1950s Nostalgia
Icey
I put your ATF on a winning team
What does it for some???
- Segregation
- Institutionalized Misogyny
- McCarthyism
- The threat of WW 3
- The Red Scare
- Segregation
- Institutionalized Misogyny
- McCarthyism
- The threat of WW 3
- The Red Scare
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White people need to be silenced
All men are bad
Trump's a Russian operative
We're going to war with NoKo
Lol at red scare... We have political leaders embracing communism
Now if we had a Republican like Eisenhower at least....
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Some or this is accurate in the present context. The only major piece of legislation in the past three years was a corporate tax cut which went primarily to stock- buybacks and did *not* stimulate business investment. The tax cut pushed our deficit over one trillion, and I guarantee the deficit will be used as an excuse to cut entitlements if Trump is reelected.
Something is wrong when top 400 individuals have same net worth as bottom 160,000,000.
Whoever said the wall was to keep Mexicans out? The wall is to keep people from entering the United States illegally. The USA is not the only country in the world that protects its borders. You guys make it sound criminal to prevent crime.
Go to bed tonight with your garage door open, your car unlocked, and leave the keys on the seat.
Should this be in the political room?
But no one is as great as 21st century Japan. 2,400 felonies committed in a country of 125 million people. There are more people murdered in Baltimore alone than in the entire country of Japan. On top of having the lowest rate of crime in the world, it has the highest life expectancy, a minuscule rate of obesity despite being a rich country, a legal, booming prostitution industry with very hot girls despite low prices, and of course, possibly the cutest and most feminine girls in the world.
SJG
Restricting guns works once you have gotten everything else under control. It didn't work in Mexico and Central America because they already had a crisis of criminal violence going on. It has reduced crime in Japan because they never had a crisis of crime to begin with. The country has had very low rates of violent crime for decades. Gun control measures are unlikely to work in the United States because we already have so many guns floating around and we have a small crisis of criminal violence (although nowhere near as bad as Mexico's obviously).
Japan's success in having extremely low crime rates is really more of a cultural success. They have created a culture where crime is not seen as an option, and where excuses for crime are mitigated. I also will say that America has a rage problem that Japan doesn't have. There are a lot of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum who are extremely angry at certain groups of people. This phenomenon largely does not seem to exist in Japan. I'd say that curing the rage problem will go much further in reducing crime than restricting guns would.
Well there you go, the liberal left’s answer to anyone that disagrees With them. As a firs resort call them names even when they propose facts and intelligence. It’s people like VD_Kicks that will get Trump elected again. By the way, CC has never claimed to hold any political leaning. He is as Independent as they come, and sees things as they are, without political bias.
Good job CC, you’ve shown maturity beyond your attacker from the left, VD_Kicks.
@VH_Kicks
If Japan was to completely reverse their gun policy, I wouldn't be surprised if crime went up a little bit, but I'm willing to bet it would still remain at extremely low levels well below the US and Europe. Japan doesn't have the gang problem we have, they don't have ethnic tensions, they don't have political divisions, and family values in Japan are very strong so it cuts down on domestic violence. All of these factors are what has eliminated the rage problem that does exist pretty much everywhere else in the world. The criminal culture in Japan largely just doesn't exist. Even the Yakuza gangs only have 40,000 members across all of them and their membership is constantly declining because pretty much nobody has any interest in being a part of that lifestyle.
Japan, the UK, and Australia have all had relatively low rates of crime compared to the US for decades. The UK's crime rate has actually risen if you look further back in history. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the UK's homicide rate hovered between 0.60 to 0.75 per 100,000. The police infamously didn't even carry guns back then. During the 1980s, it was just starting to consistently breach 1.00 per 100,000. In 2002, it peaked at 2.1 per 100,000. Since then it has gone down to about 1.2 per 100,000.
Australia in 1989 and 1990 had a homicide rate of 1.8 per 100,000. A little higher than it is today but it still had a very low crime rate compared to the US. In order to go back to a time when the UK and Australia did have significant problems with criminal violence, you probably would have to go all the way back to the 19th century.
If the US outlawed guns, we'd be much more likely to face an increase in homicide rates than to become like a Western European country. The gangs would illegally keep all their weapons and all the lawful citizens would give their guns up. So as far as criminals go you'd accomplish nothing. If your country is already having a problem with criminal violence, then disarming the citizenry is a really bad idea. Disarming the citizenry is only a good idea when the reasons for criminal behavior happening in the first place have been addressed.
About the 50's, good book:
https://www.amazon.com/Way-We-Never-Were…
SJG