tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850330.post5529979908242162599..comments2023-08-03T04:54:54.068-04:00Comments on Abacaxi Mamão: Death and TaxesAbacaxi Mamaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06604184268628243496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850330.post-80091733284471596072007-04-23T23:05:00.000-04:002007-04-23T23:05:00.000-04:00I was being a little bit, I don't know, unnecessar...I was being a little bit, I don't know, unnecessarily snarky or tongue-in-cheek or something with that comment. <BR/><BR/>Having said that, I think it's sort of claptrappy if not absolute claptrap because I feel like the people who say that probably wouldn't support the majority, or at least a large part, of where their tax money goes. Like, say, the $481.406 billion going to the Department of Defense. Or the $17.310 billion going to NASA. Or the $8.791 going to Customs and Border Protection. Or what have you. I think that when people say that they support where taxes are going, they're mostly talking about things like public services, which are a tiny percentage of the taxes we pay. But I could be wrong.Abacaxi Mamaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06604184268628243496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850330.post-64271017597873879602007-04-23T22:51:00.000-04:002007-04-23T22:51:00.000-04:00Much nicer than the usual claptrap that some peopl...<I>Much nicer than the usual claptrap that some people I know spew about being glad to pay their taxes because they support where the money goes.</I><BR/><BR/>Why do you think this is claptrap?BZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18242965196421853025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850330.post-60215114690573509822007-04-20T00:08:00.000-04:002007-04-20T00:08:00.000-04:00It would seem that stricter gun control would just...It would seem that stricter gun control would just increase the ratio of criminals with guns to citizens with guns. After all, it's only criminals that will participate in the criminal activity required to acquire a gun under stricter gun laws. I don't think people go on violent rampages because they were conveniently able to get their hands on guns. They feel a need to do it, and will use whatever means necessary to get the weapons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850330.post-42537365213827575462007-04-19T00:00:00.000-04:002007-04-19T00:00:00.000-04:00The horror at VT certainly didn't convince me that...The horror at VT certainly didn't convince me that gun control prevents violence.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://donklephant.com/2007/04/17/previous-university-shooting-in-virginia-stopped-by-armed-citizens/" REL="nofollow">Donklephant</A> has a discussion of a prior school shooting, where citizens grabbed their own firearms and stopped the shooter before he could kill more people.<BR/><BR/>No, if anything, the absence of an armed citizenry is one of the things which enables rampages of this nature.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16491386537225283381noreply@blogger.com