[geeks] [rescue] Guns - what are they good for? - was Re: TME and Apple II and other Drive emulator questions.

[Lionel Peterson]

> On May 14, 2014, at 8:54 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On 14/05/14 10:35 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>>> On 05/13/14 07:35 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
>>>> On 13/05/14 12:09 PM, Nick B wrote:
>>>> Man, as much as I want a 5000$ single family home, I want to not get
>>>> shot
>>>> more.
>>>> Nick
>>>
>>> I hear theys lotsa guns in Texas.
>>> --T
>>
>> And an armed society makes for a polite society.
>
> They say that, don't they.
>
> It also makes for a sky-high homicide rate, and a lot of dead kids and
toddlers for no particularly good reason.
>
> Plus, as someone who's lived in several countries with fewer than 300
million guns, I can tell you that, if anything, they are much more "polite"
than the USA. Not to mention safer.

Interestingly, the District of Columbia has the highest gun homicide rate
(circa 2010), roughly three times higher than the second highest state...

Guess how draconian DC gun laws are? Very draconian - a TV host was in danger
of going to jail for merely holding an empty  'hi-capacity' gun clip in his
hand in a DC TV studio... No gun, just the clip.

Gun-free zones are defense-free zones, and the crime statistics bear that out
in America.