"If guns were outlawed, only the outlaws would have them." - Dunno.

My view on the gun situation is... it's illegal to carry a gun nowadays, but does that stop people from shooting other people? There were laws banning ak-47 assault rifles, but were crimes committed using ak-47 assault rifles during the ban? yes. If people think one more gun law is going to make criminals or potential criminals stop and think "Hmm, I was gonna go kill this guy with the gun I just stole, but since that gun is stolen and illegal... maybe I'll just go stab him in the throat witht his knife that is legal"

Banning all guns would have the same effect. They'd ban every gun, and guess what... crimes using guns would still happen. Because criminals don't care about breaking one more law.

As for the welfare thing... If it was easily proven that it's being abused, wouldn't you think it would have been fixed by now? Think the government is going to just come right out and say "Ok, 35% of the people on welfare (not a real number) are abusing the system by illegitimate means. We won't do anything about it, we just thought we'd let you know so you'd have the numbers" Rich kids from Beverly Hills and Malibu may not know it goes on, but people who don't soar among the clouds know that people do use these goverment programs through illegitimate means.

I'll give a real example from my time in Florida. My friend Kenny, very much like South Park Kenny was very poor, he had two sisters, and a dad who made crap money. They couldn't get on any sort of goverment assistance plan. They needed it. Believe me they did.

Patrina in my 9th grade Bio class came to school with all kinds of new clothes, mom had a brand new car, her sisters had new stuff probably every month. In the course of a conversation one day I asked what her parents did. She said her mom worked as a manager of some grocery place. Her dad was not in the picture. Mommy was on welfare.

So why does Kenny's family get nothing while his dad has a shit job with shit pay, but Patrina's mom with a relatively decent job with probably decent pay get on welfare?

Just one example can't say a huge amount, I know. But I've driven through compton, watts, inglewood, etc. Which I understand has a lot of families living on welfare, so why oh why do I see 6 brand new lincoln navigators and escalades on a street in watts where out comes a fat woman with 6 kids trailing after her to pick up her welfare check? People don't abuse the system? Bring your fairy tale society livin' ass down here. I can hardly see you anymore.