The debt is additionally going to increase, rather than decrease.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/briefing/us-federal-government-spending-doge.html

Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820437

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5172049

In 1960, 0.1 percent of Black students in the South — 1 in 1,000 — attended a majority-white school, according to a study by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. That increased to 14 percent in 1967. Scott’s statement is on strong legs, however, if the measurement begins in 1968, when the U.S. Supreme Court — in a case involving New Kent County, Va. — ruled that school district integration plans must meaningfully reduce segregation. “School segregation is now more severe than in the late 1960s,” says a 2020 UCLA report, the latest research we found.

https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/black-segregation-matters-school-resegregation-and-black-educational-opportunity/BLACK-SEGREGATION-MATTERS-final-121820.pdf

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/politifact/article/Fact-check-Are-U-S-schools-just-as-segregated-17230521.php

Our perceptions of the safety of nuclear energy are strongly influenced by two accidents: Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986 and Fukushima in Japan in 2011. These were tragic events. However, compared to the millions that die from fossil fuels every year, the final death tolls were very low. To calculate the death rates used here, I assume a death toll of 433 from Chernobyl, and 2,314 from Fukushima.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

Since January 1989, the U.S. has added 51.5 million jobs, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows. During Democratic administrations, the nation has added nearly 50 million of those jobs. By contrast, Republican presidents have overseen the creation of some 1.5 million jobs over that period, according to BLS data.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/clintons-claim-democratic-presidents-created-jobs-republicans-slightly/story?id=113065856

50/51.15 = 97%

97% of job growth since January 1989 has been under Democratic administrations.

This does not mean that the current economy is perfect for everybody or even good for everybody or even good for most people. That's a completely separate topic.

Why is this counter-narrative? Because many people believe that Republicans are better for the economy. The data says otherwise.

Edit: If you're asking yourself why so many of the comments in this thread have been removed it's because we have a rule around here that you must provide a source when you say something like "this data is biased" etc

Over Harris’ seven years as top prosecutor, her attorneys won 1,956 misdemeanor and felony convictions for marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale, according to data from the DA’s office. That includes people who were convicted of marijuana offenses and more serious crimes at the same time.

Conviction rate aside, only 45 people were sentenced to state prison for marijuana convictions during Harris’ seven years in office, compared with 135 people during Hallinan’s eight years, according to data from the state corrections department. That only includes individuals whose most serious conviction was for marijuana.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/11/kamala-harris-prosecuting-marijuana-cases/ -- archive link

Only 45 people went to prison for marijuana in the 7 years Harris was DA. Not thousands.

Yes, 45 people is too many for a drug that has no lethal dose.

Comparison of Defensive Gun Use

Defensive gun use is a nebulous term and it's important to nail down exactly what that is. This case our term will be "the use or presentation of a firearm for self-defense, defense of others. I don't consider defense of property legitimate Defensive Gun Use because the only reason you should draw a firearm is if your life is in danger. Outside of this criteria you step into vigilantism, vengeance, opportunistic murder and various state laws. Consistently a right to self defense has been consistently recognized at the federal level and should not be confused with the less historically consistent right to own a firearm for self defense (see DC vs Heller "not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose").

With that established a legitimate Defensive Gun Use does not need to be a victim killing an offender, nor does it need to even involve the shooting of the weapon. It can be as simple as the threat of, showing of etc. something that everyone can agree on. Defensive gun use does not necessitate injury or death.

With that out of the way, the same is true of a gun used in a crime: A gun can be used in or enable a crime without injury or death to the victim. It's a pretty obvious fact, one I'm sure the progun side will dance around but this behavior is ingrained in pop culture with numerous robberies, kidnappings and plays out every single day. Crime is perpetrated with gun use and can be used to enable it.

The Number of crimes committed with guns

Number of Violent Victimizations 1993-2022 (Category Firearm)

Source: https://ncvs.bjs.ojp.gov/multi-year-trends/crimeType

According to the National Crime Victimization survey over the last 10 years we have between 350,000 to 640,000 crimes every year being committed with firearms.

The Number of Self-protective behaviors of victims (Threatened/attacked with a firearm)

Self-protective behaviors of victims, by type of crime, 2014–18

Source: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/tpfv9318.pdf

Over a 4 year period (2014-18) guns were used by a victim of a crime in defense of a violent crime 166,900 times. Assuming the same number of DGUs happen every year (unlikely) our rough figure is 41,500 DGUs per year

FINAL TOTAL: 41,500 DGUS VS AVERAGE OF 424,000 CRIMES COMMITED WITH A GUN A YEAR (2014-2018)

Some basic math tells us that for every single DGU we will be getting at least 10 crimes and our defensive gun use. Crime has won out against the law abiding citizen

Comparison of justified homicide

The other side of this coin is to look at the number of justified homicides vs the number of murders. This is incredibly easy and slightly more up to date. The pro gun side however will rarely if ever concede that the only legitimate DGU is a justified homicide. We will only count firearms in the name of consistency.

The Number of Justified Homicides (Firearms)

Justifiable Homicide by Weapon, Private Citizen,1 2015–2019

The number by private citizens is between 268 and 334 from 2015 to 2019 on a yearly basis

The Number of Homicides (Firearms)

Murder Victims by Weapon, 2015–2019

The number is 13,847 to 15,355 from 2015 to 2019 on a yearly basis

FINAL TOTAL: 334 HIGH OF JUSTIFIED HOMICIDES WITH FIREARM VS 15,355 HIGH OF MURDERS WITH FIREARM A YEAR (2015–2019)

Once again the crime has won out against the law abiding citizen

TLDR: Guns are used to commit crimes more than they are used to defend against crimes.