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CAlling your attention to it?
Um, you've been doing it for decades and decades.
I recal a poster from the late 70's, early 80's. It was part off an American 
awareness campaign.
They listed about 100 countries in the world, beside each country was the 
number of deaths per year by handgun.
Starting with 1, then 2, then 8, then 10, until you got to the second last 
country and it was high, like hundreds, you start to get the idea some 
places are violent. LAst was the USA with over 12,000 deaths by hand guns. 
Admittingly the murder rate has dropped, especally in states like New York, 
so I think it's down to 10,000 or so. But all the other countries combined 
didn't even add up to 1/3.

This is an American problem, and it is supported by their culture. From 
their beginnings a violent revolution, to the wild west, the gun has always 
been a solution, a problem solver that Americans are quick to use, because 
of their history, heritage and culture. After all American's are people too.

You want to know why they kill at a rate way out of proportion to the rest 
of the world, then you need to look at what makes American's different - 
their history, heritage and culture. So it is in there that the answer can 
be found. And if you notice, guns play a dramatic role in American History, 
Heritage and culture. Thus more American's just solve problems with a loaded 
gun. And those things kill people.

A countr like Canada does not have violence in it's history. Well yes, but 
that is either French or Bristish history, not Cnadian. We became a country 
by negotiation and discussion. We didn't take up guns and kill our masters. 
American's did. We didn't expand our country by violent warring. The 
American's did. And we don't make movies that glorify killing, but the 
American's do. Yes, we watch their movies, but we filter it through the 
Candian experience. The American's through the American experience. ANd the 
American experience embracess guns, and killing to solve conflicts, issues 
and problems. That is not the Canadian experience.


Oh, and Fabrikant, you are a convicted murderer, so your opinion is 
incarcerated and does not count for anything.
Actually there s a court order to that effect. Something about 25 years with 
no parrole.....

"Dave Moorman" <none@none.com> wrote in message 
news:none-224351.23104819112005@news.giganews.com...
> In article <1132410245.875246.233750@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
> "Fabrikant" <benny_patrick7@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, Moore, I can give you an even more startling example: in
>> Switzerland every citizen by law is obliged to have a firearm in his
>> house, nevertheless, they kill each other much less than even Canadians
>> do.  WHY?
>>
>> Fabrikant
>
> Well, the point of the film is that no one has figured out why we kill
> each other with guns at such a high rate.  What Michael Moore did was to
> call attention to it in an interesting and sometimes humorous way.
> That's a step in the right direction.
>
> Dave