Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 20:36:13 11/30/00
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On November 30, 2000 at 20:25:51, Michael Cummings wrote: >On November 30, 2000 at 13:59:01, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >The assults you mention are usually teenage gangs (none of which carry guns) >since we have banned then for all but people who use them for work, like police >and security gaurds (some) Just because they're not supposed to have guns doesn't mean they don't have them anyway. >Murders are usually gang, drug, or family related, it is very rare that someone >gets blown away for walking down the street. That's probably a very rare thing everywhere, including in the US. >When you look at the size of Sydney and Melbourne, which is not in New south >wales but Victoria which is another state, and compare that to one of your 50 or >so states, it is looking pretty bad. > >The last time we had things like a drive by shooting was a very long time ago, >and that was because some adult drug ring tried to blow away another. I think most drive-by shootings here are probably drug-related also. >I was not stereo typing anything, simply commenting on what the US new wires >tell us. In the past years murders have been up, simply cause of police >crackdown on illegal drugs and the like, we force them out and they try to set >up shop in other areas so they kill whoever is in charge of the area to try and >take over. We have sicko dads who take their kids and kills them because the >wife want a divorce. > >But one is more likely to die in the US from a bullet, rather than in Australia. >How many murders are caused by shootings in the US to how many in Australia. >Some food for thought
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