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To: thames_sider who wrote (9417)	1/22/2006 10:09:09 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 541957

In the US I believe you are quite likely to be killed by a family member who has a gun (for gun related deaths)- and of course guns feature big in suicides. It's always nice, when mom and dad are arguing, to know there is a gun in the house, and dad (or mom) can blow the other's head off when it all just gets too intense. People get angry, and when they have access to weapons they tend to use them. In the UK I believe domestic disputes frequently end in stabbings. I think I read an interesting proposal in the UK to make knives shorter- since for cooking purposes the long cutting knives are not necessary, and emergency doctors thought that shorter blades would do less damage. You can see how angry people get just on SI, at people they don't even know. People get much angrier at the people close to them- and some people seem to have very little ability to control their anger. Unfortunately stringent gun control just won't work with our constitution- and I keep hoping there is a Darwinian angle to the people who blow their family members away, but there probably isn't. I will keep hoping there is, though. It makes the waste of human life a little less painful.

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