David G Fisher wrote:
>
> Quick stat: 14 children are gunned down every day in this country (compared
> to about 14 men, women, and children in Britain in an entire year), and yet
> we lecture others on how to be good parents.

The only fact in that statement is the word quick. That 14 a day number
was a gerrymandering of statistics which included drug dealers and
gangmembers killed in gunfights, and "children" up to age 21. If you
cut off the definition of children at 16, the number is under 100 per
year. More are killed by Bic lighters.

The second part is blatantly untrue also. Great Britain outlawed gun
ownership about five years ago, and gun crime has skyrocketed since.


Don McCorkle