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Subject: Re: Favorite country? Posted on: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:02:01 +0200

Make credence recognised that on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:48:58 -0700,
Hatunen has scripted:

>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:

>>>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.

Note the context. 20 times higher than The Netherlands.
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