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Doug Miller
 
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In article , "Upscale" wrote:
"Doug Miller" wrote in message news:ItZgf.1236
Of course. Most law abiding Canadians don't have guns so it makes sense

that
the criminal element who do have guns are more likely to use them.


And this is better exactly how?


The fewer guns there are in society, the fewer times they're going to be
used.


Clearly contradicted by the statistics that I cited. (BTW, those came from a
Canadian gun control group's web site.)

You seem to think that only criminals use guns.


Where did you get that idea? Certainly wasn't from anything I wrote.

How many law abiding
citizens have shot someone in a fit of rage or simply when they've lost
their temper? How many kids have been shot accidentally when play with their
parent's gun? How many accidents have there been?


All those combined are nowhere nearly as numerous as the criminal misuses of
firearms. And I think you know that. If you don't... educate yourself before
debating the topic further.

How many shootings have happened simply because a gun has been available
instead of a knife, or baseball bat or even fists. While those three things
can definitely kill, they don't come close to inflicting the carnage on the
human body that a bullet can.

Is that simple enough an explanation for you?

You seem to think that just because the US permits it's citizens the
greatest latitude of human rights anywhere, it's necessary for everyone to
go out and partake of all those rights. While owning a gun is one your
rights, it doesn't for one second mean that it's a good right. The human
species it too self centred and too arrogant to know any better.



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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.