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I very much object to power being given to the police to judge whether a person is fit to have a firearm or not. I hope the Committee will not give such a power to the them … giving the right to the police to decide a point of this kind is quite a new development in this country, and is contrary to English practice. In England, the police are very respected public servants; on the Continent they are petty officials with tremendous powers, which they use to the full and are not conducive to the free development of those nations. We do not want that kind of thing here.
– MP Lt. Cdr. Kenworthy, Parliamentary Debates [1920]
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November 1, 2024
The Left Loves and Hates the Poor ([link removed])
One of the shibboleths of progressives (i.e., “liberals” or leftists) is that they love the poor. However, the truth is more complex. Actually they only love the poor when they remain poor. If the poor get rich, they then hate them.Consider, for example, four American multimillionaires from the Gilded Age, which is my favorite period of time in...
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