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KILLING IN AMERICA-part 1

Details: Published: Sunday, November 12, 2017 12:07; by John Campbell; Hits: 1015

Guns do not kill people, people do. There is no reason for anyone to own or possess a military type firearm. A teaspoon does not make you fat. We need to register all firearms and their owners. The 2nd Amendment gives me the right to own any kind of gun I want. Handguns should be banned. We have heard all of the previous statements after any killing that was caused by a firearm. Both the left and the right rush to defend their positions on gun control or lack of it. No one seems to care about finding the real reason why these horrible things occur. I want to explore some of the possible reasons or causes of this violent behavior other than gun control.

The Puerto Rico financial mess was predicted in 1993

Details: Published: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:06; by John Campbell; Hits: 1789

Puerto Rico is in a financial mess as predicted in 1993, when the Clinton Administration removed the “936” IRS tax breaks for American companies operating on the island. This break, which included operating income-tax free, was approved in 1966 and had lured about 300 companies to build or buy manufacturing facilities. Many of these companies were pharmaceutical and light electronics because the expense of shipping heavier goods was costly.

Health Care

Details: Published: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:03; by John Campbell; Hits: 1541

After reading the letters to the editor about health care, I’m convinced that many want to help pay for my health care. This may be facetious, but most of us do need help with the health care bills the cost of which has risen from the ten-dollar office call and twenty-dollar hospital room to hundreds for the office call and thousands for the hospital. With all of the action and reaction in Congress to this matter, there seems to be no effort to lower costs but to just try to find the best plan to subsidize our cost.

Global Climate Change

Details: Published: Friday, October 20, 2017 10:51; by John Campbell; Hits: 1386

I have heard that the issue of climate change being caused by man is a “settled science” or is not debatable because thousands of papers have been submitted telling us that many scientists believe that it is true. My Philosophy 1a class told me that begging the question or using the bandwagon approach to an argument was not valid. Man-caused climate change has become a political opinion that is believed in like a religion rather than a scientific examination and discovery. Science is not a belief system but a series of testing, questioning and retesting to arrive at speculation, which may become theory. Climate change and its causes relating to man will never become more than theory because its ultimate test would be to remove humans for a thousand years and follow the changes in climate. It is as stupid as it sounds, but so is the absolute belief in a theory that is based on computer models rather than scientific examination. Our local weather is given to us based on the same computer models, and usually the USA model differs from the European model.

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