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We all know that the United States has a high homicide rate for a developed country. It also has a great deal of mass shootings. What, if anything, can be done to bring the homicide rate down?

How exactly would immigration know who is a Muslim? It is not on the passports. Also you can't go by country. You can have Christians, Buddhists and atheists from a "Muslim country" as well. On a questionnaire someone could easily lie. They could wear Western clothing. So how would one...

So I stumbled on to this article entitled: "Drug Warriors Say 'Bring Back The War On Drugs,' Because It Totally Worked" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/drug-war-william-bennett-john-walters_55f1ae50e4b03784e27840fb It basically talks about an op-ed published in the Boston Globe written by...

Good thing he was a recognizable celebrity or this could have gone much worse for Blake and the cop that did not identify himself when he decided to tackle. http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/10/us/tennis-james-blake-tackled-by-nypd/index.html The first thing that should have happened was for the...

I know many on these forums support the death penalty for murder. Also many consider abortion to be murder. For those that believe both...do you support the execution of a woman that had an abortion performed? How about execution for the physician and any other medical staff that were involved?

I saw this article today. I thought it was good that they were released and that they received some compensation. Wrongfully Convicted Brothers Win $17,000,000 Settlement From NYC - The Root I was thinking: 1) I am glad they were not executed. 2) It is sad it took the legal system so many...

I read an interesting Associated Press interview with ousted Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych. A few quotes: AP News : AP Interview: Yanukovych admits mistakes on Crimea "Crimea is a tragedy, a major tragedy," Viktor Yanukovych told The Associated Press in his first interview since fleeing...

What do you feel...if any will be the long term ramifications of the following cases: Zimmerman Michael Dunn (Teenagers shot for playing loud rap music) Curtis Reeves (Shot man texting in movie theater) In all of the above cases the people shot were unarmed.

I guess it is becoming more difficult for States in the U.S. of A. to find drugs for lethal injection. BBC News - Lethal injection: Secretive US states resort to untested drugs Also this little tidbit caught my eye. That comes to $307,692,307.69 USD per execution. That enough to buy 13...

This is very interesting article I came across today. It was how a German court banned circumcision. The ruling only applies to a region of Germany...so far. BBC Circumcision Ban

I came across an interesting article on BBC's website. It made me wonder about extended singleness and asexuality. The article claims that about 1% of the U.K. identify themselves as asexual. I wonder if the real percentage is actually much higher. Nowadays a person does not have to have a...

I saw two articles in the Wall Street Journal which were very interesting. I was thinking about the recent post written about the 14 year old Samaritan that was falsely accused. I also was thinking about how the perception about men will impact men as far as wanting fatherhood. Here are the...