Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: certain unalienable Rights [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)because you can use the money saved from dismantling the empire (and ending the war on drugs) to rebuilding communities, neighborhood schools, infrastructure, education, public health, green energy and other cool stuff. $700 billion a year is a shit load of money. Get Mitt and his trust fund buddies to pay their share to close the wealth gap. All of that would do more to curb gun and gang violence than any feel good law. Compare federal gun laws and violent crime rates in the 1950s with 1986 or today. Street gangs rarely used guns back then, even though they didn't need straw buyers or smugglers. They just needed a Sears catalogue and a money order.
But it has some to do with a Swiss style military, but it also has to do with what was (then) a very progressive concept, individual sovereignty vs being a subject to the Crown, State, or corporation (some places in India, and IIRC, Virginia were literally under corporate rule.)