Why did you leave Chicago Bart?

[ZEUS]

I think you altogether missed my point within the analogy - colors being the same is merely a coincidence.

Just because the media labeled the states red and blue does not give any comparison to gangs. Terrirtorial pissings is the comparison I am making. One side "controls" the territory. One versus the other - the battlefield is there for the taking. My analogy is suiting in this regard. Hey I own a pair of broen shoes does that make me a member of Hitlers brown shoes? Dur. Govts whether the DEm or Republican agree that society needs system of rules and punishment that everyone should follow they disagree on what the rules should be. So do gangs! That's why that poor kid is dead! Gangs are made up of idiots who are not smart enough to get ahead when they are made to follow the same rules everyone else is and they ignore those rules. Politics are also made up of idiots who are not smart enough to work within the confines of the "rules" (as in moral conscience), hence corruption, greed, mis-use of power... which seem to override the one true acceptable reason to be in a governing seat - duty. Gangs want to feel they are respected and in power or control so they use their own methods to get what they want. In this regard my analogy is suiting. Having rules but no enforcement or punishment or not having the punishment meted out equally makes the rules ineffectual. No punishment much like gun laws ensures only those who are civilized will follow the rules. Afterall do you really think the Virginia sniper who shot something like 13 people would never have done it if owning the gun was against the law? I can see him now "Geez I would love to murder people (which is against the law) but I can not buy a gun legally so I guess I will not be able to do it. My turn to say I disagree with your analogy... or maybe it's that I, like you, don't correctly understand the correlation you are trying to make...?

DRAT! Sorry... getting pulled away. I would like to finish what I was saying but I gotta go. I hope what I DID say makes sense tho now...