"BottleBob" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:

"Gunner" wrote in message
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"25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on,
and walk down the street with no permit of any kind:
some say it's crazy. However, 4 out of 5 US murders
are committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?" --
Andrew Ford

Mr. Ford, if there is such a person, is crazy. 'You want the numbers, or
would you rather keep believing a lie and perpetuating it, in good old
effective Joseph Goebbel's style? g

Oh, what the hell: There are 27 open carry states and they represent
32.95%
of the population. They also are the states in which 31.26% of the
murders
are committed. Those are 2001 figures, US Census and FBI Uniform Crime
Reports. I have the Excel workbooks on it if you don't believe it, and
you're welcome to them.

If there is an Andrew Ford, and if you know who he is, you can tell him
for
me that he's either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

Ed:

So would the Andrew Ford quote be acceptable if it were changed to:

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"27 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on,
^^^^
and walk down the street with no permit of any kind:
some say it's crazy. However, **2 out of 3** US murders
^^^^^^^^^^^
are committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?" --

It depends on whether you like propaganda or not. If you find that kind of
argument acceptable (and you know why it is or isn't), you, too, may be
accepted for a Joseph Goebbels Scholarship at the university of your choice.
g

However, it would be statistically correct, in the way that propaganda
sometimes uses the truth to tell lies. Ford's original quote is a lie
itself.

Ed Huntress