Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (142350)	2/4/2002 5:23:51 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1578505

tim, yes, we are all glad of that wehn we go to the USA. Most people are rational, for which I am grateful. Bill

To: TimF who wrote (142350)	2/5/2002 1:00:23 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578505

Fact Database Between 1993 and 1998, gun homicides of young people (ages 24 and under) decreased 41%, from 11,657 to 6,863. However, youth gun homicides remain a significant problem, accounting for 57% of all gun homicides in 1998. Source: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. (2000) Crime Gun Trace Reports, 1999. Related Facts The firearm homicide rate for teenagers ages 15-19 increased by 61% in the ten-year period from 1979 to 1989. Source: Fingerhut, L. et al. (1992) Firearm and nonfirearm homicide among persons 15 through 19 years of age: Differences by level of urbanization, United States, 1979 through 1989. JAMA. 267(22), 3048-53. In a ten-year period between 1984 and 1993, the firearm homicide rate for youth ages 15 to 24 increased 158%. In contrast, during this same time period the homicide rate for people age 24 and older declined by 19%. Source: Snyder, H. (1998) Juvenile Arrests 1997 Bulletin. Washington, DC, OJJDP. In 1998, 3792 children age 19 and younger were killed with guns in the U.S. This equals just over 10 children every day. Source: Murphy S.L. (2000) Deaths: Final data for 1998. National Vital Statistics Reports. 48(11). Of all homicides in 1997, 68% were committed with firearms. Source: Murphy S.L. (1999) Deaths: Final data for 1997. National Vital Statistics Reports. 47(19). Of handgun homicides in 1997, only 2.3% were classified as justifiable homicides by civilians. And for each justifiable homicide, there were 139 lives ended by murder, suicide and unintentional shootings. Source: Deaths: Final Data for 1997. (1999) National Vital Statistics Report. 47(19) and the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Report. 1997.

To: TimF who wrote (142350)	2/5/2002 1:07:54 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578505

jointogether.org ____________________________________________________________ The Second Amendment in Law and History The articles in this collection support an interpretation of the Second Amendment as a collective rather than an individual right--the right of the states to maintain an armed militia. They draw on documents from the time of the amendment's ratification, relevant historical events in Britain and the United States, and legal analysis. The articles discuss state/colonial gun control already in place in the 18th century, the contrast between the militia then and today's National Guard, and what the authors believe are the fallacies of the argument that the amendment protects an individual right to own firearms. The contributors, including well-known scholars, are all academics, mostly in law but also in political science and history. (192 pp. Available in bookstores.) Publication date: November 2001