I don't know how you ever got through school. Didn't you have to engage in intellectual discussion at some point in your life?
I find that Baldgye is a very superficial thinker.
There are deep reasons for why things are the way they are, simply because they ARE the way they are.
The CIA and NSA are simply our government's espionage departments.
If the middle east stabilizes, They will have a dramatic influence over Energy prices..
It's ultimately THEIR oil.. If they want to say, **** you get out, there's little the USA can do about it.
In order to make sure the USA has control over the Energy, we need the middle east to remain destabilized, therefore, we can buy some here, sell some guns there, and they will continue to give us OIL at a price we can control...
The added benefit of nations divided, is our excuse to spend on the military..
The money in numbers is fundamentally meaningless since it's all printed..
As for gun safety.. also doesn't matter, guns don't kill that many people next to heart-disease, diabetes, and obesity.