Kiwi Phil
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Re: Historical Facts about Gun Control
I am always a little sceptical of "statistics" as they are some times un balanced in the way they are presented.<br />We know a person who is a cities forensic scientist. They laughingly tell us their "tool cupboards", which hold the "things" people have injured or killed others with, are now full of knives, spades, pieces of timber, steel bars etc, and they see very few hand guns or rifles now-a-days. <br />Every few months we are presented through our National Broadcaster (ABC) with the figures on how many Americans are killed and injured with/by guns per year. They normally say something like, "and that is....per ... minutes".<br />It seems a pretty frightening figure, and on the surface you would think, "thank goodness I don't live there!!!!" But it is a statistic, and is probably not presented in a true context, like ...people per million" or something.<br />As I have said before, if you want a rifle in this country, no worries, you go fill in the forms and buy one. You just can't buy something like an AK47 (or semi or auto). So where is the problem.<br />Cheers<br />Phillip
I am always a little sceptical of "statistics" as they are some times un balanced in the way they are presented.<br />We know a person who is a cities forensic scientist. They laughingly tell us their "tool cupboards", which hold the "things" people have injured or killed others with, are now full of knives, spades, pieces of timber, steel bars etc, and they see very few hand guns or rifles now-a-days. <br />Every few months we are presented through our National Broadcaster (ABC) with the figures on how many Americans are killed and injured with/by guns per year. They normally say something like, "and that is....per ... minutes".<br />It seems a pretty frightening figure, and on the surface you would think, "thank goodness I don't live there!!!!" But it is a statistic, and is probably not presented in a true context, like ...people per million" or something.<br />As I have said before, if you want a rifle in this country, no worries, you go fill in the forms and buy one. You just can't buy something like an AK47 (or semi or auto). So where is the problem.<br />Cheers<br />Phillip