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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "GaryWillis"  wrote in message   
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   > "Scout"  wrote in message news:ko53jh$u2$1@dont-email.me...   
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   > "GaryWillis"  wrote in message   
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   >> "keithr"  wrote in message news:b0m5olFeckkU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >> On 29/05/2013 4:03 AM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >>> keithr  wrote in news:b0jdaqFq2edU1   
   >>> @mid.individual.net:   
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   >>>> On 26/05/2013 1:55 AM, Bert wrote:   
   >>>>> In news:b08t83FghsiU1@mid.individual.net keithr    
   >>>>> wrote:   
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   >>>>>> The danger is overstated by most Americans, while in the States I was   
   >>>>>> warned several times that places the I was planning to go to were   
   >>>>>> dangerous, but in the event, the places proved to be perfectly safe.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Can I take it that you don't wear a seat belt when driving and have no   
   >>>>> smoke detectors or fire extinguishers in your home?   
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   >>>>> Since you haven't been killed in an car accident or house fire, these   
   >>>>> dangers are obviously overstated, and they're prefectly safe.   
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   >>>> The chances of being hit by an incompetent driver or a frying pan   
   >>>> catching fire are much higher than being attacked. I have been involved   
   >>>> in accidents when some-one else screwed up, but so far, in a long life,   
   >>>> I have yet to be attacked or have the kitchen catch fire.   
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   >>> I carry a gun for one reason and one reason only.  If a situation arises   
   >>> (and I have been there, done that) I have at least one option you do   
   >>> not.   
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   >> It is a situation that is highly unlikely to happen to me so I don't feel   
   >> the need to protect myself against it by carrying a gun. You obviously   
   >> live in a far more violent society than me.   
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   >> ###### Yeah, RD. There's absolutely no crime where he lives.   
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   > There's a higher rate than is here.   
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   > http://www.wnd.com/2001/03/8340/   
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   > That can't be true, as that  12 year old report would show that "Keithr"   
   > was on Ether.   
      
   Well, I have a chart that runs to 2007   
      
   http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/violent%20crime.html   
      
   Shows violent crime generally increasing...   
      
   Maybe it's something harder than ether?   
      
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