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Re: Comparative gun homicide rate USA vs UK

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 16 Dec 12 4:07 AM | 70 view(s)
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So okay - as a price the democrats should pay to the right to set alongside a change in gun laws.

A death tax on movies. For every death caused by violence, a fee of $5m.

Enough of the glorification of violence. Surely Aurora was enough of a hint.

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Comparative gun homicide rate USA vs UK
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sun, 16 Dec 12 3:52 AM 		Msg. 12235 of 54959

A person has one hundred times the likelihood of being murdered using a gun in the USA (which has rights) than they do in the UK (which has restrictions).

So curiously, the right to self-defence appears to make it more likely you will be killed by someone else with a gun than where such a right does not exist.

This is because there is, in fact, no way to distinguish the right to self-defence from the ability to attack someone. A gun is a gun.

Interestingly, it is also far more likely that you will kill yourself with a gun than that someone else kills you with one.

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