Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "Assassination Attempt on Slovakia's Prime Minister Fico || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. The Trump comment is very telling. For one thing, Trump scaled back government and went after the administrative state. He actually targeted some Federal programs to cities with large minority populations that vote Democrat. Trumps voters are not, as far as I can tell, looking for handouts. They just want the government to get out of the way of their getting good jobs. For example, the US would likely have a foreign trade surplus if Biden and the Democrats would get out of the way of the oil and gas industry. Is that a handout? As President Joe likes to say: Come on man! As for the gun toting Lauren Bobert and rural types being violent, you have to be kidding me. Where do the vast majority of the murders occur? It is in liberal cities with the strictest gun laws. Peter, I thought you were into data and facts. My ex-wife's mother was from a rural, farming area. Probably not too far from where you grew up but not in Iowa. While I was going down to her hometown a lot, to hunt and shoot guns, there was one murder. In their history. Mind you I went down there over a period of 25 or more years and got to know the people well. The thing is that this murder was a stabbing. The victim and perpetrator were brothers, and the stabbing took place in the adjoining state. The murderer then drove across the Mississippi where he was apprehended. I have a friend who lives in a large city and has a county place in a very rural part of an adjoining state. I was visiting him there and we were shooting a bunch of guns off his deck. His neighbor, a farmer, came by to join in. During our conversation he strongly suggested that my friend get a gun of his own to keep in the house. The people there all had guns and they didn't even lock their doors at night. I live in a large suburban city near a large city. The people here have lots of guns. I am willing to bet that there are more guns per capita than in the big city nearby, which by the way has a high murder rate. There have been two fatal police shootings, both justified, in city's almost 200-year history. Both fully justified (and both by the same officer). Both assailants were mentally unstable an armed (one with a gun and one with a knife). I can only remember one murder in the 32 years I have been here, and it was a stabbing in a bar. So, you may want to rethink your attitude a bit.
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