Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
John Stossel on Virginia Tech and Gun Control
Message
From
01/05/2007 05:50:43
 
 
General information
Forum:
Politics
Category:
Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01220264
Message ID:
01221362
Views:
11
>>>>>Just read yesterday (in may weekly news digest):
>>>>>
>>>>>Since JFK was assassinated there have been more Americans killed by gun, by their fellow citizens, than in all the wars of the 20th century put together.
>>>>>
>>>>>A comparison of similar cities: Seattle and Vancouver showed that whereas the number of people dying of violence in general was about the same, that of those dying of gunshots in the Canadian city was only a fraction of that in the American city. Can't remember what the study period was.
>>>>>
>>>>>Nuff said
>>>>
>>>>If you think the guns are dangerous, look up the statistics on how many have died at the hands of the medical community, or by automobile. Those numbers dwarf handgun deaths.
>>>
>>>OK then we should ban doctors and cars!
>>>
>>>Is this a spurious argument that negates what I've just written then? Just cos one stat is worse than another doesn't mean you don't have to do anything about the lesser.
>>
>>So, if you have a pinhole in one end of your boat, and a gaping hole in the other, which do you pay more attention to?
>
>The only gaping hole here is in your argument. So we should, as I say, ban medical staff from practising and cars (the gaping hole), but pay no attention to gun control (the pinhole), because the first two kill more people?????
>
>And treating one is mutually exclusive from treating the others?
PMFJI as they say.

But whats important here is that the anti gun lobby and the pro gun lobby listen to each other. I'm anti gun but I can see that some Americans genuinely feel they are safer if they own a gun. They have a problem we don't have which is the huge number of guns in circulation and that legislation will mainly hit the legitimate gun owner leaving all the other illegal guns in circulation . Its a bit like over here speed cameras only catch the legitimate driver(ie properly registered car). I'm not sure how the US can close their pandoras box.

Nick
Previous
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform