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Re: shootings

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Ann Carolan (acarolan.us)
Mon, 03 May 1999 15:40:07 +0000

MY POINT EXACTLY ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF THE MEDIA ON THE MINDS OF
IMPRESSIONABLE CHILDREN. Thank you for sharing the information. Although there
are no easy answers, we can glean some truth from this information and use it
to formulate laws, policies and actions for the future. If we save but one
life, it will be worth the rhetoric and time we are taking to discover the
truth. I believe it takes 99 monkeys to hear and believe the same thing before
things change.
ANN C

wmanning wrote:

> Here are some Canada-US statistics according to Maclean's (weekly newsmag):
> Per 100,100 people US Canada
> Guns 85,000 24,000
> murders 7.6 2.0
> murders without guns 2.4 1.4
> murders with guns 5.2 0.6
>
> Without guns, there's not much difference in the murder rate. With
> guns.......
> I'm not being smug here. There was a copycat murder in a school in
> Alberta
> the other day. A boy who had been teased so much he was taken out and
> home-schooled walked into his former school wearing a black trenchcoat and
> shot
> 2 students, killing one. According to the paper he had bragged about
> having a
> hit list of people he was going to kill. The paper also said he didn't
> know the
> 2 boys he shot.