congrats SF you have the highest rent prices in the world

[aminalmutha]

On the flip side, even the mayors are on crack, so at least they have that going for 'em. arty

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

So basically, the rent is too Damn-Hi , because of house-hoarding owners who own too many and make it worse for everyone. That's the line of Thaught:

Here is this article that's just come up: *family* homeownership has decreased in the SFBayA dramatically... WHILE renting families--have increased.

THAT makes the rent high--because people can't afford the house; BUT want to stay, even with a family; THUS whoever made the houses unaffordable; IS responsible for the rent being too high.

Therefore, increased buyership, including overseas, including with multi-million SFBay owners , including increase of world wealth , overseas again, is increasing the rent of everyone.

 

[aminalmutha]

There is only one solution:

 

[Eldritch]

It's the only way to be sure.

 

[MysterYvil]

Are you talking about Mulford? Mulford didn't restrict possession in any way, it only restricted displays of weaponry that implied a threat of force. It did not limit the weapons the citizenry could possess or inhibit the militia in any way. I call it the, "Shit or get off the pot," act. Either fight a revolution or do not. Impotent threats of violence are meaningless and do not help society. Acts of armed revolt are ALWAYS going to be against the law, this is how government must work. The 2nd exists to provide citizens with the opportunity to act against government if laws become tyrannical. All revolutionaries are criminals until they win. You can make a, "Slippery Slope," argument, but it is a soft one. The implied oppression of minorities that was presented by Mulford does stand as case in point to my warnings against Gun Control as a mechanism of the oppressive state though.

For DC, as the seat of Federal Government with no State Level resources, it uses the Military for a great many behaviors that would be a violation of Posse Comitatus in other States. Even then, the jurisdictional allocation of resources are pretty strict.

:dunno

"Soft" slippery slope? Look what has happened; Reagan greased the rails for it.

There are few big steps taken until after the smaller incremental ones have been taken.