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Default OT- Writer Mark Steyn Compares Gun(g) Ho America To "Civilized" Europe or Why Law Abiding Gun Owners Reduce Crime

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 10:06:11 GMT, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

A city wide blackout at Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:21:49 GMT did not prevent "Bob
Swinney" from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking the
following:

Bull**** re. the cost of firearms injuries! Imagine a society in which
there was total zero firearms. All the sickos, criminals and otherwise
plain killers would have to resort to a less efficient way to prey upon the
decent element of society (that's me and you). So you'd have even higher
costs than are now being generated by those that seek to kill us. The gun
is an efficient killing device. The bad guys are smart enough to know that.
I plan to always have one on hand to defend myself. I'm less likely to be
injured by a gun than I am with some sicko wielding a knife - esp. if I am
able to land the first chop, errr, shot.


"Modern technology" - labor saving devices since the invention of pointy
sticks.

Anyone who believes that getting rid of guns will make for a better world,
is advocating the return to the GLory Years of Yore, when Might made Right and
to the Victor went the spoils.



No comment one way or the other. Just interesting:-
http://ije.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/27/2/214.pdf

Mark Rand
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