I wish you could get the job you are trained for.

However, you are a great example to those who "sit on it", believing they are entitled.

Things will turn around for ya'!!

Kinda' burns my butt when I hear someone say they are too good for a job. If they wait too long, they'll find themselves livin' with mommy or out on the streets.

The law needs more laws to pay for all these expensive law cars; The drivers for them and All the upkeep and gas it takes to keep them running or it will end up like the movie Mad Max. I mean just think if you didn't have a lawyer to explain to you the laws on the books you would be totally in the dark. We need a steady supply of more contradicting laws so we can keep court cases more prolonged and eat up more of the paying tax payer's meager income. After all its only money.

Back to the topic..here is a phucked up situation thanks to a law that you thought would protect you:

No gun areas at public places. The Columbine massacre and the Virginia Tech Massacre could have easily avoided if some of the students (and trust me on this, there are National Guard troops who go to colleges too, with experience with many rifles and pistols) would had a concealed weapon.

Take the bastard down..but instead we had a lunatic comfortably going from one building to the next and killing people by the dozens, because not even the campus police was carrying a 9mm, and campus police as useful as a voodoo doll anyway.

So just one armed kid with military experience..take the psycopath out with a nicely aimed shot to between the eyes would have put an end to the whole thing within minutes. Not to mention, do that at Columbine school and the Virginia Tech maniac would not even consider, by just knowing that some of those students sitting in the classroom might just be armed and "might just" take him down just because being trained for that sort of a situation.

I disagree. The more lunies you have with guns the more problems you have.

It has never been shown to be true that a gun toting person saves the day and there are gun toting folks all over the place.

Gun toters are just as likely to be the problem as not. Plus carrying a weapon around, it can be taken from you and then you gave the gun to a lunie to kill folks.

Guns are just not the way.

And I do believe a sane person with a good psyche should have the right to have a gun. But we have to be more selective to who we consider "eligible" to carry a weapon. For real!!

Did they finally find your still? Is that what this is about?

Fung Fu Hillbilly Judie Chops.

or, Rambo type weapons,

I believe I'll go with the weapons!

Guns ARE the way. If the government outlaws guns, then only outlaws will have them. Ever been shot? I have and it's not real fun! If I didn't have a gun myself, I'd be dead. It's amazingly easy for for people to spout of "armchair" opinions of what they think is right without ever really being in the position to realistically know what they're talking about. Be attacked at gunpoint unarmed and tell me if you feel the same way...

dead is dead is dead,, I see no reason for semi assault weapons in civilians hands,, go back to the lock and load types and a thorough review of the criminal background of the applicant as well as a personality disorder test,,,, and Im all for it,,,

Whoa there nelly, did I say outlaw guns?

I think they should have a criminal check and psyche eval every year to own a gun. And for concealed weapons they need to pass eye exams and shooting range exams.

Here we go again!

BTW, an armed society is a polite society...

Not really.

Consumption is highly correlated with the amount of taxes paid and collected by local, state, and federal governments.

But do we consume American made products?
Ever wonder why? No, it's not taxation that is the prohibitive factor.

Most of industry that remains solvent in the United States are service oriented and entertainment. Trucking is a service, bars are entertainment, something needs to be taxed, we certainly aren't producing a whole heck of a lot.

In fact, much of what we sell to other countries, returns to us in the form of consumer goods and even with all the taxes the OP is complaing about, those consumer goods end up costing us up to 75% less than if it was manufactured in the U.S. And remember, Industries did not leave the U.S. on the basis of high taxation.

We can all pay less in taxes by consuming less. Then, we might not complain about how much a beer costs or the price of going to the movies.

And since we have to tax something, and most of our industry is related to serices and entertainment, we would be supporting those industries and they could afford to pay those taxes...