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Apparently this is an emotional subject for you. So, snark on then.<br><br>> >> No there aren't. Washington DC has 400,000 people. Tucson AZ has 400,000<br>> >> people. Tucson AZ has, like, twenty, thirty murders a year. There is a<br>> >> thriving drug trade in both cities, a minority majority in both cities,<br>> >> and Tucson has also *huge* amounts of illegal humans coming through as<br>> >> well as guys who will come up the fifty miles from Mexico to steal cars<br>> >> to order.<br>> <br>> > I am not at all certain what your point is with this passage.<br>> <br>> I had thought that the high number of murders in Washington DC was well<br>> known. Apparently not. There were 181 in 2007: an improvement over the<br>> early 90's.<br><br>That would be highly, extraordinarily pertinent and a very intelligent point to make if I had made the claim that cities with gun control laws had no crime or murders.<br><br>Since I didn't, naturally I should have assumed that this was what you were getting at.<br><br>> Most of these murders were committed with firearms.<br><br>You mean when you make a law, that doesn't immediately alter the laws of nature to make that law impossible to violate?<br><br>I never, ever would have guessed. That must be part of the arcane mysteries that Bruno taught you.<br><br>> The question is, how can this be? Guns are illegal in DC. How can there be<br>> any crimes committed with guns at all if guns are illegal there?<br>> <br>> Please address this question.<br><br>See above. I can be as flippant and condescending as you. Or wait, maybe I can't. I haven't insinuated you're an uneducated mouth-breather for daring to semi-disagree with me yet. Or made you the straw man for all the beliefs I disagree with.<br><br>> >> > And personally I don't think it would<br>> >> be<br>> >> > unreasonable to accommodate both parties by limiting those who can<br>> >> carry<br>> >> > firearms in dense urban areas while leaving the rural areas alone.<br>> <br>> >> This would make sense if the murder rate in Tucson was higher than it is<br>> >> in DC.<br>> <br>> > Tucson and Washington DC have similar populations, but Tucson sprawls out<br>> > over three times the area of DC. Population density is kind of an<br>> > important part of the point I was making.<br>> <br>> So you think it is because people are all crowded together? I think it is<br>> because you have disarmed the honest ones.<br><br>I checked to see which people were honest when I personally went out on my magical faery dragon and disarmed them all.<br><br>> People in Switzerland are very heavily armed, and I believe that their<br>> cities are pretty densely populated. Hardly any crime there at all.<br><br>And the only difference between Switzerland and Washington DC is the existence of guns there, obviously.<br><br /><hr />HotmailŪ is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. <a href='http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009' target='_new'>Find out more.</a></body>
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