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- From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: Crime rates in Britain compared
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.010433.8176@informix.com>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 01:04:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.121441.17722@cas.org> <1ds94jINNg1j@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1992Nov12.224610.11549@digi.lonestar.org>
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- In article <1992Nov12.224610.11549@digi.lonestar.org> gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo) writes:
- >In article <1ds94jINNg1j@fido.asd.sgi.com> livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:
- >>
- >>In article <1992Nov11.121441.17722@cas.org>, jac54@cas.org writes:
- >>>
- >>> About 18 months ago, the "Economist" observed that property
- >>> crime rates in some areas of Britain were approaching those
- >>> in the U.S. The murder rate per head of population is about
- >>> 12-fold higher in the U.S. than it is in the U.K.
- >>
- >>Last year, the same "Economist" published a chart showing
- >>that you were statistically safer in Northern Ireland than
- >>in Washington DC.
- >>
- >>But we chewed over all this a year ago. Second Amendment
- >>fans have a zillion ways to explain why this kind of thing
- >>doesn't matter. I certainly won't post further on the
- >>subject.
- >>
- >>jon.
- >
- >As a right wing loon, I'll post on it:
-
- Nonesense, you are obviously a remarkably clear-thinking
- and intelligent individual. I propose that, by the powers
- vested in USENET, we make you an honourary British Citizen.
- Do I here "aye!"?
-
- PAUL
- >
- >I used to be a big second ammendment fan, but I've lost
- >most of my enthusiasm for it. The liklihood of individual
- >citizen gun owners contributing to the regulation of the
- >Militia is next to nill. On the other hand, we are being
- >regulated into hiding by the proliferation of hand guns
- >in our drug infested cities.
- >
- >They say that guns don't kill people, people kill people.
- >But people with guns kill a lot more people than people
- >without 'em. Since the government has the power anyway,
- >I say let's control them the way you do in Britain.
- >
- >Now, what shall we do about those 18th Century marble
- >busts?
- >
- >Gerry Palo
-