On Saturday, December 20, 2014, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
To my knowledge there's never been hundreds killed in one incident. I think the most was at Virginia Tech where 31 were killed if I remember correctly. Two interesting observations regarding mass shootings in the US: 1. The shooter is almost always a male in teens to 25 on SSRIs which in Europe are banned for kids due to their side effects which include homicidal rage. 2. Every mass shooting, defined as an instance where 3 or more were killed, took place at a location where legal carrying of guns by citizens was banned. > > 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. Automatic weapons have been used once to commit a crime in the US since 1980, and it was by a police officer. Automatic weapons are very rare uncommon and expensive in this country. Jason > > 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. > -- 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.
