Re: GUNS: Fear of Guns Vs. Fear of No Guns

Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:02:36 -0500

Date sent:      	Mon, 07 Jun 1999 16:38:27 -0400
From:           	"Michael S. Lorrey" <mike@lorrey.com>
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To:             	extropians@extropy.com
Subject:        	Re: GUNS: Fear of Guns Vs. Fear of No Guns
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> mark@unicorn.com wrote:
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> > QueeneMUSE@aol.com wrote:
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> > >But guns are clearly out of control and our country is insane. We need to do
> > >SOMETHING.
> >
> > Ho hum, emotional rhetoric, yes, that's really going to convince people. BTW,
> > the number of murders and the number of shooting accidents (which often
> > include suicides classified as 'accidents' by the cops for various reasons)
> > have been going down for years; so why is this 'clearly out of control'?
>
> yes, the only activities which are at lower risk are civil aviation, getting
> struck by lightning, and a few others. The firearns accident rates for children
> and overall are less than a tenth of the rates at the turn of the century.
>
Au contraire; the number of people in the US who died of gunshot- related injuries in 1995 was 32,909. These figures were furnished by James R. Peterson, a progun activist, in the August issue of Playboy Magazine. This is less than the number killed on the highway the same year, but not by a whole lot.
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> > >How about: Mothers Against Gun Greedy Errant Rednecks (MUGGERS)???
> >
> > Ah, call your opponent a 'redneck', and then you can laugh at them, right?
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> While some people I know think that its the soccer mom who will bring about the
> end of our constitutional democracy, I just think they will turn the entire
> country into the rubber room they want their kids to grow up in and never leave.
> How about Mothers Against Teaching Children How to Get Out from Under Their
> Skirts.
>
Yeah, Let's All Be Ballsy Men and Gun Each Other Down! Jeez, when gunpowder gets mixed with testosterone, the mixture is not only explosive, but also lunifying.
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> Mike Lorrey
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