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To: Slagle who wrote (17774)	4/26/2007 3:59:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218746

Interesting. I can imagine that if one doesn't actually get murdered, kidnapped, robbed or attacked, life in Colombia is quite pleasant as in most places. Around the world, people like their lives to be enjoyable and that doesn't usually include too much conflict and criminality. Is it as legal, or more so, to carry knives in the USA, as guns? Mqurice

To: Slagle who wrote (17774)	4/27/2007 7:10:13 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218746

Self-defense seems to be an American concept, one that has remained valid in rural areas. In American cities and in other countries, the attitude seems to be, guns kill people, so if you have a gun, you're a killer. Very false logic. Not likely to prevail in the US any time soon, due to geographical demographics. City people naturally have a different way of looking at the world than country people, but the way our republic is set up, the cities can't dominate the rest of the country. There is a lot of crime in the cities, which is the odd thing. But, as in your experience, muggers don't need guns to mug people. I was mugged a couple of times, always with someone wielding a knife, until I learned "street smarts", which is really one's best protection. In America, the great divide is between people who aren't looking for a hand-out, at worst a hand up, and people who have a sense of wounded entitlement.