Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Timcast"
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"Give me the right to bear arms?" No Tim. The right exists. Nobody can GIVE it to you. And nobody should be able to TAKE it FROM you. RIGHTs exist independent of government. Rights supersede FEDERAL governmental authority.
That said, we have a long tradition of frontier towns passing local ordinances against open carry. EVERYbody open-carried when the towns were first established and the only women in town were prostitutes. But when WIVES started arriving, schools and churches started being built, drovers hitting town after a long trail, armed with pistols (a necessity in those times), the womenfolk wouldn't have it.
The basic rule of thumb is: the more chaotic the situation, the more people can and should bear arms, legally. In the communities where gun violence is WORST, I would END the local gun-control ordinances against the law-abiding carrying (concealed or openly), until the thugs simmer down. Then maybe get civilized, again, and pass ordinances against guns. It's all about the number of thugs per square foot. Nothing like an expectation that the citizen you're fixin' to rob or beat has a gun on 'em to change the calculation and persuade you that an honest job is more profitable and less risky.
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"Regular people" have NEVER been C-SPAN callers, Tim. They're left, right and in-between, but they've always been a very small minority of civic-minded, politically-aware individuals. I recommend a year or three of C-SPAN addiction for everybody. Nothing like sitting through a Congressional committee hearing to learn just how freakin' STUPID and absolutely partisan most of our politicians actually are, or some of the horrific decisions being made thousands of miles away by total assholes, who pretend like THEY'RE being generous, when it's YOU who's footing the bill for their billion-dollar study of the snail-darter or honey bees!
They throw money around like it's WATER, and make out like THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING, when really all they're doing is throwing money down a rat-hole, in order to look good to some interest group or political action committee or industrial cartel for their OWN power.
C-SPAN also carries major events like MISES Institute, or Council on Foreign Relations or "think tank" of your choice, so you know what they're ACTUALLY pushing for, and their reasoning. I don't think it takes more than a year or so for a person to see how The Swamp works, and become much more conservative/libertarian in their outlook, although quite a few who go in hard-core liberal come out much the same. That's OK. Not everybody gets it. And I certainly don't get everything. I just came away from my early-'80s C-SPAN addiction pissed off at all the decisions being made in Washington that were NONE OF WASHINGTON'S DAMN BUSINESS. But that's just me.
I think everybody would benefit from seeing how the sausage gets made. But it's not for everyone. It's very tedious and boring, but you DO get to call in on a national t.v. program and have your voice heard! Those call-in shows are KILLER!
Of COURSE government's way too big. There's no penalty for spending more. Just praise. And there's no award for being prudent and thrifty with taxpayers' money. Somebody testifying about a problem? We'll just fix it with ANOTHER multi-million- or multi-billion-dollar program, because NONE of their privileged lives will be affected. Only the working class and middle class will feel the pinch, when the bill comes due. And we KNOW that government is the most wasteful institution in the land. 20 or 30 cents on appropriated funds are all that go to the actual problem. 70 or 80 cents on every dollar just goes into the pockets of the permanent ruling-class bureaucrats and their always-expanding staffs.
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