Make credence recognised that on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:36:21 -0700,
Hatunen has scripted:
>On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:02:01 +0200, Deeply Filled Mortician
> wrote:
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>>Make credence recognised that on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:48:58 -0700,
>>Hatunen has scripted:
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>>>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:
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>>>>>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.
You're forgiven this time, but I was responding directly to Martian,
who explicity stated the Netherlands.
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