Finland - USA 2-0

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 13:19:22 GMT, Fred J. McCall wrote:

"Yama" wrote:

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:"WaltBJ" wrote in message
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: "Nils Rostedt" wrote in message
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: "WaltBJ" wrote in message
: Not correct.
: http://www.who.int/mental_health/pre...iciderates/en/
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: I see. Only twice the rate in the USA.
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:On a plus side, odds of getting gunned down are considerably smaller...

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!!!!!!!

Al Minyard

"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)

Alan Minyard wrote in message . ..
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 13:19:22 GMT, Fred J. McCall wrote:

"Yama" wrote:

:
:"WaltBJ" wrote in message
.com...
: "Nils Rostedt" wrote in message
...
: "WaltBJ" wrote in message
: Not correct.
: http://www.who.int/mental_health/pre...iciderates/en/
:
: I see. Only twice the rate in the USA.
:
:On a plus side, odds of getting gunned down are considerably smaller...

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!!!!!!!


If you ever tried shooting back after you've been shot dead, you'd
notice that it isn't that easy.

(Marcus Andersson) wrote in
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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!!!!!!!


If you ever tried shooting back after you've been shot dead, you'd
notice that it isn't that easy.

In war-time you would shoot first and ask later if your're not
100% certain.

For some, though, the issue is blurred.


Regards...

In message , Fred J. McCall
writes
"Yama" wrote:
:On a plus side, odds of getting gunned down are considerably smaller...

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.

But then starting assumptions are one of the reasons for the claim
"lies, damn lies, and statistics".

We're regularly told how we're at risk of violent death, hateful
enslavement, or both because we have fewer firearms than the US. The
point that my neighbourhood's had one armed robbery in five years (and
that with a toy gun... the cashier laughed and the would-be robber fled)
is by the bye. Apparently we're doomed to imminent death by a lack of
handguns.

Reality is less straightforward. We're not all going to die for a lack
of weapons and the US is not going to self-destruct for a surplus of
domestic firearms.



--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk

In article ,
"Yama" wrote:

"WaltBJ" wrote in message
om...
"Nils Rostedt" wrote in message
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"WaltBJ" wrote in message
Not correct.
http://www.who.int/mental_health/pre...iciderates/en/

I see. Only twice the rate in the USA.

On a plus side, odds of getting gunned down are considerably smaller...

Dead is dead, Bud. In the end, it doesn't matter much the means.