differentia specifica (was: guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime)

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 09:05 AM 10/20/00 -0500, JOseph Noonan wrote:
>Yeah, I think we should have shut the door on those drunken
>Irish and those fucking thieving, swarthy, Italians before 1850
>and we'd be a lot better off now.
>
>Liberatrian criminals, one and all.

Why 1850?  Wasn't the South a British penal colony waaay before that?

wojtek