Kristian Johnsen wrote on Mon, 25 January 2010 18:57 |
Bennett Prescott wrote on Tue, 26 January 2010 00:20 | I am not interested in gun problems. I am interested in violent crime. What tool criminals use to commit crime is irrelevant to me. Obviously, and I have said this before in this thread, if you make it nearly impossible for anyone to have guns there will be fewer guns. If crime correspondingly goes up, as we know it does, then what purpose has been served?
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If what you just said was unconditionally true why is it that some of the European contributors here live in countries where there is little violent crime and few guns?
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Because for some reason, your societies have resolved great disparity. Ours has not. We are working on it.
Kristian,
I'm sure you've heard of the correlation of piracy on the high seas to global warming. The correlation goes that piracy and global warming are inversely proportional to one another. Therefore pirates prevent global warming.
http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/001857.phpBe careful the weight you give to a simple correlation of measurable facts.
Remember this one saying:
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin