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To: Cogito who wrote (154162)	1/12/2011 6:34:04 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541889

End-of-Life planning and providing drugs so Seniors can commit suicide are two completely different things. You have to provide the drugs in order to do it - but the scary part used in the debate is whether (the government) would use it to control costs. Just like Planned Parenthood is not really about planning to be parents.

To: Cogito who wrote (154162)	1/12/2011 9:42:56 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541889

His data appears to be wrong- per his own link. You have to read to the bottom of the page to find the "meat": 1. It appears that using officer hit ratio data from metropolitan law enforcement agencies has skewed our expectations. Individual hit ratios may be substantially higher than previously thought. Since bunch-shooting data was seldom (if ever) segregated from other officer hit ratios, we might surmise that much of the historical metro police shooting data has been misleading. Shootings involving singular officers appear to have hit ratios approaching (if not exceeding) 50%. 2. Mistake-of-Fact shootings remain a troublesome issue, representing 18-33% of police shootings. 3. Bunch-shootings seem to increase the number of rounds fired per officer by at least 45%, and reduce per officer hit ratios by as much as 82%.