Q-and-A

 1.  Odds of Joe Biden running again?

Well...November mid-terms will be a message over his brand, and he can't readily (in January 2023) change the brand/message.  By the time that the Hunter hearings start up and President Biden has to issue a pardon to get Hunter 'free'.....the position for the 2024 run will be ended (expect this message around July 2023).  

I would also suggest that VP Harris will state the same thing around four weeks later, in that she also will not be running. From that point on....this administration has marginal function or contribution. 

2.  In the past year or two....the quote 'detached-from-reality' has been used too much?

Actually....you could probably utter it for one-third of society now.

3.  President Biden having popularity ONLY in 2 states?

Yeah, Vermont and Hawaii....only two states where the numbers say good (over 50-percent).  

In Ala, approval among 18-to-34....is marginally at 20-percent....with 64-percent disapproving.  

4.  If you build a red-flag system that says 2-percent of American society is unsafe, and mentally unbalanced...is this a guns-only discussion?

Well....no, if you say 500,000 people are unsafe or present some threat to society....these are people with severe red flags, and probably cannot be trusted in public, or allowed to vote, or allowed to fly on planes, or allowed 'credit'.  In simple terms, we'd need a massive discussion which a large portion of people aren't willing engage upon.

5.  What was the deal for Ohio and allowing teachers to be armed?

Well...originally, they passed a law requiring 728 hours of training.....to be given permission to carry a gun into a school.

Now, you can sit there and think about this.  Air Force boot-camp had a simple 8-hour training session, and at the end of the first four hours.....you did a series of fire-and-reload exercises, then fire off forty-odd rounds.  At that point, they gave you a card which said you were 'certified'.

Marines will argue that they had three or four days, but note that it was mostly run-drop, and fire exercises (something Air Force people aren't capable of doing).

How you would mix in 728 hours?  It adds up to 91 days of some type of training.  No one from Ohio can really defend this logic.  Maybe they were using muskets and reloads took 90 seconds for each round (my Marine associates might argue on this).

Anyway, they had another discussion in Ohio, and voted to change the 728 hours down to 24 hours (probably still three times the amount that military guys require).  But the logic here.....the military guy isn't looking for options in his situation....he's just loading and trying to ensure the target doesn't get up.