Re: AUT: Negri and Charleton Heston?

[Thiago Oppermann <difference_3ngine@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/11/2004 5:44 AM, "chris wright" <cwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Actually, Canadians own way more guns per capita and do not have these
> problems.  Clearly, being armed is not the issue and frankly fear of gun
> ownership is liberal tripe.

This is a very American attitude. It's is so fetishistic it's not funny - as
if gun ownership (or guns) coud be separated from the nefarious social
context that goes with them. Suddenly, Chris, you've started talking about
property relations without, erm, dealing with the social relations encoded
in these.

Canadians mostly don't own guns for defense. The per capita rate for the
whole country, I think, is about the same as the US. It much more heavily
geographically skewed than in the US. The high rates people talk about are
mostly in sparsely populated regions where most guns are owned for hunting.
The guns in question are mostly rifles, there is nothing like the mountains
of handguns you find in the US. There are 63 times more handguns in the US
than canada. And even that doesn't stop tons of people dying from gunshot
wounds in canada. In fact, the Northwestern territories have a rate of gun
death far higher than the US.

http://www.guncontrol.ca/Content/TheCaseForGunControl.html


Thiago



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