On 8 Dec 2003 06:44:43 -0800, (Carl
Nisarel) wrote:

"JTMcC" wrote in message ...
"Carl Nisarel" wrote in message
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BottleBob wrote

Carl Nisarel wrote:

(Richard Lewis) wrote


Armed robberies in the US in 2000....408K; rape....90K;
assault....910K etc etc etc.
....

Robberies 420,637

Do *you* understand the difference between robbery and armed robbery?

Do you understand the difference between having "a 'loved one'
assaulted by a unethical criminal, intent on taking stuff and doing
bodily harm" and those statistics?

If you do not, you're simply one of the idiots. Richard's data does
not match Richards claim. His claim was simply emotional drivel
unsupported by actual data.

I wouldn't let a personal negative bias against a person, or group,
interfere with an impartial evaluation of relevant statistics.

Dude, those are not the relevant statistics. Richard created the
definition and then moved the goalpost.

Are you aware of the fact that most assaults and rapes are committed
by someone known to the victim?

OK, so someone my wife, or daughter KNOWS tries to assult my wife, or
daughter.

That someone is more likely to be you, or your son, than a stranger.

Cites?

Gunner

No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound
woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil?
Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence,
they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest
animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that,
and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make
it work.
- L. Neil Smith