Regarding #1 - I was arguing with a liberal coworker years ago about how concealed carry reduces personal crimes (robbery, rape, etc), and could show him the FBI data to prove it. He kept saying he didn't believe it, and I finally said we're not discussing your religion. He still didn't understand - at least, I think that's what the deer in the headlights look meant....
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, unless it's just the typical liberal response to anything they don't agree with.
It's just a meme I found, so I'm sure it's fake. But if anyone has the skills top make one, I bet they'd sell.
I've argued the same thing to brain dead liberals. I don't understand why people think putting someone into debtor's prison (another way of looking at having to work years to make up for the losses) is perfectly acceptable.
I was referring to why Trump didn't dismantle Obummer Care. It would have required support from Congress, which he wasn't going to get, and people need to understand what the true cost of socialized medicine really is. We essentially have it now, but it's run by the insurance companies, big pharma, and the large providers. The only difference would be who controls all the purse strings, and who gets to launder money out of the system.
If people feel basic health care is a right, then that is a separate discussion, but for it to work, you have to safe guard the system so it only provides basic health care and nothing more. As soon as you set it up, someone is going to come along and demand that the system pays for all the special treatment their loved one requires, even if it means 1000s of others go without. And some lawyer will be more than willing to take on the challenge of ruining the system.
I don't doubt it. A while back PBS aired a documentary on the building of the Alaskan pipeline. One of the women interviewed had a job on the crew - I don't recall now what she did, it was a lot of work for good pay. In any case she mentioned making money on the side doing "favors" that paid better than her full time gig. I bet she wasn't the only one doing that. Why would the Navy be any different? If you think about it, the DS has been in the business of ruining lives and marriages for a very long time, and what better way than to create a situation ripe for temptation.
A good question. Back ~35 years ago when Florida enacted their shall issue CC laws, the Dems required the FBI to collect stats as part of the legislation. They figured that all those guns in the hands of citizens would lead to a wild west situation, and they could revisit the law in a couple years and use the FBI stats to prove that they needed to stop the killing. It backfired spectacularly. A reporter interviewed several convicted felons after a couple of tourists were robbed, and they admitted they didn't fear the police, tourists were easy victims, but random citizens were likely to be armed and deadly.