From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 30 0:36:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24ED437B656 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 00:36:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 4875 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2000 08:35:45 -0000 Received: from theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 30 Mar 2000 08:35:45 -0000 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:05:45 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Craig Harding , "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oh no. The Guns Debate (was Re: On "intelligent people" and In-Reply-To: <200003300200.TAA22147@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Fanatics. > > > Try using a gun against that. > > You can't use a gun against fanatacism, unless you are fighting > a single fanatic. Even then, you can't use it until after you > identify the fanatic, which you can't until after the fact (which > is what makes them a fanatic, rather than "the stange guy who was > always threatening people, so they locked him up"). Quite right. But most terrorists are fanatics. > > would randomly go off in buses. Delhi's not regarded as totally > > safe even crime-wise, but I've never been mugged or robbed at > > gunpoint/knifepoint there, and don't personally know anyone who > > has. > > They probably were afraid to mug you because you might be a > terrorist, and kill them. I don't think you're serious. If you are, it just proves my point about the American gun culture. Violent crime is not so common here, and especially not on the streets -- though after around 9 pm or 10 pm (depending on which city) women may not want to travel alone. My impression on a couple of visits to Europe was that the streets are mostly safe there too. > Another part of it is the differential penalties for juvenile > offenders. Does Dehli have differential penalties for murder > by a 16 year old vs. murder by an 18 year old? I'm not sure, but probably. In particular I doubt there's a death sentence for minors. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message