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Liberty Watch Episode 16: School Shootings Require Gun Control?
School Shootings Require Gun Control?
About the Shooting
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Broward County FL
17 dead 14 wounded
AR-15 semi-automatic weapon
FBI got a tip before the shooting occurred
Law enforcement had been to shooters home almost 40 times for disturbances
A county Sheriff’s officer assigned to the school was there when the shooting started and did nothing
A second Sheriff’s deputy arrived a few minutes into the shooting and did nothing. They waited for backup.
It was the local police that went in and faced the gunman.
After the Shooting
Publicity for the shooter. Massive news coverage.
Calls for gun control. Survivors on CNN.
The Libertarian Perspective
The failure was with the school system. They should protect the students.
Decision about what to do should be local. Security guards? Police on premises? Metal detectors? Bullet-proof compartments? Teachers with guns?
Why we have the 2nd amendment.
Citizens with guns no match for the military?
Police Cannot Protect You. Officer at School!
Police or Spy State not the answer
Trumponomics- Steel Tariffs
Do domestic steel companies need a handout?
Nucor $11/share 2003 to almost $70/share today
Domestic manufacturers >70% share of U.S. market
Tariff is just a tax paid by Americans
Effect on consumers
Effect on domestic manufacturers
Hurts exports
“Free Trade” agreements are 1000s of pages long
Tariffs were small and funded federal govt before the income tax
First income tax 1861 to fund the war between the states
Permanent income tax imposed in 1913 by 16th amendment
Sold as a tax on the rich
Gradually came to affect almost all wage earners
Now we have incomes taxes and tariffs
Libertarian Perspective
Tariffs interfere with freedom of exchange
International trade is just trade with people in a different country
Tariffs allow politicians to help one group at the expense of another
Taxes deny self-ownership
Libertarian Humor
Multiculturalism
Definition
The view that the various cultures in a society merit equal respect and scholarly interest.
Used a part of identity politics by the left to garner votes
All cultures are not consistent with American values
Articles
Indonesian Christians flogged outside of mosque for violating sharia law…
…Indonesia publicly caned two Christians in a rare case of non-Muslims punished under sharia law.
The two Indonesian Christians – Dahlan Silitonga, 61, and Tjia Nyuk Hwa, 45 – were whipped six and seven times respectively by a masked man wearing a robe, as a crowd of 300 ridiculed and took pictures of them outside a mosque in the provincial capital
Does gambling violate the NAP? No.
Merkel Admits ‘No Go’ Zones Exist Inside Germany
The existence of no-go zones in Europe had been a matter of debate — with liberal commentators insisting they were a fiction — even after Breitbart London editor in chief published his work on the subject, No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You. The admission by Merkel is a vindication for Kassam and others who have chronicled No Go Zones and their causes for years.
Michigan doctor charged with carrying out female genital mutilation
Jumana Nagarwala is accused of performing FGM on girls aged between six and eight for the past 12 years from a medical office in the Detroit suburb of Livonia
From Wikipedia: The practice is rooted in gender inequality, attempts to control women’s sexuality, and ideas about purity, modesty and beauty. It is usually initiated and carried out by women, who see it as a source of honour, and who fear that failing to have their daughters and granddaughters cut will expose the girls to social exclusion.[8] Health effects depend on the procedure. They can include recurrent infections, difficulty urinating and passing menstrual flow, chronic pain, the development of cysts, an inability to get pregnant, complications during childbirth, and fatal bleeding.[7] There are no known health benefits.[9]
India state to give life sentences for cow slaughter
Cows are considered sacred in Hindu-majority India, and their slaughter is illegal in most states.
“A cow is not an animal. It is a symbol of universal life,” Gujarat Law Minister Pradipsinh Jadeja told the state’s assembly.
“Anybody who does not spare the cow, the government will not spare him.”
Two men publicly caned in Indonesia for having gay sex…
Two men were lashed with a cane as punishment for having same-sex relations, part of a growing intolerance of sexual minorities that has marked the rise of more conservative Islam in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.
Saudi campaigners protest over the right to drive
Women campaigners in Saudi Arabia are filming themselves walking silently in the street in an attempt to claim the right to drive.
The online campaign is a protest against restrictions, which prevent women from doing everyday things unless they are in the presence of a male guardian.
Pakistan sentences man to death for blasphemy on FACEBOOK…
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive topic in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where insulting the Prophet Mohammad is a capital crime for which dozens are sitting on death row. Even mere accusations are enough to spark mass uproar and mob justice.
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