Once again music gets the blame

[Cpt Blue Skin]

wicked - respeK!

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Cpt Blue Skin

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From: M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: Once again music gets the blame


> Cpt Blue Skin writes:
>
> > Alot of people think you get shot and the next day you have a bandage on
it
> > and you are fine.  Like - they can just shoot someone a little bit.
>
> I have to admit the opposite: I was quite surprised that shootings in
> the US are fatal less than 50% of the time. I was positively stunned
> when I read Lott and Kleck on defensive gun use and discovered that guns
> in defensive use in the US are fired less than 2% of the estimated 1.5
> million times they're used to prevent crime and hit someone less than
> half the times they're fired.
>
> Assuming that even half the time it's an innocent that's shot and
> killed, that's 1.5 million crimes stopped for innocent fatalities in
> less than a quarter of a percent of incidents.
>
> So while we're fed the story of the US being a more or less continuous
> armed shootout zone that would make the Lebanon seem like a library, the
> real story is of a kind of armed anti-crime spree without the bullets.
>
> To some extent Hollywood is more real than newspaper reporting.
>
> FoFP
>