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Educate .... Don't Placate (Submitted Anonymously)

8/31/2018

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Educate, don’t placate
School has started, and science based, educated, and common sense thought has gone out the window.

What I’m referring to is Governor Raimondo’s press conference calling to ban all guns from public schools, including those held by people with concealed-carry permits (Providence Journal, Raimondo announces ban on carrying guns on school grounds).  Unfortunately, the research shows you are in more danger from a police officer than a permit-holder.

In order for a Rhode Island resident to obtain a concealed-carry permit, they “must show a good reason to fear injury to themselves or property, or have any other proper reason for carrying a handgun,” and the permit must also be approved by their local law enforcement official (RI General Law 11-47-11).  Permit holders are well vetted people with good reason to have a gun for their protection.    

People like Senator Michael Damiani (D-District 18, East Providence), former Deputy Majority Leader in the Rhode Island Senate who retired in 2006 with honors from the chamber.  He was known to carry his gun on the floor of the senate with regularity. 

But Governor Raimondo, with her actions, is suggesting that these people are a danger to our students. 
Accompanying her at the announcement was Education Commissioner Ken Wagner who said, “That lack of clarity of whether or not someone with a gun in a school is a good, law-abiding person with a permit or someone with evil intent is exactly what we need to fix.”

Concealed-carry permit holders are much more law abiding than the average citizen, and even the police officers who are tasked to protect us, according to Police Quarterly, a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of criminology, in particular theoretical contributions, essays, and empirical studies on issues related to policing (Exit Strategy: An Exploration of Late-Stage Police Crime), and cited by the National Review last year.

The research shows that police officers commit an average of 703 crimes annually, of which 113 were firearm violations.  With 683,386 full-time law-enforcement employees nationwide during the time of the survey, there were about 102 crimes committed per 100,000 officers.  These are still very law-abiding people, as you would expect. As comparison, within the total U.S. Population, the crime rate is 3,813 per 100,000 people. 

However, the same data shows that concealed-carry permit holders commit 10.8 crimes per 100,000 people. 

​More the point, the 113 firearm violations committed by police equate to 6.9 per 100,000.  Concealed-carry permit holders rate is 0.31 per 100,000.  You are 22 times more likely to be a victim of a police officer than a permit-holder, so who are we afraid of?

Raimondo seems to acknowledge there is no logical reason for her actions and it is simply based on emotions by saying, “I’ve talked to many teachers who are scared,”continuing, “They say to me, we don’t know if our colleagues might have a gun. We don’t know if a parent, coming to a parent – teacher conference may have a gun.”

In other words, “many teachers” are so afraid of guns that the governor is compelled to restrict our rights.  And since permit-holders were approved to carry guns due to their life or property being in peril, she is also willing to compromise their safety to placate those fears. 
Unfortunately, those same people who are “triggered” by guns (pun intended), run the risk of being triggered outside of schools.  Will Raimondo protect them there too?  Where will it stop?

The reality is, if someone wants to commit violence at a school with a gun, they aren’t going to care what laws or policies are in place.  If we restrict the freedoms of law abiding citizens to have guns, then only the criminals will have them.  I know its cliché, but it’s true.
I suggest we govern based on research and fact, not on emotions and fears, or worse yet, political efforts to look Progressive just before a primary.  

Now that school has started, lets educate students and teachers on how to make research based decisions, and, more importantly, we should teach them what happens to a country when the government starts taking away personal liberties based on fears. 

This article was submitted to the Coalition Rhody Style ... Anonymously ... It's well written, provocative, and timely ... questions? coalitionradioshow@gmail.com

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ADVOCACY GROUPS OPPOSE NEW VETERANS’ HOME REGULATIONS S PROPOSING BAN ON USE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA BY RESIDENTS

8/29/2018

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Citing concerns about the impact on veterans participating in Rhode Island’s medical marijuana program, three advocacy organizations have submitted testimony expressing strong opposition to a Department of Human Services proposal that would ban the use of “narcotics prohibited by federal law” at the Veterans’ Home in Bristol.  The organizations are the ACLU of RI, the RI Patient Advocacy Coalition and Protect Families First. The group testimony notes that, as currently worded, DHS’ proposal would prevent resident veterans from using medical marijuana that state law explicitly allows them to use for their medical condition.
 
Since 2006, Rhode Island has authorized the use of medical marijuana for a variety of medical conditions. Even more pertinent, two years ago the General Assembly approved important legislation specifically allowing individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to use medical marijuana to ease their symptoms. Passage of that amendment was prompted in large part by the plight of veterans suffering from PTSD.
 
