Your post looks to much like rhetoric than like argument to me. Come on good people and bad people. Are you telling fairy-tails to kids? And for a matter of fact In Europe where gun ownership is more restricted the number of gun death is a lot lower. You can not deny that the U.S has a big big problem with gun violence you can do two things tell bullshit stories or doing something about it that works.
On Apr 29, 11:52 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > Casper Bang wrote: > >> Joshua Marinacci wrote: > >> It's the same reason we try to ban guns to protect children but not > >> swimming pools, which kill far more kids. > > > Spoken like a true American. The difference is of course pools serves > > Well, I don't see the discriminator between true Americans an others :-) > The same different opinions are present in the rest of the world.> a rather > peaceful purpose involving swimming, relaxing and cooling > > off. No matter how you twist and turn it, guns are made to kill and > > the days of the wild west are long gone. > > Come on, please let's be serious. Guns don't kill anybody by themselves; > people using guns do. Guns can be used by bad people to make evil or by > good people to defend themselves and others. In the latest years there > have been quite a few mass killing by crazy people in Europe too, where > gun ownership laws are generally more restrictive than in the USA. To me > this demonstrates that the main problems aren't guns, but crazy (in the > sense of ill) people walking around, that is a failure from the > authorities that should detect mentally ill people and force them into a > hospital. On the other hand, if one is crazy and wants to kill a dozen > people, in case he can't get a gun he's only got to hire a van and run > it into a bus stop.> More to your point about overreaction, why is it people > are not > > allowed to smoke anywhere yet nothing stops them from stuffing their > > face with junk food constantly. With obesity numbers around 40%, seems > > like that puts all the other dangers somewhat into perspective, not > > least the Mexican flu. > > Maybe is it as simple as: because I don't have to eat the junk food that > you're eating on the chair next to me? > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/blog > [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
