Why should I vote Democratic?

[Kalidurga]

16. Don't take this the wrong way...

But, I am fine with you where you are. But, that being said I will address your thoughts and concerns.

1. Causation does not equal correlation. If a ban expires the same year that crime goes down it doesn't mean that is the cause. Also, you thing about self protection. Your gun is 47x more likely to be used on someone you know rather than a criminal, that is just a statistic it says nothing about you personally. Even with that statistic I don't know a single Democrat that is against gun ownership in principle and that includes me. However, some things need to be fixed. People shouldn't be able to stroll into a gun show and buy a gun on the spot. I don't see any reason people shouldn't have to have some kind of mental exam to own a gun either, especially when we have an epidemic of mass shootings.

2. Flat taxes are regressive. You aren't suggesting that poor people should pay more in taxes than rich people are you? It is also a fact that rich people benefit far more from tax dollars than poor people do. I will let you figure that one out if you can. I don't know what you are talking about when you say Democrats oppose the tax increases, unless you are saying on people that make less than 250,000 dollars. They should be doing this. It hurts the economy a lot more when middle class people are taxed than it does when rich people are taxed. Look at the Clinton era for verification.

3. I don't think you understand affirmative action. And it effects so few people that it's almost ludicrous. I believe we need to go much farther than some piece of feel good legislation anyway. We need to look at education equality starting from kindergarten on. It is ridiculous that in this day and age that many students are being taught in buildings that are falling apart. If you want to know what is going on here, I suggest you read some Johnathan Kozal.

4. Fine you can have free condoms.

5. You sound like an alarmist. Calm down. Go back to your hut and take a deep breath.

6. The United States is 37th in how healthy our population is. Do you really want it to get worse?

7. Yeah whatever. Holder was exonerated. And this was never a real issue, except to ditto heads and Beckheads and the criminal that insisted on very expensive investigations.

Have fun with your stay here. And I mean that.