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Re: The right to bear arms & make salad
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:20:20 -0500
Actually the U.S. government has been involved in car safety standards for 30+ years. During this time, automobile death rates have dropped substantially. U.S. government anti-smoking campaigns have also dropped smoking rates and smoking-related deaths substantially. Imagine flying on an airplane nowadays if smoking was still allowed. As far as fat people go, is your proposal that we stop eating? ;-) Richard -----Original Message----- From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:02 PM To: Richard M. Smith Cc: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] The right to bear arms & make salad On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:55:31 CDT, "Richard M. Smith" said:
In the US (population c. 298.5m) there were an estimated 16,137 homicides
in
2004 (FBI, 2006a) - a rate of about 5.4 per 100,000. Of these, 10,654 were carried out with guns (FBI, 2006b).
How many people died in car crashes in 2004? How many people died from tobacco and alcohol related issues in 2004? How many people died from weight-related issues in 2004? If we're looking at banning stuff because people are dying, let's at least save more lives by banning cars, tobacco, alcohol, and fat people. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Drsolly (Jul 23)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad William Lefkovics (Jul 22)
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- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Julio Canto (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Gadi Evron (Jul 23)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Julio Canto (Jul 23)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Gadi Evron (Jul 23)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Julio Canto (Jul 23)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Martin Tomasek (Jul 23)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Richard M. Smith (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to arm bears & eat salad Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to arm bears & eat salad Gadi Evron (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to arm bears & eat salad Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Jul 23)
- Re: The right to arm bears & eat salad Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 23)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Blanchard_Michael (Jul 23)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Alex Shipp (elist) (Jul 22)