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These are from a half written post which luckily survived in a draft. I'm just going to put these up now.
If this is true then recent statistics tell us quite a lot. For in 1980 the comparative figures for handgun deaths within a number of countries were as follows: Japan, 48; Great Britain, 8; Canada, 52; Israel, 58 Sweden, 21; West Germany, 42; United states, 10,728.
Even taking account of the population differences the conclusion is quite obvious: either the American male is in deperate need of psychosexual therapy. Or something is very, very wrong with US laws on gun control. The two women who left Vancouver for Seattle late that morning were counting on the latter conclusion as being the correct answer. At 4:20 that same afternnon they stopped at the Douglas Border Crossing to reenter Canada. As a matter of routine Canada Customs searches every fiftieth car. Theirs was number fifty. So that was how, both in the trunk and under the back seat, a rather surprised Customs Officer found fity-two loaded Smith and Wesson .38s purchased that day in Seattle.
As the slogan goes; You can't rape a .38.
This, too, from Headhunter
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"80 percent of success is just showing up" - Woody Allen
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Kissinger, Gorbachev, Zbignew Brzezinski, Bill Gates Senior were recently (a few months ago now) guests on Charlie Rose. The youngest of them is probably 80+.
If this is true then recent statistics tell us quite a lot. For in 1980 the comparative figures for handgun deaths within a number of countries were as follows: Japan, 48; Great Britain, 8; Canada, 52; Israel, 58 Sweden, 21; West Germany, 42; United states, 10,728.
Even taking account of the population differences the conclusion is quite obvious: either the American male is in deperate need of psychosexual therapy. Or something is very, very wrong with US laws on gun control. The two women who left Vancouver for Seattle late that morning were counting on the latter conclusion as being the correct answer. At 4:20 that same afternnon they stopped at the Douglas Border Crossing to reenter Canada. As a matter of routine Canada Customs searches every fiftieth car. Theirs was number fifty. So that was how, both in the trunk and under the back seat, a rather surprised Customs Officer found fity-two loaded Smith and Wesson .38s purchased that day in Seattle.
As the slogan goes; You can't rape a .38.
This, too, from Headhunter
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"80 percent of success is just showing up" - Woody Allen
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Kissinger, Gorbachev, Zbignew Brzezinski, Bill Gates Senior were recently (a few months ago now) guests on Charlie Rose. The youngest of them is probably 80+.