The Government does not exist to serve you. While individual employees are more than willing to help you, mostly the State exists to preserve its power.
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CBP Wants to Expand Facial Recognition Use
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) already uses facial recognition software. It uses facial recognition mainly on the U.S.-Mexico border and at some, about a dozen airports. The product screens visitors efficiently. CBP is taking bids for a $960 million contract. The increase in equipment significantly expands CBP use of the technology. The bid is out … Read more
David Hart inspired my letter to Senator Ayotte
Dear Senator Ayotte,
My letter is inspired by David B. Hart’s letter to you in Friday‘s (April 12, 2013) The Citizen of Laconia. Apparently thinking you were unaware, Hart told you that the Senate will soon consider “common sense limitations on gun violence“, which he apparently thinks would have avoided the Newtown massacre.
The Newtown killer violated dozens of laws, murder, theft, assault, breaking and entering, child endangerment, and many others. Apparently Hart believes that if there had been more laws, the Newtown killer would have thought, “Rats, now I’d be breaking 91 laws and it would be wrong to break more than 88 laws. I guess I’ll have to stay home.”
While that makes no sense to me, Hart is right that we need laws to protect us from one another. We should have laws against harming others, e.g., theft, kidnapping, rape, and murder. Why didn’t anyone think of this before?
Do Something that Actually Dissuades and Stops Killers
I am sympathetic with Ben Fordham’s call, in his 12/19 letter to the editor of The Citizen of Laconia (www.citizen.com), to “DO something“. We should do something that works. What we have been doing fails because it has been based on fantasy, not realism.
We have established “gun free zones” to protect children and others, but “gun free zones” only protect the killers and serve up unprotected victims.
Fordham apparently wonders why people want guns for protection since we have so much law enforcement, police, FBI, etc. If law enforcement is the answer, then why are there so many dead in Newtown? Newtown is evidence of the truth of the NRA claim, “when seconds count, the police are minutes away.”