When looking for answers, make sure to ask the right questions on gun-violence.

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12. When examining our Constitution, the most striking thing is its "negative" couching...

of rights (Congress shall make no law...), and its reference to rights as individual and not communal. Also very notable is the notion that rights are pre-existing and only identified by the government, which is charged with protecting them.

I don't think this tradition runs much afoul of community interests in that the government IS charged with promoting the general welfare, which is a powerful tool which both Roosevelts and LBJ used.

Why crime rates have dropped is a vexing question. I just don't see the availability and numbers of guns as a significant factor (that seems manifest). The way both the economy and social services have deterioated, I would have expected crimes and homicides to go up, at least over the last 10 yrs. But those rates have fallen.

"Something is happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear."