Re: Vee's Thread of GAD and World Domination
Originally Posted by
Pamplemousse
Sadly Vee, in the last five to ten years the UK Government has proven it's now available to the highest bidder and will chuck money around like confetti to the friends of cabinet ministers. It makes some old African governments look a model of probity now. Not for nothing do I call the UK a "Banana Monarchy".
I feel like in some ways though, you're ahead of us. You all made Uber treat it's full-time employees like full-time employees, and give them benefits. We couldn't do that here in CA; and that was on the ballot in the last election.
CA actually has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, but we also have the most mass shootings if you define a mass shooting as having 4+ victims. We also have the most people. We also have mass shootings from perpetrators that come here out of state. But if you count mass shootings with 2+ victims, Louisiana is the most dangerous state. Texas, the state with the least restrictive gun laws has a fatality rate that is 40% more than California. Chicago, Illinois though, is still the city with the worst murder rate.
Although I'm sure LB will have a field day with all of these statistics, my point is that our policy of federalism is both constraining and freeing. Gun laws are left up to the state governments, as there is nothing in the national laws that holds them in the purview of the national government, other than the 2nd amendment. Unless the Supreme Court were to receive a case, or Congress were to pass a national law, it would be very hard for anything to happen nation wide. Even an executive order would only last as long as that president was in office, and that's if SCOTUS were not to rule against it. At the same time, federalism is also nice, because you can move to a state with the gun laws that you approve of...
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