It's easier for crazies to get weapons then is is for a 12 year old to get cigarettes and booze.

@redredred So if it's one of your kids that gets slaughtered, I guess it's only a number, right?

@independentone If you want to address every single death each day individually, go ahead. If you want to consider policy, it might be best to look at trends, a.k.a. statistics.

@redredred Those parents will be so relieved to know their child is now just another statistic.

@independentone At least half of America doesn’t defend medical deaths as virtuous.

@independentone I know you think you sound loving and concerned but we are all statistics if one has a need to see things in aggregate. If you think there’s a way to set policy by looking at things as inefficiently as possible you have a future within the Biden administration.

@redredred If we look at everything by the numbers, then the red states take more in federal tax money than they pay in. Shouldn't the red states be cut off from any federal help until they start being productive and not freeloading off the blue states?

@independentone Try out for the Olympics if you can make a logical leap like that. What was the topic? Guns? Cigarettes? Booze?

Fine with me if you want to cut off all federal aid. Let each state keep its own money, repeal the income tax law and let California and Alabama make their own way.

Before 1913, this country didn’t gave an income tax but we did have roads, railways, harbors, docks, schools, universities, hospitals, libraries and museums. I’m with you, let each state make their own way.