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1 " People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. "
― Thomas Sowell , Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays
2 " Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look? "
3 " What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects. "
4 " Gun control zealots compare the United States and England to show that murder rates are lower where restrictions on ownership of firearms are more severe. But you could just as easily compare Switzerland and Germany, the Swiss having lower murder rates than the Germans, even though gun ownership is three times higher in Switzerland. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, and Finland. "
5 " Far from being a national crisis of affordable housing, outrageous rents and astronomical home prices are largely confined to a relatively few places along the east and west coasts. Rent per square foot of apartment space in San Francisco is more than double what it is in Denver, Dallas, or Kansas City, and nearly three times as high as in Memphis. Home prices show even greater disparities. "
6 " Another dogma among gun control supporters is thathaving a gun in the home for self-defense is futile and is only likely to increase the chances of your getting hurt or killed. Your best bet is to offer no resistance to an intruder, according to this dogma.Actual research tells just the opposite story. People who have not resisted have gotten hurt twice as often as people who resisted with a firearm. Those who resisted without a firearm of course got hurt the most often. "
