On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 04:34:30PM +1100, Kim Jones wrote: > > > > > > > On 20 Dec 2014, at 3:23 pm, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 20 December 2014 at 16:56, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Oops. "Taupo" > > > > Damn, for a moment I thought that Raymond Smullyan had moved here and > > started his own town (not difficult in NZ) > > > Yes the Tao is very silent in Taupo. > > Except when Ruapehu belches. I've climbed that thing and peered into the > crater lake from a snowy flank > > > > > Yes house prices are pretty good, I would say, on what may well be the > > Southern hemisphere's biggest supervolcano. > > > Of which we speak. Yes, Aotearoa is safe from guns but not from Nature. Oz > (here) has just failedthat test once again and does so on a daily basis and > don't forget Australia is "no guns". A perfect example of why prohibition > never works but merely hands supply to the black marketeers as B points out > so often. The problem is apparently that humans have never invented a safe > way of killing each other except perhaps in cartoons and other Freudian > wish-fulfilment media > > K >
Except that in the recent brouhaha, only two innocent lives were lost. Similar recent events in the US seem to see hundreds of lives lost. Yes - criminals and madmen will always get guns, but they're less likely to be the more dangerous automatic variety if most citizens are not armed. I still remember the first time I saw a police officer on this side of the country. Police in the East carry handguns - in the West they don't, or at least didn't when I lived there. It didn't make me feel safer! Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
