Invisible wrote:

> clipka wrote:
> 
>> Of course that's doing it wrong: You have to /first/ establish a
>> comparatively safe society, by addressing crime arising out of habit or
>> dire need (the former by force and punishment, the latter by trying to
>> improve the economic situation), and /then/ take away privately owned
>> guns to reduce the acts (or the lethality thereof) of spontaneous "blown
>> fuse" type violence (or accidents).
> 
> Sounds about right.

I agree.
 
>> North America, OTOH, /is/ a somewhat tame society by now.
> 
> Um... Is this the same North America where seemingly even the police are
> not above harassing people who deny the Christian faith?
> 
> For example, the story about the little girl who wouldn't say the Lord's
> Prayer in class, and got expelled from school. Her dad said she
> shouldn't be forced to say the prayer, and soon the entire family found
> themselves being virtually driven out of the town. And then it ended up
> being a court case, I forget why...
> 
> Sounds like Britain in the Dark Ages to me. :-P

Tee hee hee! Naw... they didn't burn the child and her family at the stake
for apostasy. But stay tuned, who knows what may come out of the Deep
South...?
-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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