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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Holland is especially safe if you happen to be an invading country. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] You know, I'm willing to listen to rasoned arguments from the other side, but so far all I've heard is badly-researched rhetoric by people who are far too emotional for their own good. You can have heart attacks that way. As a favorite joke recalls: There was a fundie minister whose wife looked over his sermons, making annotations where she felt he needed help. At a particular point, she wrote "weak argument. Shout loud." IN OTHER WORDS, YOUR ARGUMENT IS NOT BOLSTERED BY TYPING HALF OF IT IN CAPS! INSTEAD, IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A CRAZY PERSON! CALM THE HELL DOWN!!! UM: as I gather it from the Almanac and other sources: Total Homicides by firearms, all ages, all races: 14,037, or .00005% of the US population. Does not include the significantly smaller accident and suicide rates, nor shootings of criminals. They don't have statistics for crimes prevented vs. total crimes involving firearms. It'll probably take me a while to come up with the figures on that one. But if we believe that one life saved is enough to ban them, why can't we believe that one million crimes prevented is enough to keep them? What these people who get all their information from watching the news is: News has to SELL. BAD news sells better than good news, so that's mostly what you hear. They find a story, latch onto it, and pump, pump, PUMP it up. You only hear about tragedy because that's what SELLS. That's what they WANT you to hear, so that they can keep you glued to the TV, watching the commercials, buying the sponsor's products. You people really have no idea how easy it is to manipulate people by choosing what information to give and what to withhold. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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