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Re: Charlton Heston RIP

"James Prine" <jsprine@aol.com> wrote in message
news:9dac2dc2-a8e3-4f94-81fb-0160759dab42@u3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
On Apr 7, 2:42 am, "Blofelds Cat" <nos...@farcough.com> wrote:
> Actually you ARE the one shaking in fear if you think that you won't be
> able
> to survive your lifetime without a gun by your side.
>
> cheers.

>>I've had to use firearms (and other bits of ironmongery) to save my
>>life on more than a couple of occasions during my career.  Managed to
>>preserve the lives of several of my colleagues along the way, as
>>well.


James, you and I have been on this no-win debate train before, and I have no
reason to doubt that what you say is true.  But...would you not agree that
had gun laws been established and enforced in the US *before* the obscene
proliferation that exists today, that there would have been virtually no
need to save you or your colleagues lives from (I'm assuming here) a
gun-wielding bad-guy?

That's not even considering the 29,665 Americans that die every year via
handgun.  (1997)
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/04/21/weekinreview/20070422_MARSH_GRAPHIC.html

And yes, there have been ingenious ways in which murder has been committed
without the use of a gun.  But can anyone say that the same level of
horrific carnage at Virginia Tech or NIU or Columbine (as three examples)
could have been achieved without the use of automatic (or semi-automatic)
weapons?  Of course not!

Other stats: The United States accounted for 45 percent (the U.S. accounts
for less than 7% of the total population tallied) of the 88,649 gun deaths
reported worldwide in the (1994) study, the first comprehensive
international scrutiny of gun-related deaths.
Gun-related deaths per 100,000 people by country:

a.. U.S.A. 14.24
b.. Brazil 12.95
c.. Mexico 12.69
d.. Estonia 12.26
e.. Argentina 8.93
f.. Northern Ireland 6.63
g.. Finland 6.46
h.. Switzerland 5.31
i.. France 5.15
j.. Canada 4.31
k.. Norway 3.82
l.. Austria 3.70
m.. Portugal 3.20
n.. Israel 2.91
o.. Belgium 2.90
p.. Australia 2.65
q.. Slovenia 2.60
r.. Italy 2.44
s.. New Zealand 2.38
t.. Denmark 2.09
u.. Sweden 1.92
v.. Kuwait 1.84
w.. Greece 1.29
x.. Germany 1.24
y.. Hungary 1.11
z.. Ireland 0.97
aa.. Spain 0.78
ab.. Netherlands 0.70
ac.. Scotland 0.54
ad.. England and Wales 0.41
ae.. Taiwan 0.37
af.. Singapore 0.21
ag.. Mauritius 0.19
ah.. Hong Kong 0.14
ai.. South Korea 0.12
aj.. Japan 0.05


The U.S. at the very top of this list.

Geezus.  It's obscenely tragic.



Tom Zielinski

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