@9 I see your point but honestly church bells are not really an offensive sound. You might even be anti-religious and appreciate that church bells are part of a long history of the look and feel of a town or city.
The first thing I thought about while reading this is music. When I was a kid in Port Townsend, I played in a band. A bunch of the adults in the community got together to try to ram through a noise ordinance to get us (and the other bands in town) to shut up. Thankfully, the ordinance was defeated and we kept rocking. But when I think "allow kids to be noisy" I think "allow kids to be expressive", which, I think, is a really good thing.
I suppose it bears pointing out that, whenever the neighbors of a serial killer are interviewed by the media, their first - and almost universal response is: "but, he was such a QUIET man".
The only thing that keeping kids quiet all the time will lead to Charles is a generation of repressed, psychotic, murderous adults.
But hey, at least they'll kill you very quietly...
Considering how loud and obnoxious all Americans (adults and children) are, I definitely agree. Children should be able to express themselves, but not to the point of shrieking and yelling at top volume indoors. What's really charming is when those little bundles of joy explicitly call for their parents' attention, and the parents completely ignore them. I guess they've just trained themselves to tune out their own children rather than take responsibility for teaching their kids proper behavior.
Noise laws are dumb. I'll be as loud as I god damn please, especially on Sunday.
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…
Just use a silencer on a pistol....
The only thing that keeping kids quiet all the time will lead to Charles is a generation of repressed, psychotic, murderous adults.
But hey, at least they'll kill you very quietly...
@19,
I'm pretty sure Charles is a parent.