From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Most Dangerous States Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:46:30 -0500
At 10:30 AM 8/11/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
--- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 02:11 am, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > --- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In fact the whole of Europe has much lower homicide > >> rates than the USA, > >> and much stricter gun control. > >> > >> -- > >> William T Goodall > > > > _But_, just to complicate things a bit (I'm an > > agnostic in this particular debate) it has higher > > levels of violent crime overall (a fairly recent > > phenomenon), and a far more homogenous population, > > with massive underreporting of crimes committed > > against minorities (i.e. Arabs in France). > > It's a fact that Europe has lower homicide rates than the USA. If we > accept that it actually is a more violent place overall then this is > excellent evidence that gun control works to reduce homicide is it not? > > And I would rather be mugged or get some broken ribs or whatever than > be shot dead.
Persony I would rather have the lowlifes shooting eachother more and me not
be the vitm of violent crime where the perp uses knives and clubs.
And personally I would prefer they sober up and get a job rather than holding me up or robbing my house or place of business to buy drugs. Who has a suggestion for bringing about that state of affairs?
Death by Firing Squad for first-time offenders?
Jon Just Kidding Maru
Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com
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