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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Buckwheat who wrote (182420)2/11/2004 7:08:10 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1577142
 
BW,

re: And I hate to think what would have happened in this country and abroad following 9/11 if we had a lessor person in office.

We do have a "lessor person" in office, and you can see what has happened.

re: And people kill people, not guns. People have been killing people long before guns were invented.

I'm against gun control, but I don't totally agree with your statement. Widespread gun ownership certainly adds to the death toll; I happen to think it's a price we have to pay for the freedom.

re: My point is that we kill a hell of a lot more people in this country every year than we do abroad.

Excuse me? You are comparing our overseas military with automatic weapons and "shock and awe" bombs to domestic crime figures? As if the two were generic death statistics? Are you saying it's OK to kill overseas civilians at the same rate as domestic violence? That's a creative argument.

re: And the 3000 US lives that she so easily discounts in this country is troubling.

Before you were arguing for generic death statistics, now you are arguing that some deaths are more significant than others. I guess your hierarchy of death significance is 1) Domestic death by foreign terrorist; 2) Domestic death by crime; 3) Foreign civilian death by US military. Is that accurate?

Thanks in advance for the clarification,

John
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