Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 10/20/06, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2006, at 5:46 PM, B. D. Colen wrote: > > The London Times a Murdoch paper. I didn't know that. > Are you sure? I didn't write the editorial, I just commented on it. > > Crime RATES, of course, are independent of the number of people > involved. Are you suggesting that guns prevent crime in rural areas > but not in cities? In Sweden and Israel, countries with universal > military service, reservists keep assault rifles and machine guns in > their closets at home. I have not noticed that either country has a > pathological homicide problem. The culture is the problem, not the > quantity of guns. > The quoting is a bit unclear, so I don't know who made the statement about Sweden, but I think he made the traditional mistake of confusing Sweden with Switzerland. In Sweden we do NOT keep military weapons at home. But I remember seeing somwhere that Sweden has a very high number of guns per capita, but it is only for hunting. /Anders