> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@>
wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > The reason this is off the mark is that in London during the
> > Victorian era virtually everyone owned a handgun...it was a common
> > as owning a TV is today. And practically everyone carried it with
> > them, just as in the Wild West.
> >
> > What's even more amazing is that despite an almost universal
> > ownership of guns, the murder rate by guns in London at that time
> > was almost next to nothing...maybe one or two a year.
>
> Except by Jack the Ripper, of course...
Not to mention that Shemp's stats are bullshit.
In Victorian London, 70% of the population could
barely afford clothes and food, much less a gun.
As usual, he's talking about the rich as if they
were the only ones who 'counted.'
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