On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:35:20PM -0500, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > On Friday 14 November 2003 1:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On the upside, those with the brains to move > > > themselves up on the socioeconomic ladder will do quite well. > > > > I don't think they will do so well with the number of guns you have in the > > streets, bullets don't distinguish Ph degrees. > > PhDs and brains don't go hand-in-hand; part of being smart is knowing > how to work within whatever cultural limitations you must; in the case > of firearm-owning Americans, you just need to be smart enough not to not > get on their bad side. Social engineering at its most useful.
There are roughly 40M handguns in this country, and quite a number of states have "right to carry concealed handgun" laws. If the vast majority of people had such a low level of self-control, we should see, for example, multiple Columbines[1] on a daily basis. Since we don't, what conclusion can we draw from this? [1] For those (particularly non-US citizens) who don't know, back in the mid-1990s, 2 white teenagers from a affluent family walked into their High School armed with rifles and pistols. They proceed- ed to blow away those they didn't like, whatever the reason. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "The UN couldn't break up a cookie fight in a Brownie meeting." Larry Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
