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Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:37:07 GMT
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Well that is the price of freedom; you have a 0.00004 percent chance that
you will be killed by some random lunatic with a gun. So this only confirms
my previous analogy of trying to save one’s little finger by chopping off
one’s legs.
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You’re trying to save your little finger by allowing 25 thousand of your
fellow citizens to die violent deaths, just so you can have a piece of metal
in your house.
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I belive the actuall number you wanted was 11,071. The other 16,586 are
suicides. So you are slightly more likely to commit suicide with a gun than get
shot by one. Regardless suicides only affect those that pull the trigger much
like the smoker. So anyway... You are avocating saving the little finger of
society (the 11,071 people shot by abusers of freedom) by chopping off its legs.
(removing that which preserves freedom, the armed citizenry)
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=22112
-Mike Petrucelli
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) I deny the validity of that point--an armed citizenry was valid for preserving freedom in the 18th century against a king who wanted to take that freedom away, but for those of us living in a long running democracy, now in the 21st century, (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) 25,000 violent deaths per year due to firearms is not a 'rampant problem'? 68 deaths a day 3 per hour. In the time it took us to write back and forth, say 3 hours, 9 people have died. 9 people whos violent "non accidental" deaths could have (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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