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“Magazines greater than 10 rounds are for terrorists and gangsters” -- Untruth

“Magazines greater than 10 rounds are for terrorists and gangsters” There are many issues that fall outside logic here. Law Enforcement  The most obvious distinction is: What about those put in charge of enforcing legislative actions?* Do they also qualify as “Terrorists and gangsters” or do those whom that have been called law enforcement, military, federal agents, etc, get a special convenience? I suppose by the above statement the logic would be, “well, they need more rounds to fight against the terrorists that are breaking the law!” Thus:  Creating Class System  I shall explain this by analogy. If we take the same distinction of how things are held and the use of a magazine to simplify holding ammunition, then let us assume that instead of bullets we are talking about dollars and instead of magazines we are talking about the size of the bill and that terrorists and gangsters are replaced with some other ‘corporate’ villain. So to restate the above: ...

Food as a Right?

There is a debate afoot that indicates Healthcare as a right and does so by equating it to food. The argument is that food is a right as is health(care). Some of the arguments limit the word to simply Health and some extend it to healthcare. It seems to me that the logical disconnect is occurring at the level of the definition of the words. Let us start with the definition of food. Food is a Right? What is food exactly? I will explain food below, but let’s see what food as a right could mean: The statement food is a right, could be saying one of two things: 1. The living thing involved is going to use its own energy to capture, purchase, create, an object that can be consumed by the body for nourishment. This object, will require the individual living thing to use time, energy and other resources in its possession to do this. In other words, it will use its own Life (time energy), and Liberty (the ability to make decisions for the self) to add objects to its Estate. Combin...