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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 14:05:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Powell writes:
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> > Simple - they go to areas where weapons are hard to *lawfully* get. • Statistics
> > prove this out - the easier it is to *lawfully* get a gun, hence the more • *lawful*
> > citizens have them, the lower the "bad" crimes in the area.
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> Hmmm...I hate to point this out:
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> UK murder rate by handgun is lower than US one...hmmm, seems that the
> _opposite_ effect is true.
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> Or, look at Canada/US . Same sort of effects. Although, I think that it has a
> lot to do with sociatal pressures. If society pressures no gun use, then gun
> use will go down (and, conversely, other weapons will become the weapon of
> choice...)
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> I'd far rather take my chances with a Canadian Mugger than a US one, because
> 95/100 up here, all I would face is a knife. And, the bleeding idiot had
> better know how to use it.
In close quarters, or in terms of hand-to-hand self-defense, a knife can often
be deadlier than a gun. Based on what I've learned in self-defense classes, and
from a bit of personal training by a friend who teaches martial arts, attempting
a knife-strip to disarm an attacker can often be more dangerous than disarming
someone with a gun. There are a number of pretty fast and effective ways to
turn a handgun back on your assailant or use a combination of strikes to remove
the gun and assault your attacker. Clearly, defending yourself against a hand-
gun in close quarters is very dangerous, but when push-comes-to-shove and my
life depends upon it, I'd rather face someone with a gun in close quarters than
a knife (at least a gun has surface area that can be grabbed.)
james
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