On Apr 8, 9:52 am, Karel Kriz <ka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> kujebak <kuje...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Apr 7, 2:25 pm, Karel Kriz <ka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > kujebak <kuje...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On Apr 7, 12:30 pm, Karel Kriz <ka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > kujebak <kuje...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > Is this a good time for someone to pry the rifle from his cold,
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> > > > > ...a mediocre actor and a poseur. No greatness there...
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> > > > Did you know he was married for over 60 years?
> > > > To the same woman I might add.
> > > > That's quite remarkable in this day and age,
> > > > wouldn't you say? Especially for an actor, and
> > > > a ... whatever ;-)
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> > > Marriage longevity is just one brownie point! Deduct two brownie
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> > > for being the front man for the NRA, deduct two brownie points for
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> > > Planet of The Apes, deduct two brownie points for Earthquake....and
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> > > and on. The final count is in the negative, I am afraid.
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> > You got something against guns in the hands of decent,
> > upstanding citizens Heston epitomized?
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> I don't particularly care for guns regardless who has them. Firing a
> semi automatic rifle at defenseless cans of Coors in the desert is not
> an orgasmic experience for me.
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> Misreading and misinterpreting the Second Amendment hardly qualifies as
> "decent and upstanding". But I understand why NRA feels that everyone
> should be armed to the teeth. It all works so well. We have one of the
> lowest murder rates in the world and our prisons are half empty most of
> the time with the guards twiddling their thumbs with nothing to do. That
> makes us the envy of the world. The logic of "more guns - less crime" is
> a clear winner.
The numbers of incarcerated people in US jails seem to have more to do
with the ridiculous "war on drugs" than with anything else.
The link between easy availability of guns and violence is by no means
clear, either.
I am personally no fan of guns, but at the same time I would
acknowledge that there exist countries with higher per-person gun
owner****p and significantly lower murder rates than the US
(Switzerland, for example), while on the other hand there are also
countries with strict gun controls in place and yet suffering from
relatively high rates of gun-related violence. According to this
source, Canada is a case in point:
http://tinyurl.com/4tu9ss
The article may perhaps not be entirely correct, but there are plenty
of sources that paint a similar story. As they say - where there is
smoke, there is fire.
To therefore somehow conclude that defending the right to bear weapons
is wrong - i.e. the opposite of "decent and upstanding" is plain
silly.
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