On Apr 30, 2:04 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.
Yes and I have a grandfather who smoked and lived to be 90 so all of
that smoking is bad for you is also 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.
I know why people need guns in some parts of the world but that rural
mentality simply does not work in the urban setting I know.
>
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