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To: combjelly who wrote (689768)	12/23/2012 2:58:08 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573062

>> When Reagan got shot. He was surrounded by heavily armed, well trained men who were on the alert for trouble. Didn't help him or the others, did it? There is a big difference between an event that lasted ten seconds and one that lasts ten or twenty minutes. In the Reagan case, they DID immediately subdue and capture the shooter. That's really a weak, absurd comparison.

To: combjelly who wrote (689768)	12/23/2012 7:15:57 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573062

Yeah. Like the fact that if you conceal carry, you are 4 to 5 times more likely to die from a gunshot wound... citizens with concealed carry permits are 4 to 5 times more likely to die from a gunshot wound?...........than non conceal carry citizens........I like to see that link. .

To: combjelly who wrote (689768)	12/23/2012 7:55:08 PM
From: d[-_-]b	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1573062

Your numbers are nonsense and not backed up by any serious study. What is supported is millions of uses or guns to prevent crime every year. Even the ultra liberal Brady bunch (the lowest number humanly possible) concluded it was in the hundreds of thousand per year - far greater than the number of shootings by bad guys. Why do we have 30% of schools with armed guards/security today and banks have armed guards not to mention armed air marshals are you saying all these uses or arms for protection and as a deterrence are not working? You're are delusional - guns in the hands of good guys can and do stop bad guys everyday.

To: combjelly who wrote (689768)	12/24/2012 8:07:30 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573062

What Piers Morgan doesn’t want you to know about Britain and violent crime The Right Scoop on December 21st, 2012 from joseffy National Review posted this yesterday and this is perhaps why Piers Morgan gets all interrupty when someone tries to explain how bad violent crime is in Great Britain: According to the Mail, Britons suffer 1,158,957 violent crimes per year, which works out at 2,034 per 100,000 residents. By contrast the number in notoriously violent South Africa is 1,609 per 100,000. The U.S., meanwhile, has a rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, which is lower than France’s, at 504; Finland’s, at 738; Sweden’s, at 1123; and Canada’s at 935. As a result of both the different ways in which these statistics are collected and of varying definitions of “violent crime,” there will naturally be some discrepancies between countries. Enough to account for a 5:1 difference between Britain and the United States, though? I rather think not. And here’s a chart from that posting in the Daily Mail in 2009 which shows that the UK tops crime in Europe: See, we’re not even in the top 10, just as the article pointed out. Maybe someone should show Piers Morgan this chart and make him choke on that rubbish he is getting all self-righteous about.