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To: Vectorian
If I follow your logic, you mean that when you allow people to own guns, you get a lot more murders?

Yup. That's why we don't allow felons to posses firearms. If we were to ban automobiles, highway fatalities would plummet.

However, Switzerland is eat up with guns. It all has to do with population. For instance, I live in a region with one of the highest per-capita gun ownership rates (Appalachia). But murders are extremely rare here. I could change the statistics and probably make our murder rate less than yours. We just get rid of the most-populated areas

169 posted on 06/28/2006 10:06:30 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

'Yup. That's why we don't allow felons to posses firearms. If we were to ban automobiles, highway fatalities would plummet. '

Same here. A car has a touch more utility to it than a handgun though, and is somewhat trickier to conceal about ones person.

'However, Switzerland is eat up with guns. It all has to do with population. For instance, I live in a region with one of the highest per-capita gun ownership rates (Appalachia). But murders are extremely rare here. I could change the statistics and probably make our murder rate less than yours. We just get rid of the most-populated areas'

And I could survey the muslims living in my garden shed and tell you there aren't any, but it wouldn't have any meaning! :D


180 posted on 06/28/2006 10:31:43 AM PDT by Vectorian
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