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Predicting Gun Control's Future

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Hi! Happy Wednesday! So, gun control is finally making some headway in corporations, states and the possibly even the Federal government today. Just as a reminder, Irreni World Scale is not about punditry but solutions. The solution in this case is to educate by putting the gun control debate into the larger picture of the state of the world. The U.N. and affiliated world organizations put out world studies annually to help all countries better prepare for tomorrow. In this piece I'm going to take those studies and their predictions of social change for the future and fit the gun control debate into those predictions; most specifically people migrating. Climate Change Means Mass World Migration   Climate change is happening in a significant way and disrupting the world order. This has nothing to do with either the debate about human contributions to climate change or the politics to manage climate change. Given the current rate of climate change the U.N. is predic

Cherry Picking

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Happy Monday! 03/05/2018 I recently watched a video on YouTube entitled, "James Damore at Portland State (02/17/2018)", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrQ3EU8_PM&t=3628s , and ever since I've been mulling over how I want to respond. I want to respond. So this is it. Just to briefly summarize, Damore was a Google Engineer who wrote a ten-page memo denouncing affirmative action for women at Google. It is obvious from reading the memo he worked backwards from an agenda with the science he cited. His memo falls into the category of, 'there are lies, damn lies, and statistics' science writing. His agenda is to simply say that a woman's place in science is fait de complete, there is nothing left to do as we've hit a biological equilibrium. Therefore, in Damore's mind, there is no need for any affirmative action and let the chips fall where they may. I've already written one blog post about Damore, but I wanted to write another blog p