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

[Sridhar Ayengar]

microcode at zoho.com wrote:
> If one kid gets shot it's already too much. But if one kid drowns in the
> bathtub, or gets hit by a car, or falls off a porch, or eats some household
> cleaner or batteries it's also too much. And all of those things happen many
> times more often, possibly magnitudes more often than accidental shootings
> happen.
>
> And very seldom do we ever hear about the amount of lives saved, since most
> of those events go unreported. And nobody really cares about that anyway.

But we also don't hear very much about how many children's lives are 
saved through the use of bathtubs or household cleaner or batteries, either.

Peace...  Sridhar