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>From: Marv Gandall <marvgand at gmail.com>
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>Our disagreements were prompted instead by your (angry) suggestion that the majority of blacks and hispanics in the recent Pew survey who favoured gun control (the majority of whites were opposed) ought instead to be focusing public attention elsewhere, ie. on the relation between poverty and crime.
That's not the way I read that. He wasn't talking about people who answered the survey. He was talking about the way the question is posed and the story written. That's very different.
>It broadened out from there into a general discussion about the possibility and practicality of any form of gun control, and, more specifically, whether the absence of the gun laws >commonly found elsewhere uniquely contributed to America's extraordinarily high homicide rates.
That's a little backwards. The conversation had been going on for days before that.