Whether John's (or Wirt's) number(s) are true or not, I think everyone will agree that my 5'2" 70+ year old mother is no match for any man that wants to do her harm. If she has a gun however (whether the attacker does or not), the battle is now much more evenly matched. Wirt Atmar wrote: > > Dave writes: > > > Please try to find a verifiable source for this..... > > > > People tend not to believe the NRA's numbers either, but those numbers are > > almost always taken from, and verifiable to, governmental agencies such as > > the FBI. > > The problem with John's statistics isn't whether or not they're "true" or not > in the literal sense, they're simply misleading non sequitirs. > > Much more to the point is that 4.1844 times more meteorites fall every year > in the counties won by Bush than they do on the counties won by Gore. And > even more alarming is the fact that the very much the same thing is true of > airplane crashes, although the ratio of Bush:Gore crashes is even higher. > > The questions you have to ask yourself then are: what the heck are the people > out there in Bush country doing to attract so many meteorites? And are we > going to let these people continue to knock airplanes out of the air the way > they are now? Shouldn't we be doing something to stop this blatantly criminal > activity? Where are the people with guns when you really need them? > > Wirt Atmar