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To: aladin who wrote (116285)	10/6/2003 4:58:04 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I wouldn't call it being ..."pushed in the opposite direction intended." for 2 reasons: 1) I'm open minded enough to be influenced by rational arguments. 2) Bowling For Columbine brought a far more subtle argument forward, that Americans, in part, have been made to fear their own multi ethnic culture. Why is it that Canada with a 13% non-white population(the race argument for gun related murders) and 7.000.000 guns distributed among 10,000,000 families(the anti-NRA argument) has a gun related murder rate far, far less than that in the US? The comments by Canadians were interesting, we don't lock our doors. When asked why one person said that by locking one's door one locks oneself in(not that one locks the bad guys out). Or that Germany with its recent violent past(the violent American society argument) has such a low gun related murder rate? Or Britain with its violent and dominating past(the violent American society argument again) also has a low murder rate? I like guns too, but left mine in the States. No reason to have them in Denmark as I quit hunting several years before leaving the States. No, I don't buy the NRA's argument about gun possession but that argument is not relevant since there are other countries with guns but low gun related murders. I believe that the NRA has missed an opportunity to influence American public opinion by not coming out squarely against the scarifying of the US population(by politicians and the media) to such an extent that those with guns are on a hair trigger.