The group’s written testimony to DHS cites recent news coverage highlighting the use of medical marijuana for the relief of PTSD and for alleviating what some are calling a suicide epidemic among veterans. The testimony argues that DHS’ proposal “would actually amount to a step backward in addressing this literal life-or-death issue for our state’s veterans.” The organizations have requested that the provision be eliminated and that the regulations be clarified so as not to negatively impact veterans who participate in and benefit from the State’s medical marijuana program. 
 
Since the testimony was submitted earlier this month, the New England Veterans Alliance, a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of veterans for improved access to medical cannabis therapies, has also expressed its opposition to the regulation.
 
Full text of the testimony can be found here:
http://riaclu.org/images/uploads/180829_testimony_DHSVetHomeRegs.pdf
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Steven Brown (ACLU): (401) 831-7171
JoAnne Leppanen (RIPAC): (617) 470-8183
Annajane Yolken (Protect Families First): (401) 541-5933

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RIDOT TAKING STEPS TO ALLEVIATE TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON I-195: IS IT ENOUGH?

8/26/2018

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From The Desk of Peter Alvitti

RIDOT TAKING STEPS TO ALLEVIATE TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON I-195


The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today announced a series of steps it will take to alleviate traffic congestion on I-195 at the Washington Bridge westbound in advance of local school openings.

 
Contractors are working through this weekend to reinstitute a fourth travel lane on I-195 West across the Washington Bridge. This will allow traffic that is coming from the Taunton Avenue on-ramp (Route 44) to have its own lane and not have to merge with traffic already on I-195 West.
 
The work started Saturday, August 25 and will continue until 6:00 a.m. on Monday to accommodate the Monday morning commute. RIDOT will monitor the reduction in congestion expected from reopening the Taunton Avenue on-ramp and will look at the possibility of opening a fifth lane on Tuesday along with other possible adjustments.  
 
RIDOT will also remove the barrier on I-195 West between the Broadway ramp and the Parkway Bridge tonight to allow for an additional travel lane and further alleviate congestion. RIDOT had already posted additional personnel on Taunton Avenue to help move cars safely to the left-hand lanes for left-hand turns.
 
During this work, RIDOT will continue to monitor traffic volume in order to make other adjustments as needed.
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Eric Palmieri: The Quaker Libertarian Interview & Essay

8/14/2018

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The Miracle of the Marketplace - Eric Palmieri

Imagine for a moment, a place where people of every age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, culture, and socio-economic class could come together peacefully, without strife, without division, and without anger and violence.  

No, this place is not some hypothetical paradise or the subject of a John Lennon song: it’s your local shopping mall, grocery store, or restaurant.  On a larger scale, its the local theater, sports venue, or concert hall.  Perhaps its a food truck festival, farmer’s market, or electronics convention.

Everyday we enter these spaces and interact with people who could not be more different than us…and somehow there is peace.  In a world that seems to be so divided in so many different ways, how is it that we can all come together day in and day out in relative peace and harmony?

It’s quite simple really; a free and open marketplace creates spaces where people can engage with one another in relationships that are mutually beneficial and peaceful.  This truth is evident on scales both large and small.

Since the end of the Cold War, free trade has continued to blossom around the world, and as a result we have seen not only a dramatic decline in global poverty, but a decline in global conflict that by historical standards is almost inconceivable. 

War, of course, has not been eradicated from the human experience, as it is still a part of life in many parts of the world.  However, compared to all the periods that preceded it, the past 30 years have been the most peaceful in the history of the world as we know it, and the role free and open global trade in preventing war cannot be ignored.

In a purely free market, either both parties get what they want or nobody gets what they want.  The system encourages and rewards peaceful cooperation.  The system punishes bad service, fraud, negligence, theft, and violence as nobody wants to engage in commerce with someone who engages in these behaviors.

All of this peaceful collaboration happens in a seemingly seamless fashion.  Just think about all of the people, goods, services, companies, materials, and interactions that take place simply for you to drive home from the grocery store with a bag of oranges from Florida:

Hundreds of people had to grow, pick, wash, package, and ship the oranges.  But it doesn’t end there.  What about the people who manufactured the tools being used by the orange grove workers?  What about the people who built the trucks that deliver the oranges?  What about the people who built the tires on those trucks?  What about the people harvested the raw materials needed to make the rubber those tires are made from?

There are literally MILLIONS, maybe even BILLIONS of interactions that take place every day between people with infinite differences amongst them so that a bag of oranges can make in onto your kitchen counter…

…and all of it happens through voluntary collaboration without any economic or political overlords pulling the strings.  

It truly is a miracle, one that happens every single day, and one that should be appreciated, embraced, and protected against those who would seek to corrupt and control it from the halls of power. edit.

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