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Subject: [Leica] OT Gun Violence Chicago=tightest gun laws=murder capital
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:22:34 -0800
References: <20121215225101.QORU2891.eastrmfepo101.cox.net@eastrmimpo109>

Of any major city thus far in 2012 with firearms...
On Dec 15, 2012, at 2:50 PM, jon.streeter wrote:

> 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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