Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ian writes: <<Interesting. There are around 700 murders committed annually in the UK. A quick search of Google showed that in 2001 there were around 16000 murders in the US (FBI figures). The population of the US is approximately 4.5 larger than that of the UK. Are you seriously suggesting that the UK's murder rate is comparable to that of the US?>> Ian, It's known as literary license, Exaggeration, used to make a point. Like Leica fans swearing that the M7 is the best of all possible cameras because it loads through the base. You have isolated one line from a long paragraph detailing the rampant crime and hypocrisy about gun control in the UK. While the series was intended to be humerous, the implications of this passage were dead serious. And to not offend the squeamish, I omitted the section about Jill Dando being shot and killed in broad daylight on a London street. They never caught the killer, did they? Larry Z - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html