Andy Hall wrote:
On 2007-10-19 18:14:44 +0100, Eeyore
said:



Andy Hall wrote:

Eeyore said:
Steve Firth wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
Steve Firth wrote:

since the government banned legally owned and
licenced guns, the death rate has risen.

Wrong.

http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF07.htm

1997 when the new Act came in : 201 deaths

2003 :163 deaths,

Ah, lies and damned lies eh? The table makes no distinction between
accidental shooting and murder, and the 1997 data includes
shootings by
the IRA and army.

On what basis would you void the numbers killed by the IRA ?


It's very simple. Yesterday's terrorists are today's freedom fighters.

There is plenty of precedent for that.

It doesn't bring those people back to life. And the IRA was at that
time a
criminal organisation according to UK law.

Graham

Of course. The UK establishment thought the same about David ben
Gurion and in a somwhat different way about Mahatma Gandhi. Times,
perceptions and circumstances change.

The UK establishment thought that about the whole of the USA. Time has
proved it an uncannnily perceptive assessment ;-)

One has to realise that in more cultures than not, the end justifies the
means and life is cheap.

Given that complete spectrum, the means by which killing an injury
happen is irrelevant.