On 2/19/10, CheekyGeek <cheekyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a silly thing to discuss on PDML.
Yes, it is. > If we are all better off (safer) if everyone is carrying firearms then > it logically follows that the world is a safer place if all > governments have nuclear weapons. There is only one case of a government ever using nuclear weapons in war time. The US had them and Japan didn't. Wolf, sheep. > If we could imagine two scenarios: one in which > we could magically ASSURE that no one in that conference rooms had a > gun, and one in which we could assure that everyone in that room had a > gun (even if they are all on the table in front of them) ... in WHICH > of those two scenarios is there a 100% chance that NO one would be > dead of gunshot wounds right now? One of those situations is impossible to achieve. The other has the potential to trade a criminal's life for an Innocent's. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
