Whilst I grant my 50,000 was wrong it was a lot closer than 624!!! And 'only' 11624 gun homicides still makes my point. That is still TEN times our rate per head of population.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pete Theisen Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2010 4:04 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] Welcome to Deemocracy geoff wrote: > So lets just accept 31000 as the figure as opposed to australias <100. You > have TWENTY times the rate of gun deaths. That works for my argument just as > well 30 times. Hi Geoff, Yes, but we aren't quite finished. You just exaggerated our gun deaths by 19,104, how do you know that the "less than 100 in Australia" is in any way accurate? Did it include accidents and suicides as you insist we include? I know you, of all people, would *never* want to compare apples to, say, oranges. You didn't provide a link. Was it a "government source", as you insisted I provide? Could it be that it came from an Aussie "pro-gun site? And I think I found my post from last year. "There are only 11,624 homicides by gun." A far cry from 50,000. Is it possible that you like to spin things yourself? http://leafe.com/archives/msg/412396 > You missed my last post, there are more, but the design of the database > put them in many different tables, with no links. John Harvey just > posted a figure I am sure is correct, 30,896, including homicides, > accidents and suicides. John Harvey is a government source. > > There are not 50,000. I am searching the archives now to find the post > where you say I said there were. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
