On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:37:06 -0600, Richard
wrote:

On 2/22/2013 9:51 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:

But I'd
bet that guns would STILL be available at a bit higher price. I still
ask you: Why not make murder illegal? Wouldn't that solve the problem?

Find out how many people would be murdered if murder were NOT illegal.
Then compare that with the number who actually are murdered.

There's your answer.

You can start with yourself. d8-)


Ed, you are good at this type of research.
Dig into it and report back?

Tom's question is a nonsense question. My answer was a nonsense
answer.

If you believe in cross-country examples (and what good gun nut
doesn't?), you could consider Côte d'Ivoire (56.9 murders per 100,000
population. If it's illegal there, it appears they don't enforce the
law.

That contrasts with Yemen (4.2) or the United States (4.8).
Turkmenistan is a little better than us, too (4.2).

Here's an interesting fact: Georgia (the country), at 4.3, is somewhat
safer than Georgia (the state), at 5.6.

What company we keep!


WHO is killing WHOM? And where?

My impression is that the big numbers are black on black and have drug
connotations.

Da Hood is not exactly Mr. Robert's Neighborhood.

It seems to me that is something we would want to know before making
any kind of rational decisions here...

Why? Don't they use guns? Or are you planning to put them all in a
cage?

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Ed Huntress