Ingenious. Northern Ireland is therefore an example of gun control failing -and- of relaxed gun controls succeeding.
-- David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP Director of Malware Intelligence, ESET > -----Original Message----- > From: Tomas L. Byrnes [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 27 December 2009 17:33 > To: [email protected]; funsec > Subject: RE: [funsec] FBI: More Guns == Less Crime > > The argument was more guns less CRIME, not more guns less > crime with guns. > > The tradeoff is more crimes with guns for a lot less overall > crime. I think that is a lot preferable to what goes on in > the UK and Ireland. > > BTW: Aside from issues related to the troubles, which have > now mostly faded into insignificance, NI has always had lower > crime than the rest of the UK, or the Republic since 1972. > Kind of makes the point of the > OP: More guns, less crime. Your post made my point. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Harley [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 3:18 AM > To: Tomas L. Byrnes; 'funsec' > Subject: RE: [funsec] FBI: More Guns == Less Crime > > > Your problem is that you only focus on "Gun Crime". > > Uh-huh. If you don't like the argument you're in, pretend > it's a different one. It wasn't me who defined the subject > for this thread. > > FWIW, I can certainly agree that firearms-unrelated violent > crime in the UK is a bigger problem than gun crime. I'm > surprised but happy to hear that it's less of a problem in the US. > > I'd suggest leaving aside Ireland, where the political issues > have introduced a whole raft of extra complications - isn't > self-defence still considered a valid reason to own a firearm > in Northern Ireland? At any rate, N.I. law seems a lot more > gun-friendly than the rest of the UK. > > -- > David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP > Director of Malware Intelligence, ESET > > > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
