"Nebulous"  wrote:

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:"Fred J. McCall"  wrote in message 
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:> "nebulous"  wrote:
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:> :"Fred J. McCall"  wrote in message
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:> :> "nebulous"  wrote:
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:> :> :"Fred J. McCall"  wrote in message
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:> :> :> "nebulous"  wrote:
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:> :> :> And here we see the difference.  Scots (and others) who get shot over
:> :> :> here usually have to force their way onto private property and act in
:> :> :> a threatening way in order for it to happen.  In Britain, one need
:> :> :> only be minding one's own business in a public place for the police to
:> :> :> shoot you.
:> :> :>
:> :> :
:> :> :You sure about that?
:> :> :
:> :>
:> :> Quite sure.
:> :>
:> :> :
:> :> :American police don't exactly have a clean record either when it comes 
:> to
:> :> :visiting violence on the populace.
:> :> :
:> :>
:> :> True, but rather irrelevant.
:> :>
:> :> :
:> :> :My fellow Scot was shot because he
:> :> :sounded Irish. How many people have been shot by the police in America
:> :> :because they were black?
:> :> :
:> :>
:> :> None.
:> :>
:> :> [You will now no doubt bring up Amadou Diallo.]
:> :
:> :
:> :I was thinking of him initially. He was probably the one who made most
:> :headlines over here however:
:>
:> Real hard to sell any of these as "they were shot just because they
:> were black", though I expect you to try.
:
:Naaw I'm going to withdraw. We're never going to agree on many things I'm 
:pretty sure. I find many of these situations including De Vries, our Weegie 
:in London and those Blue on Black stories as I saw them described on a 
:website, absolutely unacceptable - and you don't. 
:

Actually, I do.  I just find the alternative even more unacceptable.

:
:We live in different 
:societies with different backgrounds, different cultures and different 
:journeys to get here.
:

Precisely, and that is why I keep trying to explain to people that
European 'solutions' like gun control not only won't work here, but
will have a larger down side than any problems that they might solve.

:
:Nevertheless we share the same planet!
:

The meek shall inherit the Earth....

1) .... but they tend to inherit very small pieces of it, around
3'x6'x6'.

2) .... but not until the violent have tamed it for them.

3) .... the rest of us are going to the stars...

-- 
You have never lived until you have almost died.
Life has a special meaning that the protected
    will never know.