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Old Apr 16, 2007, 09:49 pm   #9 (permalink) (top)
shawmutt
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Here we go again. For one thing "This was made very quiet in the news but that's what happened" does not happen. Every time some hero pulls out a gun and saves the day it's blathered all over the news, especially with the 24 hour news-starved networks out there. Even if they didn't get the story right, every single right-wing, pro-gun, pro-ccw website out there repeats the story over and over.

Less told are the stories of someone getting shot for pulling out a gun and the stories of people rising to the occasion without the benefit of a gun.

One cannot predict the future. Someone can't say, "if only there was a., b. could have been prevented". There is one guarantee though, the more concealed weapon carriers there are, the more likely one of them will commit a crime (this is an answer to the inevitable "only .00009% of carriers commit a crime").

Just out of curiousity, how many school shootings have occurred in the UK over the last ten years or so? Perhaps it's time to look beyond "more guns" and try to figure out what "donuts" means


78% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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