On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Bob Blakely wrote: > I've tried to stay out of this OT thread
Me too, but.... > Each year, approximately 150,000 folks are killed by physician and > pharmaceutical error. Most of these folks were not involved in any life or > limb threatening situation. This dwarfs folks killed in automobiles > ~50,000 and those killed by firearms ~20,000. Presented for > perspective... The BBC reckons 30,000 killed, 90,000 injured in the USA each year. Last year the figure for England and Wales was.... 42 killed. Corrected for population we'd probably be looking at about 6000 more dead peaple a year if we had your gun laws. But think; 30,000 people dead! It strikes me that America has gone to war and shaken up its entire society for 1/10th of that number of people killed in New York. You can't dismiss 30,000 or even 20,000 people as 'perspective'! But lighten up please, don't take this gun thing too seriously guys. The thing is it's YOUR country and if you want guns then you can vote to have them. However the UK and Australia are also democratic countries and by and large we feel safer the way we are. Honest, we're happy, we don't feel oppressed :-) Chris -- Dr Chris Stoddart: Unix SysAdmin, Department of Computer Science, Sheffield University, U.K. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
