Aw, come on, give us a break. But we do love our guns, it's true. Every incident has people convinced they need more guns, not fewer. I'll see if I can research it later and see if there are any statistics on school shootings world-wide. Regarding fast food, at some point we'll be too fat to shoot the guns. That's something to look forward to. -----Original Message----- >From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> >Sent: Apr 18, 2007 6:39 PM >To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Gun Control > >> I'm not sure, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the worst school >> shooting incident in history was in Germany, and they have very strict >> gun control laws. All countries have school shootings. I don't know >> if we have more or fewer. > >No. The US still holds the record. Robert Steinhäuser only killed 17. >It's true >that other countries have had students killed, although not all of the >killers were fellow-(or ex) students, and I doubt that there have been >such shootings in every country. We probably have the fast food >restaurant prize too. > >Robert Paul >reed.edu > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, >digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html