On Jul 26, 12:04*pm, "graham" > wrote:
> "Pete C." > wrote in message
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> > sf wrote:
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> >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:25:49 -0700 (PDT), Robert Miles
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> >> > How many of the other 80% would have been hit by stray bullets,
> >> > possibly after they had gone through the original shooter?
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> >> > How many of the 20% would know when to stop shooting, rather than
> >> > starting to shoot at each other, and causing even more stray bullets?
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> >> Better watch out. *Logic is raising its ugly head and the gun nuts
> >> don't like it when that happens.
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> > Logic has nothing to do with any of the absurd babble coming from the
> > anti-gun crowd, it's all emotion based on lack of firearm knowledge.
> > It's rather akin to someone who has never even sat in an automobile
> > trying to comment on the operation of one.
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> If Americans accept ~20,000 gun deaths per annum as an acceptable price for
> their right to bear arms, who are we to judge?

Homicides are down to 11,500 a year, and most of those are by-product
of the illegal drug trade. I neither buy drugs nor sell them, nor do I
take them, so I don't feel responsible for drug industry deaths.