"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 13:19:22 GMT, Fred J. McCall
wrote:
Well, odds of getting 'gunned down' here aren't significantly higher
than they are in Britain, if one starts off with the assumption that
one isn't a gang banger. Stay out of really bad neighborhoods and
avoid egregiously stupid behaviour like trying to frighten and
ignoring the warnings of armed people in their own homes and your odds
are much greater of slipping and falling to death in the bathtub than
they are of being 'gunned down'.

Not to mention the fact that I can, and would, shoot back!!!!!!!

But we don't have to (though we certainly could...lotsa guns in Finland)