[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "P. J. Alling" Subject: Re: PESO - American Fence > > > >>Hand guns don't cause crime, if that were true once Great Britain banned >>all hand guns, (and made shotgun ownership much more difficult), violent >>crime would have been eliminated, in fact it increased, (violent crime >>rates in England are now higher than in the US). I doubt that smuggling >>firearms is the cause of violent crime in Canada, it's a symptom of >>something else. > > > Straw man argument, Peter. > Gun crimes are more likely to end up with the victim being more seriously > hurt or dead than other types of weapons crimes, and can be used at range > where the victim has less chance of self defence. > True, but he's right about it being a symptom of something deeper. If you put large amounts of guns in the hands of people in Japan, its not going to have any where near the same effect as if you put them in the hands of people in Rwanda or Nigeria. High violent crime rate usually points to something deeper in the social fabric than just the availability of weapons.
> William Robb > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
