From: Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Date: Mon Jun 07 1999 - 17:02:36 MDT
Date sent: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 16:38:27 -0400
From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mike@lorrey.com>
Organization: http://lorrey.com http://artlocate.com
To: extropians@extropy.com
Subject: Re: GUNS: Fear of Guns Vs. Fear of No Guns
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> mark@unicorn.com wrote:
>
> > QueeneMUSE@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > >But guns are clearly out of control and our country is insane. We need to do
> > >SOMETHING.
> >
> > Ho hum, emotional rhetoric, yes, that's really going to convince people. BTW,
> > the number of murders and the number of shooting accidents (which often
> > include suicides classified as 'accidents' by the cops for various reasons)
> > have been going down for years; so why is this 'clearly out of control'?
>
> yes, the only activities which are at lower risk are civil aviation, getting
> struck by lightning, and a few others. The firearns accident rates for children
> and overall are less than a tenth of the rates at the turn of the century.
>
Au contraire; the number of people in the US who died of gunshot-
related injuries in 1995 was 32,909. These figures were furnished
by James R. Peterson, a progun activist, in the August issue of
Playboy Magazine. This is less than the number killed on the
highway the same year, but not by a whole lot.
>
> > >How about: Mothers Against Gun Greedy Errant Rednecks (MUGGERS)???
> >
> > Ah, call your opponent a 'redneck', and then you can laugh at them, right?
>
> While some people I know think that its the soccer mom who will bring about the
> end of our constitutional democracy, I just think they will turn the entire
> country into the rubber room they want their kids to grow up in and never leave.
> How about Mothers Against Teaching Children How to Get Out from Under Their
> Skirts.
>
Yeah, Let's All Be Ballsy Men and Gun Each Other Down! Jeez,
when gunpowder gets mixed with testosterone, the mixture is not
only explosive, but also lunifying.
>
> Mike Lorrey
>
>
>
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