Haha, yes, altough shooting down hoards of kids by your feet would be incredible fun.
That's it, I'm starting a new thread specifically on child beatings.
*Edit* Ok, started a new thread on it, so we can get back to the general bitching of kids here.
Now Havoc, I skimmed over your post, I'm short on time, but the term beating doesn't imply a smack on the back of the head (Altough if I middle aged strong man, as alot of fathers are, did that to a five year old boy or girl, I know that would realy hurt), no, it's implying that a child is repeatedly hit several times with force (at least, it's implied by the way we use the word), and the child is undoubedly hurt from this (which is exactly the point), and quite often, children carry scars from this (Nearly every adult I know from the beating era has some kind of purple bruise or scars where they were hit). In saying that, I ask you, do you think it's humane to hit a defenceless human being, for a crime that won't even get them fined by our police. And most kids that do get caught and punnished are the good behaving ones that made an honest mistake, whilst the naughty ones are experianced at getting away with it.
Now I'll leave the rest of my comments to the other thread, unless everyone would rather talk about it here.