We’ve all heard the adage, “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”

It has a nice ring to it, but it really doesn’t hold water in the real world, where counties with strict gun laws, e.g., Japan, England, and Australia have very low rates of violent crime.

Note: these countries don’t have an NRA, a fabulously wealthy lobbying organization that controls their lawmaking apparatus.

Moreover, outside the United States, it’s very hard to find a place where a potentially mentally unstable person can go into a store and walk out with a weapon of war, capable of killing 50+ people each minute.

Gun Laws

Actually, it wouldn’t have required a PhD in chemistry to predict what would happen to a large pool of untreated fresh water during a hot summer in our nation’s capital.

Maybe Firing All Those Scientists Wasn’t Such a Good Idea

No one doubts that China is trying to take over the world; in fact, it could be argued that this has been an on-going effort for the last 6000 years.

Yet, unlike the United States, these people are patient and prefer to accomplish this task economically rather than militarily.

American Imperialism