On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:02:01 +0200, Deeply Filled Mortician
wrote:
>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.
There's quite a bit of diluter in between that context and the
article citation. Sorry I didn't get it.
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