the1jeffy

@Napalm510

Sorry, but the pawn shop laws existed long before video games, and they exist to protect comsumers from fences, the purveying of stolen goods. This prevents a stolen 360, memory card, or other personal belongings from being resold in less time than it takes law enforcement to reclaim stolen goods. Your insurance should cover non-at-fault law enforcement seizures, and if it doesn't you are really at fault.

A way for you to get around the law is to offer your customers a premium trade in if they provide a valid sales receipt for the product. If you have record of the original bill-of-sale, pawn shop laws do not apply. That way if they have a receipt, they get a better 'deal' and you can immediately turn around your product after whatever quality assurance you provide. If they ahve no receipt, simply offer you 'basic' return and wait 30-days like every other re-seller.

I cannot understand people who get into a business without understanding the laws that have governed it for years. Used dealers have dealt this way since before video games existed.

@ Capt. Obvious

"Now, let's change the assumptions, and assume that you know that both my neighbor and I own guns. You KNOW this, because everyone owns guns. Are you really just as likely to proceed with the robbery as before? Can you just acknowledge that, yah, maybe there might be some deterrent effect? That's all I'm asking. It might be conceivable that more guns will result in less crime, that's all I want to get across."

Actually, if I was a criminal, I'd be more likely to shoot you first if I thought you were armed. So, a just as 'rational' interpretation of the 'Armed Society is a Polite Society' mantra you are portraying, is if you assume others are armed, you shoot them first.

The only way arming society at large is safe or effective for crime deterrence is to ensure that everyone that is armed is trained in shoot/no shoot scenarios, marksmanship, firearm maintenance, and situational thinking. So, some form of gun control is necessary. Otherwise you have a bunch of armed idiots.

Unfortunately, training the masses is not something the government wants. It's easier to scapegoat the evil guns, and pass semi-Constitutional gun-control laws.

Of course you will get canned, Dennis! Because eventually, you will run out of laws. I'd say, oh, about 52, considering the ability of politicians to learn from the past. Unless some states are stubborn and try twice. But either way that will keep you writing for a while.

CTMV-W26K-R5KN-SIBK is my favorite cheat code, but it really isn't a cheat per se, it the continuation of a Castlevania II game, with all Drac's parts and all weapons.

I would love this as a T-Shirt, or a wall hanging.

And FYI, the phrase, "Worth his salt," is a refernce to when Roman soldiers were paid in salt.