A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Weiser nit-picks:
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The hilarious thing is we ARE safer from guns.

"Safer" /= "safe."
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NOBODY is absolutely SAFE. Safer trumps less safe. Particularly when we
look at relative magnitudes. Canadians are MUCH safer from guns than
Americans.

But becoming less and less safe every day, as are Britons and Australians.
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