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From: penny@pen.rhys
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:58:05 GMT, "pcourterelle"
wrote:
>
>"penny" wrote in message
>news:esigs19j7rmvvicda5u7js46kol03m5a8f@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:16:43 GMT, "pcourterelle"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Ladies Choice" wrote in message
>>>news:%_Bwf.46787$km.26769@edtnps89...
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Just as a lot of booze went South in the 20's you can bet guns will
>>>>>continue
>>>>>to flow North if there is even a small black market for them.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Indeed, but that isn't really an argument against banning guns.
>>>
>>>So the efficacy of the law banning handguns really isn't an issue since it
>>>won't prevent them from flowing north? By all means, place your finger in
>>>the dike while its walls crumble around you and call it success. Banning
>>>handguns is a base electroral ploy and nothing more.
>>>
>>>pc
>>
>> One study found that the U.S. murder rate without handguns was
>> roughly equivalent to that of Canada, while the murder rate with
>> handguns was 14.5 times greater.
>>
>> Another study found homicide of a family member was 2.7 times more
>> likely if the home had a firearm than if it did not. The same study
>> found suicide was nearly 5 times more likely in homes with one or more
>> firearms.
>>
>
>You have an uncanny knack for missing the point and misconstruing
>information. The above speaks to your desperate need to eliminate individual
>choice and responsibility in Canada. It says nothing but the efficacy of
>policies to ban handguns while the border is porous and the flow of handguns
>from the United States is uncontrollable.
You're getting carried away, pcourt. Your " desperate need " isn't
allowing you to absorb my statistics and then rebutting them with
aplomb insted of resorting to ad hominems.
Penny
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