--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 8/11/2003 1:14:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > That would only hold true if the criminals were aware of who did and who
> did
> > not own guns ahead of time.
> > I think the gist of the argument is that legal gun ownership deters crime
> in
> > general and there are stats that support this.
> >
> > But nothing is ever going to grind crime to a halt.
> >
> > I think this type of discussion tends to get people thinking about the
> > extremes as opposed to the general tenor of the realities of life.
> >
> > There are many many millions of guns in the US, yet only a few thousand
> or
> > so deaths in a given year. A small percentage of deaths by
> > any cause.
> > Its a mountain made out of a molehill.
>
> Except the mountain is usually not fatal and the molehill is fatal.
> Detering crime is good but the cost may overwhelm the benefit if even a
> statistically small number of innocent individuals (in particular the owner
> or a family member is killed). After all the death rate in the mole hill is
> %100. If we had effective gun control then the death rate would go down for
> both the criminals and the victims.
You don't know that. You have not shown sufficient corolation to the stats to
say that with any certinty.
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