> > -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 9:58 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: eurohostages >> >> >> Kevin said: >> >> > American has less terrorism and liberal >> > gun laws. Europe has more terrorism and strict gun laws. Looks good >> > to me. >> >> I really would hate to mention that the US has something like >> five times >> the murder rate that the UK does, to speculate that this might be a >> natural consequence of the ready availability of firearms in the US, >> and to observe that the number of deaths caused by terrorists >> is rather >> small in both countries compared to the total number of >> violent deaths. >> >> Rich >> VFP Light Blue Touch Paper And Retire >> > >You should hate to mention it. You are suggesting that there is a direct >correlation with the number of guns to murder rates. Prior to gun control >laws in England, the murder rate was lower then. Let me add that the US has >a higher non-gun murder rate that most EU countries total murder rates.
Exactly what I was saying! No matter how many of our weapons you take away, we Merkans will still kill each other at *exactly* *the* *same* *high* *rate*! Guns, knives, poison fingernails, refuse, poison spit, whatever! Brad DeLong
