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On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:13:10 -0400, Wayne.B
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 19:46:00 -0400, wrote:
You can make a far worse case against swimming pools.
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That's an interesting point. We must lose at least a dozen or more
kids to swimming pools every year just in Lee County alone.
Considering how many of those pools are simply a decoration (very
seldom ever used) it may be a very similar analogy.
A comment in a fiction novel I read. Very appropriate.
Just like despite hundreds of billions of dollars being spent, 'The War on
Drugs' has produced a net gain of zero. There are more drugs on the street
now than before and more people using them. All the police managed to do
with all their enforcement efforts is to drive the price of the product up
to the point where mothers are selling their kids to get high. Oh, yeah,
and a bunch of poor black kids are willing to kill a bunch of other poor
black kids for the money associated with selling the ****. But that's OK
because the cops really don't care about poor black kids anyway. So long as
they keep the rich white folks safe and sound, they're happy as hell."