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  • Here, they are less afraid because almost no household is armed. It is a dangerous situation to enter a home, but they always come in pairs and might do so with guns drawn.

    But we are talking about very extreme cases. German police shot 14 people in 2017, 11 in 2018, and 15 in 2019. So about the same amount of people that die from lightning strikes. The vast majority of policemen do not discharge their gun in their whole line of duty.

    If you compare likelihood of violent crime the bigger danger comes from people inside your house, rather than burglary. Therefore, weapons in houses would make life more dangerous here, since you are less likely to escape your step mother armed with a gun, than your step mother armed with a kitchen knife.













  • I am against the burning of books disguised as freedom of speech.

    1. It is bad for the environment. Too much co2 production in the process. If you must destroy books, recycle them!

    2. The Nazis did this very popularly. I always get reminded of that, when people burn books.

    3. I feel it is a very marginal impact into freedom of speech. I can not remember a single occasion where I had to burn a book to be able to articulate my thoughts.

    4. I think most countries ban burning houses, even if it is infringing the freedom of speech. Why should it be different with books?



  • Is it even true? USA has the same concept, and a lot of decisions are on a state level. China also has a lot of different local policies, even though in a totalitarian structure. Some cities have their own government, because they are so big. Germany has 16 states, which also do their own laws.

    I don’t think it would be like France, where everything is mandated from Paris.