From state sponsored interventions to interpersonal violence, we humans have a proclivity for aggression. Foreign policy is often motivated by financial interests and sold to the public as
protecting our freedoms. Yet our post WWII involvement in other lands has contributed to instability and made enemies in those regions just as often as we have sustained peace and maintained allies.

For February 5, the broad topic is Human Aggression.  Before we can fix our foreign policy and curb the military industrial complex, we need to examine violence in our homeland. We can look at criminal justice reform, the prevalence of guns, and the militarization of local law enforce to name just a few. But our second priority issue starts with #GunDataNow.

We need uniform information and systems to record and access data. This can be anything from background checks to how we label crimes to tracking use of force incidences. When we attempt to address gun violence, we get bogged down around the Second Amendment. There’s enough agreement on Reg Flag Laws, background checks, and denying the mentally ill and those convicted of domestic violence and violent crimes from legally buying weapons. But there simply isn’t the technical infrastructure to screen and prevent access to guns and follow through on the laws we have now.

Sub-Topics to address Human Aggression

• Gun Data reform; collection with consistent terms
• Federal Level Database for Police background checks
• Shift Legal age to serve from 18 to 21
• Change the Draft to National Service
• Criminal Justice Reform