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To: Brumar89 who wrote (37111)	1/6/2013 12:10:28 PM
From: d[-_-]b	2 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

Seems odd that libtards rail about social and economic justice and level playing fields but when it comes to assaults by mismatched strong criminals against weaker victims they refuse to "level the playing field" by supporting the weak to use arms to defend themselves. They should naturally worship the words of Sam Colt - "god made man but Samuel Colt made them equal".

To: Brumar89 who wrote (37111)

1/6/2013 1:21:53 PM

From: koan

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I hate to do this to you, but that falls under the fallacy of "post hoc ergo proptor hoc.

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.... In the U.K., gun ownership is virtually banned. Even the police force in the U.K. is, for the most part, unarmed. Raw figures show that the UK has a lower homicide rate than the U.S., 1.2 per 100,000 of population in the U.K. versus 4.8 in the U.S. But when it comes to violent crime overall, the UK is a much greater hotbed than the U.S., with 2,034 violent criminal incidents in the U.K. per 100,000 of population versus 486 in the U.S. [ Get that? The US is LESS violent than the UK. ] An anecdote from a British police officer gives a chilling feel for the ramifications of a disarmed society - where the criminals are very often more powerful at the point of the crime than either the citizens or the police. This from the Police Inspector Blog: