Published on Mar 23, 2015
Topics
-- President Obama
-- Economist Magazine
-- President Obama
-- Economist Magazine
“[The department would implement] successful, field-tested programs, and developing new approaches for dealing with the tools of violence, including handguns, especially among youth.”Translation: We’re taking your guns using frivolous, poorly implemented research as a justification. It’s just another waste of government money to take power over the populace.


[W]hereas catastrophic situations like flooding often fosters solidarity, a lack of resources tends to do the opposite, leading to chaos and even violence. In Itu, a city 100km from São Paulo a desperate water shortage in late 2014 led to fighting in queues, theft of water, and the looting of emergency water trucks, which are now accompanied by armed civil guards. These events left many paulistanos wondering how the hardship might play out in their own pressurised and densely populated city.Think it couldn’t happen here? That’s what the people of Sao Paulo thought, too, and I’m not sure that you can say our government is less corrupt than their government. Better to be prepared.