on 11/6/01 11:30 PM, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ronn Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 4:23 PM
> Subject: RE: Science has a new Martyr
>
>
>> At 09:55 AM 6/11/01, John wrote:
>>>> From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>>
>>>> JDG - Who sincerely hopes that this old chestnut of an argument that
>>>> started this whole thing can finally be permanently put to rest.
>>>
>>> I don't buy this. If the guy had had a gun, he would have probably
> killed
>>> more than 8 kids. If he had automatic weapons, he would have killed a
> whole
>>> lot more than 8 kids. And he probably wouldn't have been stopped by a
>>> teacher and a principal.
>>
>>
>> Now, had the teacher or principal or both been armed . . .
>>
> There would have been a firefight. It is quite possible that the teacher or
> the principal would have accidently hit a kid, adding to the the death toll.
> Why do you think, while other crime rates (such as robbery or murder) are
> less than foreign countries that the US murder rate is still many times the
> rate found in most of the world?
The most recent figure I heard (last week) was that the US homicide rate is
six times the UK rate.
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William T Goodall
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