--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 8/11/2003 1:14:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > That would only hold true if the criminals were aware of who did and who > did > > not own guns ahead of time. > > I think the gist of the argument is that legal gun ownership deters crime > in > > general and there are stats that support this. > > > > But nothing is ever going to grind crime to a halt. > > > > I think this type of discussion tends to get people thinking about the > > extremes as opposed to the general tenor of the realities of life. > > > > There are many many millions of guns in the US, yet only a few thousand > or > > so deaths in a given year. A small percentage of deaths by > > any cause. > > Its a mountain made out of a molehill. > > Except the mountain is usually not fatal and the molehill is fatal. > Detering crime is good but the cost may overwhelm the benefit if even a > statistically small number of innocent individuals (in particular the owner > or a family member is killed). After all the death rate in the mole hill is > %100. If we had effective gun control then the death rate would go down for > both the criminals and the victims.
You don't know that. You have not shown sufficient corolation to the stats to say that with any certinty. ===== _________________________________________________ Jan William Coffey _________________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l