Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information