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Re: Handgun Death Rate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:52:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > We have issues in this country and more guns is not the answer.
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> Sure it is. Universal armament is the answer. Distribute the entire national
> arsenal to the people where it belongs and you'd see a reign of peace and
> prosperity like no other.
Kind of like the old west, eh? Oh wait, that was called the Wild West for a
reason.
You'd even more people shooting each other for trivial reasons than they do
now. God only knows the carnage that would happen on the freeways.
I mean in excess of the current car-nage. :-)
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> > Not that I would
> > ever condone this, but maybe when someone pops a few caps in Charlton Heston
> > with an AK-47 then he'll rethink the "necessity" of such weapons.
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> Nope. If I'm ever shot or otherwise brutalized, I'll be pissed off that none
> of the witnesses was armed sufficiently to stop the crime. If we all carried
> guns, crime would grind to a screaching halt.
Do you have any actual evidence of such?
Bruce
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Let's be realistic here: there is no *carnage*! I don't even agree that we have a "gun problem". The fact is - *less than* ONE PERCENT of firearms are used illegally! Doesn't sound like much of a problem to me. There are over 200 million guns (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| "Bruce Schlickbernd" <corsair@schlickbernd.org> wrote in message news:GGMv7M.CBM@lugnet.com... (...) entire national (...) peace and (...) West for a (...) they do (...) <snip> Funny, I have been carrying a concealed firearm for 5 years now and no (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Dan, please stop profaning here. In the thread about eduporn you keep profaning but using an asterix in place of one letter. I don't buy that that is appropriate. In this note you didn't even bother. Please do. (...) I prefer to have better than the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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