[Cal]

It always amazes me when people assume that passign a law to ban guns would significantly reduce violence. We already have laws against killing each other. As you noted, we ignore these laws with amazing frequency. I imagine we would ignore the laws banning firearms just as readily. Even if we were somehow successful in removing handguns from every home in America, we would just force the criminals to use whatever weapons remained available. I would rather take my chances with a .38 pistol than a 12 guage shotgun. We seem to forget that we were slaughtering each other in great numbers before the invention of gun powder and firearms. Baning firearms would simply make the killing less efficient and messier.

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[Cal]

I can’t understand why you would want to have two checking accounts. Seems like more hassle to me. Why have two accounts when one will do? I can’t imagine why anyone else would care. Maybe people think that having two accounts is a sign of distrust or selfishness.

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[Cal]

We, the breeders, are pissed because you are getting off too easy. While we are staying up nights with a sick kid, you’re out partying. While we are dropping a couple grand on the kid’s braces, you are on vacation in Cancun. My kids will someday be paying for your social security but you never bothered to produce a replacement taxpayer for yourself.

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[Cal]

When you say everyone is called upon to help support those children, you don’t seem to take into account that everyone will also benefit from those children. The money you pay in taxes to support education is nothing compared to the money and time that parents spend raising children. Yet, childless people benefit from other people’s children every day. Think of all of the goods and services that you consume. Unless you are a hermit, they were supplied by other people’s children. If you ever collect social security, it will be paid for (mostly) by other peoples’ children. If a childless person wants to be free of the ‘burden’ of paying for education, that’s fine as long as they agree to pay a surcharge for all goods and services provide by other peoples’ children and agree never to accept social security benefits. What about resource consumption? Let’s assume that the average American consumes as much as 742 Ethiopians. So what? The average American worker is probably thousands of times more productive than some Ethiopian subsitance farmer. I don’t think everyone should go out and have six kids, but the occasional large family merely offsets all the people who chose not to have children. The only thing you said that made sense was promoting adoption. Maybe you should try it.

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