Gene Kearns wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:02:39 -0700, jps penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|Countries that control guns do not have the murder rate we do in the
|US.

Oh..... BS.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4706

|Please don't suggest we ban screwdrivers. It's a specious
|argument put up for simpletons.

No.... it isn't. I've watched this same foolish argument in the
schools. Believing that it was all about "tools" and not *intent,* the
school systems banned "weapons." Now, that makes for some interesting
dancing around the facts when you consider shop classes and home ec.
classes.

Students so inclined, though, undaunted, used the most available
weapon at hand.... pens and pencils. Ban them too? Of course not,
that's silly, it isn't about *what* they used it was about their
*intent.*

Can you say, "Circular Logic, but we'd never admit it?"


In my county's schools you can't even have a PICTURE of a weapon. Our
kenpo karate logo has a sword. You get sent home for wearing a shirt
with the logo on it because of the sword.