RE: Disturbed anti-war protester can't find soldier, kills civilian with axe instead

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts does have strict gun control laws.  We
also have one of the lowest gun death rates in the country:

   Firearms Death Rate per 100,000 
   http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir-death-rate-per-100-000

How many times higher is the gun death rate in your state?

My understanding also is that the gun ownership rate is pretty low in
Massachusetts compared to other parts on the country.

Many of the gun deaths in Massachusetts are concentrated in a handful of Zip
codes in the Southwest part of Boston.  It's mostly poor kids shooting other
poor kids.  The taxi driver I was talking with solved his gun violence
problem by moving out this area.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Henderson [mailto:hendomatic () gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:35 PM
To: rms () computerbytesman com; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Disturbed anti-war protester can't find soldier, kills
civilian with axe instead

Gosh and I thought guns were banned in Bos^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^


Nooooooooooo......




On 9/11/07, rms () computerbytesman com <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
> Her son, the taxi driver, said she was mistaken.  He also said that 
> Nigeria isn't as dangerous as most Americans assume from the news.
>
> However, another taxi driver here in Boston was telling me that he was 
> so freaked out by the random gun violence in the Roxbury section of 
> Boston that he almost went back to Somilia.
>
> Richard
>
>
> > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 rms () computerbytesman com wrote:
> >
> > > I hope that outsiders don't get the idea that Americans are all 
> > > terrorists because of the deranged act of this one guy.
> > >
> > > I've talked to a number of foreigners who assumed before they 
> > > arrived here that the U.S. is like the Wild West with everyone 
> > > carrying guns on the street.  They get this impressions from the 
> > > news, TV shows, movies, etc.
> >
> >  ... and from some Americans on this list. One of them bragged that 
> > he even wore his gun to a wedding.
> >
> > > One taxi driver told me that his mother begged him to stay in 
> > > Nigeria because America was such a dangerous place. ;-)
> >
> > Was she mistaken?
>
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