Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:02:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Cc: crh@outpost.co.nz (Craig Harding), adam@whizkidtech.net (G. Adam Stanislav), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oh no. The Guns Debate (was Re: On "intelligent people" and Message-ID: <200003290302.UAA27687@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0003261858410.2771-100000@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in> from "Rahul Siddharthan" at Mar 26, 2000 07:09:03 PM
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> It's the same thing here. Empirically, there's only one country > that's really famous for frequent school shootings and stuff like > that, and that's the country with the most liberal gun-control > laws. Perhaps this is because America provides most of the sensational television. The rest of the world has a significantly higher rate of terrorism; I'm sure many terrorist countries are only too happy when their victim neighbors disarm their populace. Similarly, the U.S. has not really had mass violence incidents resulting in large scale death, which seem to be common in the rest of the world. The only real exceptions to this are the Civil War, the Revolutionary war, and government actions like those in Waco. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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