These days, everyone is a bad parent because the government makes sure of it. "Spanking's not the answer, touch your kid and you will go to jail." It's ridiculous. I think there's a new study out there that even says spaking can cause problems with your sex life in the future! Now that's just to much. If spanking was/is so bad, then why is it now we are having the problems we are with kids and not back in the day when most of the people on this board were growing up? Shootings in schools, never happened, weapons in school, maybe your standard switch blade which was really big, group beatings, maybe if you were being jumped in a gang, but even then that was more my time then in the 50s, 60s or even 70s.

The government needs to butt out and people need to learn that the answer is indeed physical discipline, obviuosly to a point. You get whacked with a belt and get a bruise, on the leg or arm as you are trying to dodge it or something, then hey, that's your fault, if it's excessive and actually on the butt, it is very hard to bruise a butt, or all over the body, arm, etc then the government does indeed need to step in. People know what's excessive, the government doesn't, but they sure won't hesitate to put someone on death row for killing a cop or something like that. Maybe there should be another group that steps in and says that that isn't right, you should only let him go play in the yard behind a tall fence where he can't get out, he shouldn't be put on death row. Stupid.

Sorry, off of that soap box, on to another one. I actually have a Desert Eagle .50AE and a Baby Eagle 40 S&W. They aren't located at my home location because the government, once again, has stated that I'm not allowed to own a gun do to something in my past thanks to the Bradey Bill. It was a DV charge, never touched my wife, never used a gun to threaten her or any weapon for that matter, never even threatened her, but because it was classified as a DV charge, I'm now never suppose to touch a gun in my life. So much for second chances, more like your entire life will be based off of this one thing. Ought to be interesting trying to get another job also.

Anyway, I'm done for the day with the government and discipline.