"Vito" wrote in message
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"Joe" wrote
"Donal" wrote
Each year, 28,000 people get killed by guns in the US. In a 20 year
period
that will be 560,000!

Where did you (Donal?) dream up that number? The FBI's Crime in the United
States estimated that 63% of the 15,980 US murders in 2001 were committed
with firearms.

I didn't use the word murder.

That's 10,067, less than half your dream estimate. And
before you say that 10,000 is still too many remember that our MDs'
"medical
misadventures" kill some 125,000 per year and like Saddam bury their
victims.

Are they terrorists or just grossly incompetent?

Do the victims care? Do their families?

Was Saddam a terrorist? Is there a difference between a tyrant and a
terrorist?


Another thot: every time I see a celebration in some "repressed
dictatorship" in the news I see poor enslaved citizens firing off their
fully automatic assault rifles into the air and wonder about why all of us
free peoples in the UK and America who are not allowed to possess such
weapons.

Perhaps you are misinterpreting what you are seeing on your TV screen.

It's quite possible that many of these "spontaneous" demonstrations are in
fact well organised. The people that you see firing the guns might not be
ordinary citizens at all. They might be part of the state apparatus - don't
you think?

Regards

Donal
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