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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (134738)	4/2/2001 4:54:42 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) of 769667

Here is another piece from the aforementioned article. But much of the controversy over how guns are used overlooks an even more basic issue. And that is that you cannot credit a disease for its own partial cure. Even if Kleck could prove that guns were used in 100 million cases of self-defense each year, that still would not prove that guns have social utility, as long as they still drive up the murder rate. Suppose that our nation, in the name of personal security, started selling everyone vials of the Ebola virus, the horrific and contagious plague that causes agonizing and certain death in a matter of days. A few unbalanced criminals may use this virus to create plagues that kill 20,000 people a year before containment. But that's no problem: supporters have 100 million proven cases, with rock solid documentation, that the counter-threat of Ebola poisoning stopped criminals from further such murder. Needless to say, we would certainly find it odd if a "National Ebola Association" were to argue that Ebola vials provide social utility and greater security based on these numbers. Any rational society would simply choose not to hand out vials of Ebola to its population in the first place.

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