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Re: Number Of Handgun Owners Carrying Daily Nearly Doubles In US

In the article “Number Of Handgun Owners Carrying Daily Nearly Doubles In US” referenced in Editor’s Notes, does the phrase “”Proportionally fewer handgun owners carried handguns in states where issuing authorities had substantial discretion in granting permits,” the study’s authors said.. refer to may issue instead of must issue states. Perhaps it was comparing Constitutional carry to licensed carry jurisdictions. One wonders how Bruen affects this. What amazes and worries me is the number of people even in state with owner friendly gun laws that fear not only criminals and the criminally insane but also their law-abiding neighbors going “heavy.”

Albert Perez
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I read it as referring to “may issue” states vs. “shall issue”. — editor

RE: What Can You Learn About “The Green New Deal” from Thanksgiving?

Debt auditing explains why the left is always greeting about corporations and rich people not paying their fair share of taxes. Of course, the minor detail that only about 126 million people out of about 333 million pay income tax kind of disappears in the rhetorical shuffle. Mind you, arguably income tax is extorted protection paid to the Res Nostra (Government as organized crime), so we should be congratulating people for outsmarting the Mob, instead of busting their chops. (An aside, 88 million Americans are minor children or full time students, and reasonably should not be paying taxes.)

Speaking of Governor Bradford, there is a story that he one time caught some Irish apprentices (indentured servants) drinking beer and bowling on Christmas instead of working. When he called them down on this, they answered that it was against their faith to work on Christmas. The good Governor replied “And it’s against mine to let you bowl.”

There is a point about religious freedom here, I just don’t know how to state it clearly.

Albert Perez
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