remco wrote: > 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? > No, I am only telling people a simple fact that holds true since some thousands years and will hold true for all the remaining thousands. If you wish, I'll make you talk with a friend of mine who saved his child thanks to his gun during a night robbery in his house, to see whether the distinction between he's being good and the robber being evil is bullshit.
> 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. > Well, from a scientific attitude which I expect in contexts as this, I'd say that comparing a figure (that, BTW, you are not giving with references) that refers to two systems that cannot be more different from a cultural, social, politic and geographic point of view and jumping immediately to the most immediate conclusion (more gun deaths -> because of more guns) sounds to me very naive. In any case, I fear that if you look at the trends in Europe (or at least in parts of Europe), you would probably be surprised: people in some regions feel less and less secure and tend to own a gun more often that in the past. Clearly the root cause here is the incapability of the state to guarantee security. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
