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Title: One for the Toad
Post by: beet1e on April 30, 2003, 08:04:05 AM

Discuss this amongst yourselves. I'm keeping quiet!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030430/80/dywm3.html

Title: One for the Toad
Post by: ra on April 30, 2003, 08:12:32 AM

A gun amnesty brings in 17,000 guns.  So how does that affect the rate of gun crime?

A gun is an object, a gun crime is an act.

ra

Title: One for the Toad
Post by: Toad on April 30, 2003, 08:17:22 AM

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"We've not been naive about this," he said. "We're not expecting queues of gangsters to come in and hand in their weapons. We're trying to make it as difficult as possible for them to get their hands on weapons."

That's where it all falls down. As even Moore, in his wandering BFC, discovered in Canada, it's not the number of guns. It's something else.

Now, there are those that will turn the "search for the identity of 'something else' " into a great crusade...... it's pretty simple.

Title: One for the Toad
Post by: Pongo on April 30, 2003, 08:58:36 AM

number of guns is a big part of it.

Title: One for the Toad
Post by: Toad on April 30, 2003, 09:29:01 AM

Well, that's not a conclusion Moore came to in his documentary that so many anti-gun seem to swoon over. In fact, one of his "findings" is that is has to be something else.

And who can dispute Moore, eh?  ;)