Re: Not always joking, it seems

"John Schilling" <schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:54:26 GMT, "Karl Johanson" 
> <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>"David Friedman" <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>> In article <cr3hr3l91ol10potv5ci66t9jlgeo5i3fe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> David Johnston <david@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:50:44 -0800, David Friedman
>>>> <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>>> >In article <GHZtj.8806$XI.5656@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>> > Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>>> >> How many countries do you know of where "a large fraction of the
>>>> >> population *goes armed*?"
>
>>>> >It doesn't require a country. It's sufficient to have a town, or a
>>>> >place, or a profession--anything that results in a large fraction 
>>>> >of
>>>> >the people in a small area being armed.
>
>>>> >The most obvious examples are military. Not all militaries are 
>>>> >well
>>>> >trained, so if the scenario described is a moderately likely 
>>>> >result
>>>> >of a crowd of people who are armed and don't have much training in 
>>>> >the
>>>> >use of weapons, it ought to have happened many times.
>
>>>> Friendly fire incidents have happened many times.
>
>>> Sure. But they don't generally take the form described.
>
>>All the details of the hypothetical situation I was replying to 
>>haven't
>>happened (again, there are no schools where all the students are
>>required to pack firearms).
>
> When the rest of us say, "this never happens", we don't mean "this 
> never
> happens in schools, but happens all the time elsewhere".  It doesn't
> happen in schools, and it doesn't happen outside of schools.
>
> Well, not the sort of thing you started out trying to make everyone 
> afraid
> of.

Make people afraid???

Karl Johanson