Re: FBI: More Guns == Less Crime

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

In general, I think you're right. But I wouldn't expect a group with more
reason than most to be aware of the human capacity for mythmaking to say
"America is a terrible, terrible place: the Coalition of European
Nationalists and Xenophobes says so, and they should know." Naive, I know...

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David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP
Director of Malware Intelligence, ESET

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drsolly [mailto:drsollyp () drsolly com] 
> Sent: 25 December 2009 23:54
> To: David Harley
> Cc: 'David Lodge'; 'funsec'
> Subject: Re: [funsec] FBI: More Guns == Less Crime
>
> We probably do the same thing with the US, believing all 
> sorts of fables about them that aren't actually true.
>
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2009, David Harley wrote:
>
> > > > The UK pulled all guns in the 90's. Violent crime quadrupled.
> >
> > I don't think I can bear to get into this one again. But there is 
> > something I find surprising. I would have thought that this list 
> > includes some of the most hardened sceptics in the IT industry. Yet 
> > lobbyist fabrication, misrepresentation and sheer wishful thinking 
> > about UK gun crime, privacy issues and healthcare are 
> recycled regularly and uncritically here.
> > Now -that- is frightening.
> >
> > --
> > David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP
> > Director of Malware Intelligence, ESET
> >
> >  
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