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To: epicure who wrote (107753)	4/5/2009 10:36:17 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540955

They drown them in tubs too. And as for the defensive use thing, it's a bunch of anecdotal hooey for the most part. How quickly you dismiss millions of cases of defensive use as noted by a liberal Oxford Journal - yet choose to build a case of anecdotal evidence in your head. Did the knife scare the guy? Probably not- he just wanted an empty house to burgle. In England over half of all home invasions are while people are at home, because they know people are disarmed and it's been going up ever since they banned personal firearms. But that would get classified as a defensive use of a firearm if I had had one. Hooey. A knife is not a firearm and the police don't document crimes avoided. Psychological research shows that watching something happen lights up the same path as doing it- and most of us have watched thousands of gun murders on TV and in the movies. We've watched fewer kinds of other types of murders- so the pump is probably primed to encourage us to kill with guns. Another reason they are probably psychologically much easier to kill with. Fascinating - yet the murder rate in the USA has dropped for years during the advent of these violent games and ever more violent movies. Here's a couple fun video's for you: Criminals for gun control youtube.com Suzanna Gratia testimony youtube.com