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Michael Romanos · 04-17-2007, 09:05 PM

No one is safe, no country is safe, but things can be made a lot safer and people with such anger would have some time to cool down, if the easy access for guns was ditched and the guns'r'us attitude was wiped off the map. A person these days can place bombs in his/her body and blow a whole lot of people up without the need for a gun, but this kind of action takes quite a bit of planning and it is very premeditated whereas grabbing a gun or an arsenal of guns in the USA can be achieved with a wink and a nod and without much thought. Of course some of the killers have planned events for a month but the majority I believe, have been a lot more to do with quick action.

Perspectives are not much good at this time of tragedy, but there is a mass murder of innocent victims of similar proportions to Virginia Tech happening every week or even less on average in Iraq. And to God, every human is valued exactly the same.

We have mentioned once before on Go Corgi, but it us worthwhile repeating that the gun lobby in the USA is the most powerful lobby group in that country. Here are two stats nI have heard from good sources - one of them is incorrect with regard to the USA: 13,000 people in the USA died from gunshot wounds in 2002. Most recently over a 12 month period, 30,000 Americans died from gunshot wounds in the USA yet the figues in the UK over the same period was 163. The population difference is around four times. Multiply 4 x 163 and you get 650. So 13,000 or 30,000as opposed to 650 And the UK aint no soft touch as a country either.

04-17-2007, 09:05 PM	#18 (permalink)
Michael Romanos Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Silverstream (near Wellington, the capital of NZ) Posts: 5,188	No one is safe, no country is safe, but things can be made a lot safer and people with such anger would have some time to cool down, if the easy access for guns was ditched and the guns'r'us attitude was wiped off the map. A person these days can place bombs in his/her body and blow a whole lot of people up without the need for a gun, but this kind of action takes quite a bit of planning and it is very premeditated whereas grabbing a gun or an arsenal of guns in the USA can be achieved with a wink and a nod and without much thought. Of course some of the killers have planned events for a month but the majority I believe, have been a lot more to do with quick action. Perspectives are not much good at this time of tragedy, but there is a mass murder of innocent victims of similar proportions to Virginia Tech happening every week or even less on average in Iraq. And to God, every human is valued exactly the same. We have mentioned once before on Go Corgi, but it us worthwhile repeating that the gun lobby in the USA is the most powerful lobby group in that country. Here are two stats nI have heard from good sources - one of them is incorrect with regard to the USA: 13,000 people in the USA died from gunshot wounds in 2002. Most recently over a 12 month period, 30,000 Americans died from gunshot wounds in the USA yet the figues in the UK over the same period was 163. The population difference is around four times. Multiply 4 x 163 and you get 650. So 13,000 or 30,000as opposed to 650 And the UK aint no soft touch as a country either. Last edited by Michael Romanos; 04-19-2007 at 08:31 PM.