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Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:41:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
> > > Using the theroy (sp) that armed people prevent crimes, it would seem to be
> > > discredited rather quickly by looking at statistics.
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> > Thanks--that's exactly my point!
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> OK, how about this; Almost all crimes that are prevented by armed people,
> rather than something else, are not police but rather armed citizens. Is
> that better?
If you're being facetious, that's fine, but the issue is that you can't
reasonably assume that X number of crimes are prevented by any particular
factor, without additional evidence or criteria.
> Seriously though we need to keep this whole "high crime rate in
> the US" thing is perspective. A person more likely to be killed in a car
> accident on their way to work then they are to be robbed by an armed
> criminal and live through it. (And armed robbery is far more frequent than
> actually being killed by a criminal.)
That may be so, but so what? The fact remains that gun-homicide rates are
shockingly high in the US (with its relatively loose gun control laws) as
compared with other nations (some of which have relatively tight gun control
laws). Relative to other nations, the US gun-homicide rates *is* high,
objectively speaking. It is irrelevant whether rates of US car-accident-death
are also high.
Remember, I'm not a fanatical gun control advocate, either. I just don't
accept flawed reasoning as a justification for increased gun ownership.
Dave!
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