We need honest government with integrity.
“Good leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion”
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Action speaks louder than words.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Freedom is not an ideal; it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
Action speaks louder than words.
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics, a person with principles.
”The benchmark of a civilized society is the quality of its justice”
YJ Draiman for Mayor -2013
PS
Voting: In the United States, it is often said that those not voting in elections have no right to complain about the outcome. Voting is extolled as our primary civic duty, and the most legitimate means to express protest.
Let's look at the six cities with the highest crime rate, in order: Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, DC. (per capita, FBI, 2015)
ReplyDeleteOf those, Chicago, NY, Philly, and Chicago make it virtually impossible to even own a handgun, much less concealed. LA it's easy to buy a handgun, but carrying concealed is virtually impossible.
Yes, all of these cities have large populations, but one thing is for certain – a higher concentration of guns does not mean a higher concentration of crime.
With something like this, just saying "correlation does not equal causation" can effectively stop an argument, because there are dozens of variables.
Though in interviews, criminals have flat out said that if they know someone has a gun, they'll avoid them and go rob someone else.
Let's look at the six cities with the highest crime rate, in order: Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, DC. (per capita, FBI, 2015)
ReplyDeleteOf those, Chicago, NY, Philly, and Chicago make it virtually impossible to even own a handgun, much less concealed. LA it's easy to buy a handgun, but carrying concealed is virtually impossible.
Yes, all of these cities have large populations, but one thing is for certain – a higher concentration of guns does not mean a higher concentration of crime.
With something like this, just saying "correlation does not equal causation" can effectively stop an argument, because there are dozens of variables.
Though in interviews, criminals have flat out said that if they know someone has a gun, they'll avoid them and go rob someone else.