Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: handgun control Message-ID: <240@talcott.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 18:48:32 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.240 Posted: Fri Jan 18 18:48:32 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 01:48:57 EST References: <407@whuxl.UUCP> <1173@ut-ngp.UUCP> <710@erix.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 27 > Many people in this debate have suggested that absence of gun control > in the US is not responsible for the number of killings in the US. In other > words, if people in the US didn't have guns there would be more murders > with knives, clubs etc. The implication of this is that the US culture > is more oriented to murders and violence than other Western countries. > > This is a generality which seems to me to be absurd. Could it be that > the iresposible few in the US are more iresponsible than the equivalent > in the Europe? If so why? > > Mike Williams Why? Because the U.S. is not Europe. Because the U.S. does not have a small, homogeneous population like your country does (relatively speaking, anyway). Actually, the most common crime is not murder or assault, but theft. And I think Sweden (you are in Sweden, aren't you? :-) has more of it than the U.S. Note: This posting does not imply that I am either for or against gun control. --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." - Foghorn Leghorn