Once again music gets the blame

[Cpt Blue Skin]

Just correlate the stats regarding child vaccination programs vs gun
problems over the past thirty years in any country and you will see an
interesting trend.
The Japanese have banned many vaccination programmes aimed at infants
because they are both seeing the adverse affects and their politicians seem
to be above the blatant bribery and corruption that is so obvious in our
countries.  (Oz/US/uk)
Supposedly we are living in an age where our medical institutions are at
their peak - where the kids are sposed to be protected by vacine programs
but the kids are sicker than they have been for a long time.


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Cpt Blue Skin

----- Original Message -----
From: Ted Jackson <tojackso at LIBRARY.SYR.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: Once again music gets the blame


> On 9 Jan 2003 at 1:34, Cpt Blue Skin wrote:
>
> > Spend some time in LA and just watch the news reports.  I would
> > believe that football kills more students in the us than guns - but
> > are those stats regarding student gunshot deaths vs football deaths?
> > I would imagine so.
>
> I think Mike was trying to say that more US kids die AT SCHOOL from sports
injuries
> than being shot.  The Columbine-type incidents get so much publicity that
people
> think it's a daily occurrence...
>
> The stats that I have seen show that there are an
> > alarming number of gunshot fatalaties in the US.
>
> Murder is the leading cause of death for teenage African American males in
the
> US...
>
>  But then guns are
> > glorified over there as well. How many movies have you seen where the
> > "good guy" has gotten his revenge by scoring a weapon and blowing away
> > the "bad guys."
> >
> > I think there should be better education, starting in school,
> > regarding firearms.  The laws regarding purchasing firearms should be
> > strict - background checks - waiting periods - etc and that the police
> > should not have to waste their resources chasing pot smokers when they
> > could be directing that energy towards eradicating - or working
> > towards eradicating black market weapons trade/sales etc.
> >
> That's the root of the problem.  See, a supposed gun dealer can buy a
hundred
> assault rifles, and put them in storage.  He can then arrange to have them
'stolen' by
> an associate, and duly report the theft to the authorities, so he's in the
clear.  His
> buddy trucks the weapons to the opposite coast, and sells them for a huge
markup.
> And the original 'dealer' can even claim the loss on his insurance [of
course his
> policy will get dropped, but then he'll have a bunch of money from the
illegal sale
> and the insurance claim!]  And he can still buy a bunch more guns!
>
> One answer in the US is restricting the number of weapons an individual
can buy,
> and mainly, by making it harder to get a firearms dealership license.  But
it wouldn't
> stop weapons crime either.  The larger causes are sociological, I think,
as Canada
> has lots of guns and a lot less crime than the US...
>
> theo