Re: wow - is a "shadow" politician still a politician?

[rms () computerbytesman com]

Let me re-ask a more specific security question:  How many more guns are
going to be needed in private hands in order to reduce the murder rate in
the U.S from its current level of ~5.5 murders per 100,000 people to the
U.K. murder rate of ~1.6 murders per 100,000 people?

Richard


> On 8/28/07, rms () computerbytesman com <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
> > So Brian, just how many more guns is going to take in private hands to
> > bring the U.S. crime rate to the U.K. crime rate?
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/2bcjek
>
> Uncanny - I just posted that same article!
>
> What number of guns would it take to reduce gun crime to the level of
> UK gun crime... hmm... who cares? Considering guns are completely
> banned in the UK should they have ZERO gun crime? And sword crime? And
> knife crime? They do have a fairly high level of assault with hands
> and feet over there though... and I don't think they've banned hands
> and feet yet...

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