I am out of the loop because I live in Canada. But I keep seeing all these posts on social media regarding abortion and birth control laws in the United states. Are they banning one or both of those or cutting funding for it? And more importantly why would they do this?Can someone fill me in?
Examples of 2 articles I've seen; and I've seen multiple tweets about abortion in the United states lately
https://www-latimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-abortion-bans-states-roe-wade-supreme-court-20190511-story.html?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&outputType=amp&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fnation%2Fla-na-abortion-bans-states-roe-wade-supreme-court-20190511-story.html%3FoutputType%3Damp%23referrer%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%26amp_tf%3DFrom%2520%25251%2524s
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-47066307
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Peter Welch [D-VT0]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
After the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, the debate on gun control policy has once again resurfaced in the public purview.
In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine has pushed for the passage of a so-called "Red Flag" law. These are "state laws that authorize courts to issue a special type of protection order, allowing the police to temporarily confiscate firearms from people who are deemed by a judge to be a danger to themselves or to others." An example of a state with a current Red Flag law is Oregon:
>Oregon’s Red Flag law requires a fairly simple process. The first step is for a concerned family member, household member, or law enforcement officer to ask the court for an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO), which will remove a weapon, or a concealed handgun license, from an individual who is at risk for suicide or is a danger to others. An Order also prevents the person from buying additional guns for a one year period. The law is nicknamed “Red Flag Law” for when a person exhibits a ‘red flag’ or other indicator that they may be a harm to themselves, or others. It is one of the few tools that family and household members have to quickly remove a weapon from somebody who is at risk.
Other states include Florida and Maryland. However, there has been some issues raised regarding these laws.
How do these laws interact with the Constitutional right to bear arms and to avail of due process?
(This topic was orignially submitted by u/Young_Dweezy.)
Sorry if this question is stupid or has been asked, but I've been wondering what specifically happened in the United States (or the world in a larger scope) to cause the United States to fall behind towards the latter end of the 20th century, and other countries to catch up or surpass the United States? I've had a pretty hard time finding specific rankings of education by country, but in a documentary I watched it said the United States had the best public school education in anywhere in the world in the first half of the 20th century; and by the end of the 20th century it seemed like it was in crisis; as it was underfunded, overcrowded, and many kids were not passing the state requirements of school.
Is the answer as simple as other countries simply improved, or is there something to pinpoint the decline in the United States in terms of GDP per capita and education? The United States still has a relatively high GDP per capita that's been steady, but the growth compared to other countries has been pretty slow during this time period and many European countries have surpassed the United States in terms of educational requirements. For example, the United States was higher than Switzerland and Norway from the 1960s, but then it seemed Switzerland and Norway had both gotten ahead, and by 1995 both were higher than the United States in terms of GDP per capita.
When you give up your right to have weapons.
You open yourself up for all kinds of abuse and tyranny.
I believe the cost of violent gun crimes is worth it to keep our country defended.
Even from itself.
An ideal situation would be gun education and a change in the violent tendencies of our citizens, but until that day comes.
People should be able to level the playing field.
