Fact: Guns can not be "un-invented." No such thing. They exist, and they will continue to exist. There's no way around this fact.

I fully support the 2nd Amendment. I understand that the 1st Amendment keeps the 2nd Amendment enabled, and the 2nd Amendment keeps the 1st Amendment enabled. Have you noticed that? So, what do you suppose would happen if we retracted one of them? NOT GONNA HAPPEN. I disallow it!

That being established, let's talk about guns. It's been said many times "Guns don't kill people, people kill people with guns." I'm glad we understand that, because we don't make laws for guns, we make laws for people.

Background checks for guns don't work. Universal background checks are an improvement in the sense that it covers ALL sales, regardless of where it takes place, but, still not a solution. In fact, it wouldn't change anything over all. Why? The database used by the FBI is missing millions of records. Another problem is that background checks look at people who are already considered high risk, and people who have no criminal history. What it doesn't do is look at people in the 3rd category, that of people who can be dangerous but do not yet have a record.

We should have to have a mandatory firearm safety course before all sales. Then, we should have to fill out a form at the police station, complete with fingerprints and a background check. Following that, all local agencies of places you have lived are directly contacted, as well as the department of mental health. Currently, in Massachusetts, this process takes about 3 weeks to do. This would defuse anyone who wants to buy a gun in the heat of being angry, allowing them to cool off, before they commit a crime with the gun they purchased in only 5 minutes.

There, that wasn't so bad, now was it? A licensing system makes sense. In Connecticut, this lowered homicide and suicide by guns, but in Missouri, where they repealed this system, both of those went up. You do the math.
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Renewable is a misnomer. It should be called Continuous Energy. The sun never stops putting out tons of energy, the wind is always blowing somewhere on the planet, and the ocean waves never cease, thanks to the moon. Fossil fuels can't even come close.

I'm assuming we know why fossil fuels are not refereed to as "renewable," right? That's correct. It's because they are not renewable. We are going to be ready, or we are not. I choose to be ready for when they run out. Some estimates put this at around 2050!
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Watching my roommate suffer and die was not a pleasant experience. The only thing that comforted him in his last days? You guessed it, weed. As long as we are sensible about it, I have no issues with it. Sure, we can restrict driving while high and such, but there are so many things we can do with it that it boggles the mind. Legalize it across the board!
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Let's clear up some obvious confusion. Climate, not weather. Global, not local.
There was never a "debate" over climate change. This was propagated by Exxon Mobile, the very same company who hired the scientists who discovered it in the first place. Instead of diversifying, they double downed on fossil fuels and placed ads that looked like "news" stories to present an opposing view they made up.
Don't believe it? Perhaps we can do experiments together so you can see for yourself that climate change is real. I will try to even make a video you can follow along to. The science is in, and it does exist.
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Question: What military action can you perform that will bring world peace? The only one that I can think of is nuke the world, which is obviously not the way we want peace.

Question: If your neighbor was tending her children, would you feel unsafe? What if he was stocking up grenades?
What we do can be seen by others. If we do aggressive things, we make others worry. If we do passive things, we make others feel safe. This is not complicated.

Our troops are supposed to protect our nation as a last resort, not go off and get killed fighting for the petrodollar. Bring them home.

If we cut military spending in half, we could do much more positive things than we can currently imagine, but first, we need to get rid of the paranoid "Everyone wants to take our freedom away" rhetoric. It's simply not true.
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Hugely important for obvious reasons. I don't want to be on a bridge with a "deficient" rating on it's report card. If it needs repaired, it takes priority over a great many other things. Wouldn't you agree?

Here I ranked it as "70%" in importance on the graph above. What I mean is that it could easily jump to the top of the list at any point if deemed necessary, but I'm more inclined to work on health care and well being as priorities.
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Corporations are basically their own small governments, and exploit workers. The worst offenders use welfare programs to pass the wages they should be paying onto the public.
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