Actually no gangs would not be bringing in guns from Mexico, the Mexican gangs are using guns smuggled in from the United States.

Gun levels have been rising in Australia. NSW watered down the Port Arthur gun laws in 2004, coincides well with the bump in assaults on that graph.

You should actually do a country comparison, not a country to continent, eastern europe (which generally has lax gun control laws) has a high murder rate, the rest of europe has a murder rate 1/3 of the US.

Why don't you compare the US to the EU.

It's funny Tunisia which has the lowest private gun ownership in the entire world just overthrew their government.

Also if they had not suspended the other guys who happened to have gotten caught he may have had a better quality competition and thus would have lost.

So actually you are paying more than $6 an hour to drive your 13 year old car (just in gas, if you do 50mph and your car gets 25 mpg and gas costs $4/gal thats 2 gallons/hour ergo $8/hour) and you assert that $8 an hour for zip car is expensive. You really ought to rethink that assertion.

Except you are lying or have a bad memory as an expired meter fine is currently $65 (actually $55 if you went to the Noe Valley Whole Foods). And you are an ass for parking that far off the curb. And Pay the fucking meter, they take credit cards and you can text to them.

So what you are telling me is you spend $6 an hour just on gas to drive your car (30 mph, 20 mpg, $4/gal), and you think $8 an hour is expensive?

You really think that is expensive? How much do you drive? How much do you pay a year on your car, include everything, gas, insurance, registration, parking tickets, maintenance. If you live in SF you realize that zip cars have parking, so you should include the hassle of finding parking. Lastly, you don't just have a car, you have the car you need for what you need it for. Do you need to go to the lumber yard, or buy a sofa, well then you have a truck or a van, do you want to pick up a pretty lady, well you can get a mini convertible. Unless you are driving more than 15k miles a year, it's really hard to beat $8 an hour of usage (including sitting in a parking lot) for owning a car. (and I do own a car)

Defer your college year, head to Australia for 6 months working odd jobs, hitchhiking, surfing, sleeping with various other foreign backpackers.

What FA are you speaking of? There isn't one here. Also in the summary, or the "Ask Slashdot" question, it points out that the child is currently, after being homeschooled, a below average reader. That nugget of information makes it sound like the homeschoolers are not competent teachers, which asks the question "Why are they homeschooling"?

Why are people who are asking this question in a brusk manner being moderated "troll"?

When Full House being filmed, Alamo square (upon which lie the painted ladies the fictional location) was nearly a war zone. Just 13 years ago the San Francisco Chronicle had a front page story about 6 murders in a year only a block away due to the drug trade. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/08/14/MN46914.DTL

Maybe he needs an income stream that is hidden from his wife. He wouldn't want to clue her in on how much he spends on hookers and blow.

You can be certain that every major intelligence service has multiple operatives working for Google. The ones from the NSA may be doing so less covertly.

Don't forget liability when the s$#! hits the fan and a lost child or evacuation announcement has to be made and the PA override fails. Rolling your own sounds penny wise pound foolish.