A chicom time-bomb, seems. Was it 'Banker' a while back posted their research findings which showed the chicoms have similarly 'stalled' projects in other countries as well, as if to cause economc difficulties?

Patiently allowing time for all to come to an accurate understanding of the Bible and His purposes, while waiting to drop the hammer on the whole luciferian mess.

Perhaps the chicoms might inflict total gun control and confiscation, along with wiretaps on every phone and IT connection, as they do in Mao's wonderful chicom mainland socialist paradise?

Total subjugation, spying on everyone, beating practioners of Falun Gong religion senseless, seems to keep the Chinese people down.

You raise a crucial point, that guns are only but one factor in a society's crime rate, and a minor one at that. There are many complex elements which come into play.

As liberal albeit pro-firearms ownership professor of law, Don Kates, said in his seminal book 'Restricting Handguns' in 1979, 'when one tries to use compare nation's experiences with crime, laws, and firearms to those of another, one wades into a thicket of no return', words to that effect.

Please make no mistake, the purpose of my posts is neither to recommend nor condemn firearms but rather to state facts which the press will never utter, because the facts go against their statist, false 'narrative'.

Many Japanese tourists visit Hawaii, and quite a great many of them enjoy visiting gun ranges while there. They enjoy them because Japanese citizens are forbidden from owning any firearms, period.

Yet Japan leads the world in suicides, albeit in a 'gun free' society.

One can falsely attribute Japan's low crime rate to its gun ban but for the fact that crime rates amongst Americans of Japanese origin are yet lower than those of Japanese citizens, proving that Japan is an orderly society.

Moreso, those who immigrate to America from Japan are yet more law abiding and orderly as a group, even though they enjoy firearms rights which no one in Japan can even dream of.

Thank you for reading and kindly replying. A pleasure as ever. All the best to you this eve.

It's no 'snapshot solution', but rather one which history has proven time and again.

The snapshot solution touted by statists and hoplophobes is to ban all guns, which ensures that criminals will forever possess all the weapons they need to prey on defenseless innocents.

Gun control, so called, doesn't work and not one of its proponents can point to any locale where it's been inflicted and show success.

The 'adjacent state theory' is oft cited by gun-control advocates whereby they blame crime in one gun-free venue on 'guns coming in from states with lax gun laws'. It's an old bromide, long debunked.

Gun control clearly is not working in the Bahamas, and yet the laws have remained relatively constant for decades, so the problem is clearly not a lack of gun laws.

New York City thirty to forty years ago boasted a very high homicide rate, almost three thousand per year. Today, it boasts one of the lowest, though the gun laws have not changed and New York, despite its draconian gun laws, is nearby to gun rights states such as Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

What caused the crime rate to drop? Forty years ago, while in college, professors quoted legitimate studies which demonstrated that if police would stop releasing habitual criminals, and instead lock them up, crime would plummet. That was the early 70s.

During the late 80s, Mayor Giuliani did just that, directing police to arrest people who committed seemingly harmless offenses such as spray painting buildings and breaking windows. What they found was that these same people often were guilty of much more serious crimes for which they hadn't been caught. Getting them off the street caused the rate of serious crime to plunge to low levels, where it's remained.

In 1987, Florida passed the concealed carry law to the horror of the leftist media and gun-control advocates, all of whom predicted, 'every minor car accident will become a bloodbath as crazed drivers slaughter one another with guns.'

The opposite occurred: crime began to drop immediately following the law's passage, and thirty other states joined Florida in recognizing gun rights.

Crime today remains low, despite the manipulative reportage of the marxstream media.

Think about it, we're a nation with five hundred million guns, estimated. Were guns so dangerous, so evil, were they so powerful that they caused even the most mild mannered of persons to become a psychotic killer, then with that many guns in circulation, shouldn't all of us have long ago dropped like big, fat, juicy flies?

But we didn't because guns are not the problem, criminals are and it's a surprising small number of criminals who make all the trouble for the rest of us.

Gun control causes crime by shifting the balance of power to the criminal, who becomes free to prey on defenseless citizens. It is that simple.

Thank you for reading and taking time to reply to my post. A pleasure as ever to read yours.

Kudos to Mr. Gibson for stating the truth.

Research dating back two hundred fifty years demonstrates that nations which permit their citizens to defend themselves enjoy low rates of crime, whereas nations which deny their citizens the right to defend themselves suffer high rates of crime.

There's been a great deal of leftist propaganda over the past century to the contrary, much of it promulgated by statists who covet a monopoly on force, but that doesn't change historical fact.

Research in the near term corroborates what was known two centuries ago: if you want more crime, by all means deny law abiding citizens the right to defend themselves, as criminals will always have all the weapons they desire.

If you want less crime, recognize citizens' right to defend themselves, and crime will drop, as it has in 'concealed carry' states in the US, which by the bye is one among fifty nations which recognize citizens' rights to self-defense.

Near term history as well tells us that the mere suggestion that citizens be permitted to go about armed gives criminals pause, a deterrent in itself.

Even when few citizens avail themselves of their right to carry, research has shown that when states pass concealed carry laws, crime begins to drop ahead of firearms purchases by citizens, as criminals recognize their next predatory act may be their last.

As to firearms 'causing' suicides and more homicides, again those determined to harm themselves and others are never stopped by laws, they will always find a way to achieve their goal.

Newton's Law demands it. Agree.

Any Bahamian citizen may freely visit any Bahamian resort, hotel or restaurant.

They're free to visit and then return home or go about their other business.

But Cubans may not freely visit Cuban resorts, hotels or restaurants.

Only those Cubans assigned by the communist party to work at resorts may set foot on them, and only to perform their assigned tasks. Then, they're instructed to return home.

Any Cuban who is not assigned to work at a hotel, restaurant or resort and who visits them nonetheless can count on being arrested by castro's goonsquads, and thrown into prison.

That's how it works in the Bahamas as opposed to how it works in Cuba.

So with that sunny little reality in mind, why would any of us want to visit Cuba?

Many of us do and likely will, but not until after the last of Cuba's ruling thugs are gone.

Until then, we're perfectly delighted to visit the Bahamas.

Oh sure, everything's all booked up. Sure.

Are the chicoms tightening the noose? Couple this with the cheery news that Frank DelRio took it upon himself to drop the Bahamas in favor of Habana, the city of eternal shambles and police crackdowns, and one wonders if this isn't the Marxists up to their old pincers strategy again.