Re: Condolences to VA Tech

On Apr 17, 6:10 am, Ye Old One <use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:01:16 GMT, Klaus <khelln...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:





Ye Old One wrote:
On 16 Apr 2007 10:49:04 -0700, "chris.linthomp...@xxxxxxxxx"
<chris.linthomp...@xxxxxxxxx> enriched this group when s/he wrote:

If anyone reading talk.origins is connected to Virginia Tech, you have
my deepest sympathies. What a terrible thing to happen.

Chris

Indeed. Watching it on Sky News as I type.

It really is time to call a halt to guns in the USA.

No, we need a halt to criminals. If there were law abiding citizens with
guns in the area, he would have killed far fewer people.

Total rubbish.

Klaus

How many more people have to die?

The first steps should be to ban handguns except for licenced shooting
clubs.

Next all assult rifels and the like.

I'm not sure what an "assult rifel" is, but if it means the same thing
as the brain-dead term "assault rifle" then it's an indication that
you have no idea what you're talking about.

Remove guns from most police offices.

Good. I'd hate for the police to be able to subdue criminals.

Then finally ban guns altogether.

This from the country that is trying to ban private ownership of
kitchen knives.

Tell us...what is the per-capita homicide rate in Switzerland, with
it's very high rate of private gun ownership? Compare that with the
homicide rate in the U.K., then report back to us.

.

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