19th April 2007, 11:11 PM
That's all well and good, but to find out of any of that has any merit, let's collect statistics. I'm not even asking for anything major. Just a basic pruning of various car jackings, holdups, home invasions, and so on where the presence of a gun turned things around. I'd expect each case to have to decide that anyway as the courts just plain get involved whenever someone is shot by someone else. Oh, the threat of a gun would also be a deterrant, sans violence. At any rate, we can collect these statistics.
I'm merely saying we should simply place human lives in a numerical system to determine the worth of these two viewpoints that way. Seems fair to me.
I'm merely saying we should simply place human lives in a numerical system to determine the worth of these two viewpoints that way. Seems fair to me.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)