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To: NorCoGOP
Two points here:

1. The University rioting is entirely preventable. Simply expel every student invovled and it will not happen again. Universities don't do this because they believe, of course, that mobs are the result not of a bunch of criminals, but of some underlying agnst that must be the universities fault. Also, they would probably wind up having to expel a disproportionate (to the student body as a whole) number of blacks, which they won't do.

2. I agree that the drinking age should be lowered. From my personal experience (and this is anecdotal evidence) strong enforcement of anti-drinking laws leads to high cocaine, heroin, and acid use.

My friends and I started drinking early on in high school. Our parents generally allowed it if we were safe at home and nobody drove, etc. Our friends at boarding school, however, couldn't drink at all. They would get expelled. So instead, they were all doing drugs all the time because drugs are much easier to conceal.

My town, which was very tolerant of drinking in the late 80's and early 90's while I was in high school now has zero tolerance of teen drinking. The result is rampant hard-core drug use. I say let the kids drink responsibly.
8 posted on 11/29/2002 10:13:38 AM PST by Rodney King
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To: Rodney King
The University rioting is entirely preventable.

Shooting rioters is also an effective response. The police could start by shooting something less than deadly like paint balls with blue tandy leather dye. Makes it easy to id them the next day.

From there, you could go to a mix of blue dye and frozen blue dye

To a mix of blue dye and CS powder

Oh to heck with it - just start with blue dye, essence of skunk and CS powder. The tell them over the bull horn that the rubber bullets will come next.

I witnessed the German Police use paint balls loaded with something that caused much iching - to great effect.

21 posted on 11/29/2002 10:51:36 AM PST by taxcontrol
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To: Rodney King
I say let the kids drink responsibly.

Sure, worked for responsible sex...uh nevermind

46 posted on 11/29/2002 12:43:09 PM PST by itsahoot
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To: Rodney King
I've heard that of the 50 people arrested only 10 were students...i think that alot of the time when this happens its non-students such as gang types (and ann coulter protesters lol) that do alot of this damage.
73 posted on 11/29/2002 4:37:49 PM PST by anncoulteriscool
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