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On 2008-02-16, Kurt Busiek <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2008-02-16 10:02:54 -0800, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
said:
>
>> <Willie.Mookie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Matthias Warkus <War...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> Note this has been said about the last two generations already.
>>>> "Generation X" came out in 1989, after all.
>>
>>> The shooter was of those generations.
>>
>> The only noteworthy thing about this latest shooting is how much news
>> coverage it and similar shootings get. About the same number of
>> Americans are killed by cars in the average *hour*, and nobody carries
>> on about that. Or about people who drown in their bathtubs, or die
>> in chainsaw accidents, or are electrocuted when changing a lightbulb.
>> But whenever some homicidal nut acts out with a firearm, suddenly
>> Something Must Be Done.
>
> Clearly, we should rank deliberate mass murder alongside ***ulative
> accidental death groupings.
In terms of public policy decisions and risk management? Well, yes.
> Highway fatalities as the result of multiple accidents are the same
> thing as one guy with guns setting out to kill people.
No, they're not the same thing, but dead is dead.
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Aaron Denney
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