Okay, I made light reference to it before - but I'll be more direct. How about we call it a draw and you guys take this conversation off list?
On Apr 30, 10:04 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
