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Re: Violence created by presence of guns? (was: Gotta love Oracle...)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:48:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
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> "Tom Stangl" <tom.stangl@sun.com> wrote in message news:3BC3637E.62D9EAD4@sun.com...
> > Lawrence Wilkes wrote:
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> > > "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message news:3BC2954C.27A2A300@vfaq.com...
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> > > >
> > > > You're comparing vastly different countries, with different mindsets. Compare
> > > > within a country, especially within the US, and you'll see that states that allow
> > > > easy lawful access to guns tend to have lower violent crime rates.
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> > > How are the US, Canada, and the UK "vastly different countries, with different mindsets"?
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> > How are they NOT? While they share many similarities, can you seriously say the mindset of the
> > country as a whole is the same between them?
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> I think it depends on the intepretation of 'vast'.
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> US, Iran, Thailand - now thats more like vast.
> US, Canada, UK - that's just shades of grey in my book.
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> > Canada and the UK seem to lean too far to the Socialist side compared to the US, IMO. There are
> > many other differences, and I'm sure many others in here can bring them up if needed.
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> Being more socialist doesnt make them socialist. Still shades of grey. Real socialists would think none of them
> socialist.
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> > Not hardly. Canada and the UK don't have the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights
> > as their basis (and neither will the US if some foamers have their way!).
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> So what.
> Because we don't have one doesn't mean our values, culture, etc are that different.
It means that we have a legal framework which reflects the way we live
today. We are not held ransom by a bunch of politically appointed lawyers
arguing over semantics based on a centuries old piece of paper.
Scott A
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> regards
> lawrence
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