Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wjafyfe From: wjafyfe@watmath.UUCP (Andy Fyfe) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.rec Subject: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA Message-ID: <10907@watmath.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 21:59:02 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.10907 Posted: Mon Jan 14 21:59:02 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 01:39:41 EST References: <1924@sun.uucp> <10827@watmath.UUCP> <1935@sun.uucp> Reply-To: wjafyfe@watmath.UUCP (Andy Fyfe) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 36 Xref: watmath net.politics:6843 net.rec:214 Summary: In article <1935@sun.uucp> sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) writes: >> If Sunny's representative, I not sure graduate school in the US is >> such a good idea! >> >> --andy fyfe ...!{decvax, allegra, ihnp4, et. al}!watmath!wjafyfe >> wjafyfe@waterloo.csnet > >say what? I don't know any graduate schools teaching firearms safety, I >haven't been to graduate school, and I didn't see any other mention of >graduate schools in the rest of the discussion on: >the right to arm bears. >Therefore, I presume you've reconsidered coming from Canada to the US for >your graduate work? >In any case, I'm only representative of myself. > Sunny >-- >{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny The figures, as I recall, were about 50 deaths in Canada, 10,000 in the US. About 200 times more, for a country only 10 times larger. What you are trying to tell me is that these figures reflect the relative danger in living in the US (after all, you seem to think you *need* to own a hand gun, while I've never felt that threatened here). Do I want to spend 5 years living in the US if it's as bad as you make it seem? Just for the record, how does crime in general compare? Does the 20 times figure (one tenth of 200) still apply? (Might be interesting to compare these figures, particularly the armed vs unarmed crimes.) I thought the word "militia" was right next to "right to bear arms". Must mean something else to me. Clearly we have very opposite and strongly held viewpoints, so I'll be quiet now (there's no point in arguing -- it'll go nowhere). --Andy Fyfe ...!{decvax, allegra, ihnp4, et. al}!watmath!wjafyfe wjafyfe@waterloo.csnet