't have the money to move out of the city, or a car to drive to a better job market, so they stay.And then they don't have money to keep their houses maintained well, the property tax evaluation drops, and the schools stay underfunded, all the while they are stuck in a situation in which their kids have to work to keep the house afloat.Crime is hard to prevent. But deaths? We can work on that number.
What's it like living in a liberal state? How are the social attitudes in a liberal state?
I lived in Vermont for 22 years before moving to the Florida Panhandle (Pensacola).I guess I never really appreciated the generally liberal attitude Vermont has until I moved here.My first week at my job, a guy came up behind me while I was with a black co-worker and said “hey, can you help me? i don’t want to talk to any black people.” It ended up being that he was joking and knew my coworker, but that wasn’t the kind of joke I ever grew up hearing. It wasn’t funny to me, at all.Racism is deeply ingrained here. It’s an unmentioned and unquestioned part of life, that many minorities either don’t bother to confront in public or just simply don’t notice.When Dylann Roof shot nine people in Charleston and sparked a debate about what the Confederate flag represents, Pensacola residents went to the Pensacola Graffiti Bridge to paint the flag and attempt to educate their fellow citizens on what they believed it meant. I learned that night that, as one person put it to me, “that flag means n*****s sit at the back of the bus.” I still want to believe I was being trolled, but sadly I cannot. That was never something I had ever imagined happening, much less hearing, growing up in Vermont.I remember growing up in a state that legalized gay marriage early, I remember race not being much of an issue to anybody, at least as a white person. I never heard anybody spitting racist garbage about a minority group growing up in a liberal state. In the panhandle it seems like it’s hard to go a week with such a thing.I was asked once if I believed in guns, because I’d need them when the refugees came here to wage jihad. That was just last winter.But as I learn more about racial disparities and racial boundaries, I learn my own liberal state dislikes the Sudanese refugees we house and employ. I have seen comments on local cititzen swear in ceremonies in VT that complain about the lack of legitimate immigrants, something these very people were finishing up the process of.I think in liberal states, Vermont at least, racism is less overt. I cannot recall a single homophobic experience in Vermont. Racism ails the entire country, everywhere you go, however. Seeing it in it’s unchallenged state has only enabled me to more accurately identify the hidden kind I thought didn’t exist in a liberal place.
How can this be true? Do illegal aliens REALLY get better FREE health care than the US Military?
I do NOT hate immigrants. In fact, I love them, but they are so much easier to love back in their own country! I would like to go visit their country and meet them THERE.
So for a class assignment i Need ideas for a new bill. Can someone help me please with some ideas?
Think of a problem and design a bill to address this problem. What do your peers complain about most often? Do you think that the voting age should be lowered to 16, for example? Do you think the way your school handles such things as locker searches is Constitutional? Are there any examples of discrimination with which you are familiar or to which you or your friends are exposed? I suggest that you go to the website ReadTheBill.org and study a few of the bills that have come through Congress and the Senate, and this may give you some ideas on format, phrasing, and topics.