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To: puborectalis who wrote (663784)	7/24/2012 10:45:31 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574376

how many blacks in Japan ? how many Hispanics ? probably deals with japan's culture and morals not guns. How many Fatherless house holds in Japan ? how many in the US ? and you are a doctor.lololol

To: puborectalis who wrote (663784)	7/24/2012 11:13:48 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574376

In 2008, ~12,000 Americans Were Killed With Guns. Guess How Many Were Killed In Japan? 11 yeah.....so what .......in 2009.... 33,000 Japanese killed themselves... ...one every 15 minutes.............at about 3 times the rate in the US ........and without the guns.......look how clever these hara-kiri heroes are in their endeavor. Those Japs are just so civilized compared to us Americans. Common methods of suicide are jumping in front of trains, leaping off high places, hanging, or overdosing on medication. [1] Rail companies will charge the families of those who commit suicide a fee depending on the severity of disrupted traffic. [18] A newer method, gaining in popularity partly due to publicity from Internet suicide websites, [2] is to use household products to make the poisonous gas hydrogen sulfide. In 2007, only 29 suicides used this gas, but in a span from January to September 2008, 867 suicides resulted from gas poisoning. [19] en.wikipedia.org

To: puborectalis who wrote (663784)	7/25/2012 1:28:17 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 1574376

In 2008, ~12,000 Americans Were Killed With Guns. Guess How Many Were Killed In Japan? 11 The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people like pubo are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them. As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking -- or lack of thinking. New York's Mayor Bloomberg and CNN's Piers Morgan were on the air within hours of the shooting, pushing the case for gun control laws. You might never know, from what they and other gun control advocates have said, that there is a mountain of evidence that gun control laws not only fail to control guns but are often counterproductive. However, for those other people who still think facts matter, it is worth presenting some of those facts. Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. Britain is a country with stronger gun control laws than the United States, and lower murder rates. But Mexico, Russia and Brazil are also countries with stronger gun control laws than the United States -- and their murder rates are much higher than ours. Israel and Switzerland have even higher rates of gun ownership than the United States, and much lower murder rates than ours. Even the British example does not stand up very well under scrutiny. The murder rate in New York has been several times that in London for more than two centuries -- and, for most of that time, neither place had strong gun control laws. New York had strong gun control laws years before London did, but New York still had several times the murder rate of London. It was in the later decades of the 20th century that the British government clamped down with severe gun control laws, disarming virtually the entire law-abiding citizenry. Gun crimes, including murder, rose as the public was disarmed. Meanwhile, murder rates in the United States declined during the same years when murder rates in Britain were rising, which were also years when Americans were buying millions more guns per year. The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them. Any discussion of facts is futile when directed at such people. All anyone can do is warn others about the propaganda. gopusa.com