I take the view that citizens should not be banned for owning just about any kind of gun you can think of, but the more dangerous one's should be locked up and only used when there is reason to do so. Not for committing crimes of course, but more for self defense purposes or in the case of anarchy in the streets, suddenly you are your own police at that point. That being said, those guns and pretty much any guns should be controlled carefully and as safely as possible using a gun safe or whatever extra measure to ensure they don't fall into the wrong hands when not needed for an actual legitimate reason. You hope you never have to ever use them just like nuclear weapons between countries. So disarming the people is a big no no in our country unless you have been found to be mentally unstable or used them to commit crimes.
Laws that end up eating away at this basic right, like you can't have this, or can't have that because we said so, are all a means to chip away at our basic constitutional rights.
The second amendment was written the way it was to prevent those in power from reversing this important right and many more rights, and taking it away from the people. What they are slowly and methodically trying to do in stages is reducing "the right to bare arms" into "the right to own a pea shooter" which is clearly not what it says, but that's what they want. At that point the pea shooters can then be confiscated easily and along with it even more rights.
We probably go down the road of digital currency first before that happens, and your life could be shut down instantly by denying all ability to use your earned income. That's game over for all of us.
Consumers (like you and me) pay the tariffs
If you live here in the U.S., please purchase American products as much as possible. That's what tariffs do, they make the decision easier for you to make the right one. Your not forced to purchase anything as you suggest. What happens to all that tariff money when no one buys foreign goods anymore or reduces them significantly?
Now you might know that China's products are embedded in just about everything so it's tough to find anything truly and wholly made in America anymore, so obviously it will take a very long time to swing the pendulum back in the other direction. It just doesn't happen overnight. How long has the no tariff policy been in place for China? A very long time. So of course it's not going to be immediately apparent right away how beneficial it really is to have these tariffs in place. They are really there to prevent a trade imbalance, plain and simple. Ideally, we should be able to trade equally and fairly, but China doesn't want to play that game, they would rather have the casino rules where they always win.
The more immediate issue is our runaway national debt and not bringing in enough economic growth to support it. Not having the tariffs in place, will just speed our financial ruin a lot quicker. It's not a perfect solution to anything, but it's a step in the right direction. Getting us into many wars and creating trillion dollar spending bills is definitely not a step in the right direction. Paying for things with money printed out of thin air is not a step in the right direction.
Where have you been?
