Eh....I forgot to include this in the last post. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/guns/gun-ethics.html
LX On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 04:43, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > How do you know that? Have you lived in Australia or Britain? Have you actually > looked at the official statistics or simply some biased interpretation by the > National Redneck Association [sorry, couldn't resist ;)]? The Australian Bureau > of Statistics (a government body, but their methodology is well-documented and > sound) has shown time and time again that reducing the number of weapons > _reduces_ crime. Some years back (IIRC, it was 1996) we had a big (by Australian > standards) gun massacre in the state of Tasmania. After that, the government > initiated a gun buyback and confiscation scheme, and crime rates dropped. The > City of Sydney introduced restrictions on knives a few years ago; that also > reduced the crime rate. > > But as British PM Benjamin Disraeli once said, "There are lies, damn lies and > statistics". By this he meant that statistics can be easily twisted to argue > whatever you want. Microsoft does this all the time, as does MozillaQuest. One > famous example of this concerned the pesticides Aldrin and Dieldrin (A/D). > American and British scientists both had the same information on hand. > Nevertheless, the American scientists ruled them to be carcinogenic whilst the > British scientists declared them to be safe. > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan > > If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... > ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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