No better feeling than knowing that Connecticut's high quality of life is subsidized by the military industrial complex and insurance companies

Seriously? Guns are the last straw for freedom? A tool that serves no other purpose than to kill? Yikes....what a shitty country to live in if this is what we have to resort to

I'm not looking for zero crime. That's living in real utopia. But I am looking to lower the rate of homicides and violent crime which I think is an achievable goal.

By enacting a buyback program and putting guns out of circulation, I don't expect results in the following year. Gun culture is so heavily ingrained in US culture and society, it'll take a generation or two to see results. But it's better than the trajectory we're on.

The US also suffers from fundamental issues so you have people resorting to crimes, sometimes violent, which is less seen in other developed countries including our neighbors above us. Nobody will have the need to resort to crime if their basic necessities are taken care of. But American taxpayers funding a better quality of life for fellow Americans? That's not patriotism, just crony socialism.

I'm trying to find a story in Iraq and Afghanistan where they shot down a hellfire missile with small arms.

How will you fight the US Navy parked a good 200 miles off the coast and launching a tomahawk to blow up a neighborhood full of "rebellions" during this hypothetical Civil War?

ATVs equipped with ATGM, that is. It's not some .308 rounds taking these tanks down. Plus, it's mostly Javelins and NLAW destroying the T-90 from what I understand. Both of which are provided by foreign countries to Ukraine. And neither of which is in mass circulation to the general public of the United States.

I don't love the government but I also don't hold massive disdain for it either where I feel the need to be heavily armed to feel safe. What a shit country to live in if that's the case. Sounds something straight from a war torn country than a developed country.

They're better than nothing but deaths from shooting still occur in states with high level of gun control. The problem is that you can purchase guns in more lenient states, drive across the state borders, and commit your shootings. State laws won't stop that unless they add customs or something at the state borders

I'll get down voted to oblivion by the gun nuts, but, after living in the US and abroad, I can say that the only way to prevent random mass shootings in what should be safe places such as schools, colleges, and movie theaters is a repeal of the 2nd amendment and a buyback probation of existing guns going over a generation or two. Right now, the laws are so divided between the states, it just goes to show how some issues being solved at the state level is stupid. But of course, Americans would revolt on such an idea to prevent deaths of their fellow Americans as long as their gun owning liberties aren't infringed. So much for the liberty of life of others.

If this is a mental health crisis, why don't mass shooting (when adjusted per capita) happen routinely in Japan or the UK? Did they solve their mental health issues? Is their medical system just that much superior to ours? Or are we just a shit country that can't solve mental health? Makes you wonder...it's not like these countries have zero crime there, either.

Having guns to defend against tyranny is another popular but dumb take. If America goes into a Civil War, there's no way a neighborhood of armed civilians is putting an Abrams tank out of commission or shooting down a hellfire missile from a drone. Whoever has vast control of the military and their armament, wins...and that's probably the government which is (partially) funded by the same gun owning civilians via taxes. Absolutely hilarious that they arm their own government with superior technology while holding disdain for it.

Horsham felt like the most quintessential American town, ever. I liked what I saw.

Similar feelings towards Alpharetta. It has that new development in the South feeling.

But I do prefer New England over both

Interesting...when I travel to developed countries outside of the US and Canada, I never paid $35 for burgers and $15 for fries. The US must be real shit if customers have to subsidize the wages of workers.

This is good news and I hope it's passed into state law. Subminimim wage makes sense when the restaurant guarantees you minimum wage, which is the current law, but I always wondered how many restaurants follow up on this, especially with the increase in minimum wage. It's tough to enforce and crackdown on noncompliance.

Also, I hate tipping culture and wish it wasn't a thing in the US but that won't be changing any time soon.

I meant from existing stroad-like roads. Instead of creating additional lanes, you use those lanes for other modes of transport. I don't expect full fledged bike lanes on someone's neighborhood residential street where you have small lots

...per dozen? Is there state tax on groceries in Texas?

The real solution is off-road and proper divided pathways for cyclists and pedestrians. But obviously, that solution is too expensive for one of the wealthiest states in a wealthy country. Go figure.

A bicycle against a however many thousand pound vehicle will lose, always.

I hope Connecticut does this. I'm sick of FPTP voting. It's not as democratic as it should be

My thoughts exactly

Leaves change colour in NY, too, though. So, not sure what's different.