Charles Bronson vs. Bruce Willis (who would win?)
The original is one of the classic revenge thrillers that has that satisfying edge of the bad guys getting what’s coming to them. Also shows the incompetence of government to “solve” the problem and how individuals accepting the responsibility for their own safety is a much more effective solution.
The remake has a similar air to it, but tones down the social commentary by our hero and focuses more on the cat and mouse with the ridiculous final villain.
In both, however, the government has a monopoly on police services and has no incentive to actually solve the problem. Their biggest concern is “how it looks”, so they bury statistics that are unfavorable to their perception. Another funny thing was how hard they were hunting the “vigilante” and they had literally dozens of people in the room all working the case – such a huge waste of resources.
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Death Wish (1974)
Once a mild-mannered liberal, New York City architect Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) snaps when intruders break into his home, murdering his wife (Hope Lange) and violently raping his daughter. A business trip to Tucson, Ariz., lands him a gift from a client, a revolver he uses to patrol the streets when he returns home. Frustrated that the police cannot find the intruders, he become a vigilante, gunning down any criminal that crosses his path. The public finds this vigilantism heroic.
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Death Wish (2018)
Dr. Paul Kersey is a surgeon who often sees the consequences of the city’s violence in the emergency room. When home intruders brutally attack his wife and young daughter, Kersey becomes obsessed with delivering vigilante justice to the perpetrators. As the anonymous slayings grab the media’s attention, the public begins to wonder if the deadly avenger is a guardian angel — or the Grim Reaper itself.
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During the show we mentioned a ton of stuff, here is most of it (the rest is just a google search away!):
Here is a taste of how to visualize the number of laws and regulations in the United States:
Ed Stringham does a bunch of work on the realm of private policing and security services, here is one of his books:
Bob Murphy – Chaos Theory – how a non-state system could function without coercion and still provide justice and security services:
Liberty Weekly – Warren v. DC
Police Have No Duty to Protect You: The Truth About Warren v. District of Columbia Ep. 46
Bonus Mises McMacken article:
https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again
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Rothbard police article
Police crime stats
“52% of all violent victimizations, or an annual average of 3,382,200 violent victimizations, were not reported to the police.”
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/vnrp0610.pdf#page=5
More guns, less crime:
private gun ownership
1993 – 185 million
2016 – 347 million ( 1 ) + 87%
murders with guns
1993 – 18,253 ( 2 )
2016 – 11,004 ( 3 ) – 39%
Violent Crimes
1993 – 7,900,000 ( 4 )
2016 – 1,248,185 ( 5 ) – 84%
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/01/30/5-facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/
Apparently I was wrong about the abortion/crime argument being in a Gladwell book but it was actually the book Freakanomics that made such an argument.
https://www.theecjournal.com/single-post/2016/1/16/Abortion-Historys-Greatest-Crime-Fighting-Tool
Despite my wrongness, here is a Malcolm Gladwell book:
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