On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:24:03 +0200, Deeply Filled Mortician
wrote:
>Make credence recognised that on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:53:11 +0200,
>Martin has scripted:
>
>>On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:58:40 +0200, Deeply Filled Mortician
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Make credence recognised that on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:24:42 +0200,
>>>Martin has scripted:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:09:32 -0700, Icono Clast wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The Reid wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:08:34 +0200, Deeply Filled Mortician
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> England has nothing like this, but a heap of precedent instead.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> which enabled us to modify gun laws after a massacre through normal
>>>>>> democratic political process without studying the magna carta with a
>>>>>> magnifying glass first.
>>>>>
>>>>>A commentator noted that such people exist everywhere but that it's
>>>>>only here that they can buy guns.
>>>>
>>>>People can and do buy guns anywhere. In the US you can buy them via a shop or
>>>>mail order. There are plenty of guns in circulation in UK.
>>>
>>>In the UK it usually raises a few more eyebrows than in the US.
>>
>>There's incredibly tight gun control in the Netherlands and frequent shootings.
>>
>>Legislation doesn't stop people acquiring guns.
>
>It sure slows them down, and not having a gun makes crimes of passion
>far less likely to be fatal.
>
>``If you have a country saturated with guns -- available to people
>when they are intoxicated, angry or depressed -- it's not unusual guns
>will be used more often,''
>
>http://www.guncite.com/cnngunde.html
>
>It's a bit old this article, but it does show gun deaths are a
>whopping 20 times higher in the USA!
Unless you say higher than what, that's a meaningless statement.
Certainly not twenty time higher than Brazil or Mexico. But it's
higher than Japan by a factor of 284.
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