Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] OT Gun Violence
From: jon.streeter at cox.net (jon.streeter)
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:50:58 -0800

America's violent crime rate has been declining for at least twenty years.  
It has risen in England.  Home invasions increased nearly 20% in Australia 
after a massive gun confiscation which followed a tragic mass shooting.

Florida changed laws over twenty years ago to permit concealed carry, and 
their violent crime rate declined while it was rising in the rest of the 
nation.

Why are none of you lamenting the rise in crime where guns have been taken 
away?  Why are you not marching in the streets about government democide 
following gun control schemes?  

Movies as a cause of violence is a tenuous connection.  People go to movies 
for entertainment, not to see real violence.  Really, I assure you audiences 
can make that distinction.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone

----- Reply message -----
From: "EPL" <manolito at videotron.ca>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] OT Gun Violence
Date: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 6:44 am


A nation that celebrates as a "right" the ownership and use of firearms (in
most other civilized states this is a "wrong") while also pumping out
countless television programs and cinema films that celebrate slaughter by
gun (and even elects politicians who play gun-wielding slaughterers to its
highest offices) will continue to see death orgies like yesterday's.

>From Wounded Knee to My Lai, from John Wayne to Tarantino to Schwarzenegger,
America loves its gun-toting killers. The medium is the message.

Are any of you surprised? Methinks you protest too much.

Emanuel


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