I notice that the article focuses on the victims only. Wouldn't any attempt to solve the problem need to focus on the perpetrators rather than the victims? Why is it only GUN violence that we wish to combat? Why not attack VIOLENCE as the root problem rather than focus only on guns?
Remember that before guns existed rule was by the class of professional fighters such as knights and samurai who spent their lives training. Look at history and see that democracy and firearms evolved concurrently. Without firearms the thugs rule. Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 8:42 AM To: Randy Bennell; Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] N Here's an interesting new study on gun violence, and associated costs, by the Urban Institute: http://blog.metrotrends.org/2014/08/costs-gun-violence-hospital-price-tag/ On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes < [email protected]> wrote: > Probably true but you know what they say about statistics. > > And, I assume your odds of dying in gun violence are a lot higher in > the USA than they are in Canada. > > RB > > On 09/09/2014 7:02 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > >> More people die of: >> Heart disease (by almost a factor of 20) and Medical Mistakes. >> >> Statistically speaking your chance of dying in gun violence is >> astonishingly small. >> >> -Curt >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list > owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
