--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:51:45PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > The last time Super Bowl fell on a NANOG (NANOG 15) > > a local redneck put a bullet through the nearest atm machine, if i > remember aright. this nanog, we'll be in a strange socialist country, > where they seem not to realize that the ability to be armed for murder > and mayhem is an inalienable right, but health care is seen as one. > strange people, strange customs. maybe it's the climate. surely you realise that kanadistan has a higher rate of gun ownership than the US, right? it probably is the climate, though: people simply don't kill each other as often when it's colder and up here at these locales, it's colder a lot more often. ------------------------------------------------------------------ You're speaking of registered guns. For example, Texas has four registered guns for every man, woman and child in the state. However, many, many folks there are fervently against gun registration. End of the world and all that... Extrapolate from those data points and you get the idea. :-) scott