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  Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
 
(...) That's not quite right. Logically, data cannot be used selectively to demonstrate the efficacy of gun control laws. However, it does not logically follow, therefore, that no correlation exists between gun control and gun crime. I happen to (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
 
(...) I would add to that the media slogan "if it bleeds, it leads" in terms of priority of news coverage. At least one study has demonstrated that murder rates have gone down by something like 18% over some recent period of time, but news coverage (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
 
(...) Did you read what you wrote? (...) So making Hadguns illegal has only caused criminals to use other guns. (What a surprise.) Have you ever heard of the Black Market. Criminals will always have guns. (...) can draw is that both sides are using (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
 
(...) Online, I have no idea. Now in the papers, on the radio, on TV there have been numerous citations of studies which indicate that the crime rate as gone down but the brutality of crimes that do happen has increased, giving the overall (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: LEGO, Conan O'Brien, TODAY SHOW
 
(...) Having watched the entire spot, I would agree with Rick's assessment. If anything, Conan was polite and took it all in comedic stride. Regards, Allan B. (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Stop the madness...
 
If you think that's a proof of madness, then I can top your story: (URL) proves IMO that it is not the plaintiff who is an idiot - it's whomever pays him attention and hasn't got the guts to say no. Pedro (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Dates of New Lego Store openings?
 
(...) Hey, keep your regional fighting in the .loc groups where it belongs - and NOT in the CA group! We don't care about all y'all's lack of technology. Besides, Oakland BBQ rocks any other off the plate! Come out here and try some Everett & Jones (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.market.shopping)
 
  Re: Stop the madness...
 
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote: <snip> (...) And see, that's the line for me. If a corp. is negligent and that negligence harm, then the corp. should be on the hook. If you are in a drunken stupor, and you, in that intoxicated state, (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: Stop the madness...
 
(...) So you're saying that anyone who seeks compensation for a dumb action that he himself commits must be a liberal? I suspect that you're kidding, because otherwise you're asserting that no Conservative has ever sought, will ever seek, or would (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 
  Re: Stop the madness...
 
(...) Well, either he's a liberal who genuinely feels he's been victimized, or a new liberal who has been convinced (by a shyster who gets 40% off of the top) that he is owed something somehow. (...) Now, now, not so, Dave! Please don't sit there (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)


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