(Maybe they’re just a bunch of Slackers?? Get it, Slackers…Oxycontin, double entendre?)
In layman’s parlance, it’s called a police state. And while we fell back in the mid-90s, when Sen J. Biden’s proposed ‘three strikes’ was passed by the tough on crime Dems, we must be getting back up. (down from 750 to 500, per 100K)
This assumes getting back up means, having an incarceration rate four times greater than communist China as opposed to six times greater a decade ago. (125/100K)
At least we allow women to be more included, at 10%. U…S…A, U…S…A, U…S…A, we’re number one, we’re number one. Of course things will soon change, and it will be YOU, ESE!
PS One in seven recorded homicides are at the hands of a state agent “doing his/her job”. Yet they don’t advocate for that type of ‘common sense gun control’.
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated”
― Thomas Paine, The Crisis