At 4:34 PM +0000 3/19/01, Ken Brown wrote:
Of course - that's the point. Brits are no less violent than USAns, no less likely to be criminal, no more polite or neighbourly (in fact rather less). But we are *far* less likely to be killed or seriously injured by our neighbours, or by the State. And part of the reason for that is that "normal" people don't have guns in Britain.
Ken (still really not wanting to restart the Great Permanent Floating Internet Gun Rant)
Then don't. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns