Renart wrote:
Well, being a lefty I tend to agree that our massive levels of social and economic inequality do have something to do with our high rate of violence, but it's not straightforward. New York City has extreme inequality, but a lower rate of violence than a lot of smaller and relatively more equal cities in the South do. But a purely cultural explanation doesn't necessarily get us that far, either, since New York did have high levels of violence in the sixties through the eighties.
Maybe ignoring the second amendment, extremely curtailing the 4th amendment and racial profiling has worked. ummmm.....Yay?
Anyway, I would completely vote for a swiss style militia to replace most of the US Army (We can keep the 101st, 82nd, rangers and the berets ...I guess and also the marines on full-time alert). I mean, we already have the national guard. Just make the guard mandatory when you turn 18 and then just go "1 weekend a month, two weeks" until you're 30.
Also, with no way to dodge it by going to college. You can just train for support work if you're anti-shooting people.
In return, the gun nuts can have all the ammo they can shoot while training. Since I hear that's expensive, they might go for it. Also, if they're not a total fucktard, they might get to keep their national guard rifle. That seems like a fair deal to me.
Let's face it, no one is actually going to invade the US and more importantly this would keep us from invading anyone else. I mean, the US has more carriers and nuclear subs than the rest of the world combined. Plus all those silos in montana. An professional army is superfluous and a massive waste of money.
But you know, it would ruin the whole military-industrial complex. So all those generals wont get their kickback and neither will the senators with bases providing massive government stimulus in their district, will never give up that golden goose.
