My family prefers hunted meat to supermarket meat largely because of the chemical additives. Bovine growth hormones are some of the worst. The link below goes to a story about 2 reporters who were fired when they were investigating the stuff. They were supposed to write a positive story on it, but they didn't, and they were fired. This was a precedent-setting case in the U.S. and explains in part why so many members of the media knowingly lie now when they "report." They have to report what they know to be lies or risk being fired. Fascinating story, if you're not familiar with it:

http://www.foxbghsuit.com/bgh2.htm

Aknahten...race card, race card, race card. The media already tried to play the race card by harping on Cho being Korean. Americans didn't buy it. That game's played out. And the U.S. Civil War was unnecessary. The U.S. was the only major country to ever fight a war to end slavery. England ended the practice a few years before using financial methods, and the same was being discussed in the U.S., but then the European bankers and arms merchants entered the picture. The English monarchy is a blight on humanity. They're so bad they forced the sanest minds of the day to draft the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. If it hadn't been for the right to bear arms, Americans wouldn't have been able to defend the country in the War of 1812. I'm sure you DO hate the thought of Americans owning guns.

And as far as home invasions being petty offenses (in Storllin' Johnny's first point #4 above), that perspective is hard to accept. Maybe Brits don't mind having old people beaten in their homes, but in the U.S. people are killed for home invasions. Assault numbers are about equal for the U.S. and the U.K., but I suspect if homeowners in Britain had true weapons, the deaths from home invasions would be substantial. I feel sad for the old people of Britain who are not allowed to defend themselves.

I'll move over to one of the gun threads with this stuff. My input here should be on the drugs that lead to these shootings and the calculated response by disingenuous politicians.