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	[quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"][quote name="Mysterio"]Lots of blacks and poor whites kill each other with guns in America, mainly over controlling drug rents.[/quote] Some see it as a way to easy money. When some drug dealer offers a kid $200 a day to hold his stash so that he's never carrying, it's a powerful incentive. Of course, the kid could get a legitimate job - if he can find one with limited skills - for, oh, say, $7.25 an hour before taxes. This ignores the fact that the mimimum wage makes unskilled labor too expensive for some fields, because what they're capable of doing isn't even worth that. So they're locked out of the low-wage training jobs that could allow them to learn valuable skills and thus improve their status and not get into criminal behavior. [quote name="Mysterio"]It's not clear that this is a problem. The onshore economy can't really accommodate these folks anyways.[/quote] You really think so? There's lots of jobs that need doing, they just can't be done economically on the kind of costs imposed by government regulations and laws designed to protect those who already are in business from new competitors. [quote name="Mysterio"]The problem of drug killings will end if drugs are legalized, and be replaced by the public health crisis created when cocaine and heroin are priced realistically.[/quote]You really think a lot more people will use drugs just because they're legal? You really think there are that many people willing to use a needle drug like heroin? I think someone here already pointed out the social costs went down in one country that did that and the costs for treatment were a trivial fraction of the former expense. [quote name="Mysterio"]Tea is a good homologue: a lightly processed plant product that goes for $15 a lb. [/quote]There's a big difference between someone deciding to use a serious mind-altering chemical with serious side effects and a beverage product whose two main serious ingredients are a small amount of caffeine and tannic acid, which happens to be good for you. [quote name="Mysterio"]Lots of men of all classes kill their spouses with guns in America. These crimes will wane as marriage rates drop. [/quote] It's not much different as far as domestic violence rates between a woman with a husband or a woman with a live-in boyfriend. That piece of paper is neither going to make a guy who is not violent start beating his wife, nor is the lack of that paper going to cause a guy who already is the violent type to refrain from beating up his girlfriend. [quote name="Mysterio"]A tiny handful of heartless losers in the middle class occasionally snap and kill dozens of people randomly; this is like a 1/100 million occurrence. These killings will end when a computer-driven surveillance apparatus can look into our phones, computers, homes, etc and put all the pieces together. At that point, you may or may not decide that mass killings were an ok tradeoff for privacy. [/quote] I suggest you stop watching films like <i>Minority Report</i> or taking them as too serious. California for one had to tell people to stop smiling when getting drivers' licenses because doing so messes up the facial recognition software. If the stuff is defeatable by smiling it ain't that much and there's a long way to go. [/quote]