On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:43:00 -0200, nemesis wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:22:06 -0500, nemesis wrote:
>> 
>>> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>>>> Fact:  There are always going to be people who abuse freedom.
>>> it's just that there seem to have been a lot more of those lately. 
>>> I'm not aware of many shooting incidents in school in the 50's of
>>> something.
>>>  While surely there was a lot of shooting in the Old West or Chicago
>>>  in
>>> the 20's, this happened outside of schools.
>> 
>> I don't know that there is any more or less than there used to be, but
>> there certainly is more media coverage of these terrible events.
> 
> don't know or don't wanna know?  You sound overly optimist...

I said I don't know, and I meant I don't know.  If I'd meant I didn't 
want to know, I would have *said* that.

That said, the phrase is fairly common parlance (at least around here and 
where I'm from) - not really stating *knowledge* (one way or the other).

Jim

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