A city wide blackout at Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:21:49 GMT did not prevent "Bob Swinney" from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
"Modern technology" - labor saving devices since the invention of pointy sticks.
Anyone who believes that getting rid of guns will make for a better world, is advocating the return to the GLory Years of Yore, when Might made Right and to the Victor went the spoils.
Now I'm curious, in construction they have so many deaths per work performed/money spent etc. Is there a baseline for deaths per complex product? 100 million guns = 10,000 deaths. 200 million cars = 20,000 deaths. 10 thousand punch presses = 10 deaths. Build a better mouse trap and it's going to kill at least 2% of the buyers.
C
No comment one way or the other. Just interesting:-
The most interesting thing is the implied concept that a "firearm death" is somehow more awful than any other form of homicide or suicide. What the numbers seem to show is that in places where firearms are easily available, they are the tool of choice, but where they aren't easily available, other methods are used. No big surprise there.
Gary
About 2% of Shuttle flights break up either during ascent or descent.
Gary
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 04:58:04 -0500, Gary Coffman brought forth from the murky depths:
The term was probably coined "for the children!" Other than that, the CDC data seems to be fairly decent.
Riddle me this: Why is an epidemiological society looking into firearm deaths and/or suicide? The term is defined as "That which deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population."
Firearms and suicide are diseases now?!?
Supporting your statement, 98% of suicides in the UK used methods other than firearms since they're less available there.
(And look at those suicide figures. Asia is VERY depressed while most of "civilised" Europe is ahead of the USA in figures, Mr. Steyn.)
Why are suicides included with crimes, anyway? And why aren't new forms of suicide included in reports? Methods such as smoking, drinking, overeating, and "talking on cell phone while driving"? Advanced societies, huh? ;>
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