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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: jlallen who wrote (1210)	7/21/1999 12:58:00 PM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) of 769667

JLA, the "media"-sword cuts at both edges... There have even been cases of a policeman under fire being rescued by a private citizen with a gun. One year, more criminals were reported killed by private citizens than by the police. But it wasn't reported very widely. This isn't really good news, although the author obviously places it like "good news anti-gun-control". If you assume that the lethality rate of private citizens' and police officers' in dangerous situations were the same, or very similar, the news could go untouched. But what if the police officers, more used to and experienced in coping with wild-looking youths, minor criminals, just any generic type of potentially dangerous people and situtations simply controlled their trigger better while still being able to break the danger of the situation ? And if the so-defined lethality rate was ten times less for policemen than for ordinary citizens (I think this might well be), then the way of reporting the fact was actually concealing the truth. I am discussing here only (strict sense of the word!) on the use of information in media, not over gun control. Regards MNI.

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