Re: Mountains Rush and Moore

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 21:11:26 GMT

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:48:43 +0200, in a place far, far away, "Ool"
<ulrich.schreglmann@t-online.de> made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

>> As Robert Heinlein said, "An armed society is a polite society."
>> Statistical research supports this statement; see Lott, John R., "More
>> Guns, Less Crime".
>
>
>Geez, I wonder why the streets in Europe are so much safer then. And
>why the homicide rate is in a whole lower order of magnitude...

There are a number of reasons for that, but gun control isn't one of
them.

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