[lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so?

Well interesting, Paul and John, yes.

One point on John's side.  The number of guns in Switzerland has caused
concern and I believe still does *because of the number of suicides by gun*.

 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Stone 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 4:06 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so?


    The Michael Moore film BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE makes a different point. He 
wanders around Toronto, knocking on and OPENING front doors; the people he 
encounters are not terrified, apparently, of their neighbors. He makes several 
statistical points: Not just the over-all murder rate in large U.S. cities is 
higher than all of Canada's, but the "per capita" rate is also much higher. 
BUT: He points out that gun ownership in Canada is actually HIGHER per capita 
than in the U.S. For Moore, it must be something other than just the existence 
of guns that causes the difference; it's something deeper in the way U.S. 
citizens think.

  Yes... it's true that the "fear" factor is high and I watched BFC too. But, 
it's not 'guns', it's HAND guns. It's keeping them on your person and it's the 
willingness to use them and have them ready. Perhaps the "per capita" gun 
ownership is higher in Canada, but a whole lotta people have rifles and there 
are also a lot of people who collect guns and really do only ever consider them 
tools for target practice.

  I don't know ANYONE who owns a hand gun 'for protection'. In the usa, a whole 
lot of 'regular' folk have guns specifically and ONLY for protection. I'd love 
to know who you are protecting yourself from. Why do you feel a need for such 
protection? 

  paul

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  Paul Stone
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  Kingsville, ON, Canada 



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