On Jul 18, 12:17*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> On 18/07/2011 2:33 PM, blake murphy wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:16:11 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>
> >> Nad R wrote:
>
> >>> Crime is getting so high in this country
>
> >> Crime increases in areas with "gun control" and decreases in areas that
> >> support gun rights. Look it up on the FBI's site yourself.
>
> > if it's so cut and dried, provide the cite. *prove us wrong.
>
> But don't even think of comparing it to Canada where you now need a
> licence to get a gun (which involves safety training and a police record
> search) and where you can not shoot people. Guns and ammunition *have to
> be be safely stored.

You also need your wife's permission.


> You can use deadly force if you life is truly
> threatened, but if you have time to go an unlock the gun and load it,
> your life is not in that much danger. Yet, our homicide rate is much
> much lower than in the US. * Sure sure.... US murder rates are highest
> in ghettos. Ours are either committed by youth gangs in the major cities
> or by natives in the north

When I looked it up a decade ago, a young Mexican man was far more
likely to be killed in gunfree Mexico than in California.