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> > > On Apr 7, 2:25 pm, Karel Kriz <ka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > On Apr 7, 12:30 pm, Karel Kriz <ka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > > Is this a good time for someone to pry the rifle from his
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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
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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
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> > "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
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> > the time with the guards twiddling their thumbs with nothing to do.
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> > makes us the envy of the world. The logic of "more guns - less crime"
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> > a clear winner.
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> The numbers of incarcerated people in US jails seem to have more to do
> with the ridiculous "war on drugs" than with anything else.
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> The link between easy availability of guns and violence is by no means
> clear, either.
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> 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:
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> http://tinyurl.com/4tu9ss
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> 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.
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> To therefore somehow conclude that defending the right to bear weapons
> is wrong - i.e. the opposite of "decent and upstanding" is plain
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Oh, and let's not forget Holland:
http://tinyurl.com/4rfccq
The Dutch exodus is driven primarily by fear of
crime and social disintegration. It has nothing
to do with firearms.
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