>Pace University. Please email your answers to survey.MBA@gmail.com .
>We promise that any
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>purposes.

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We should start measuring the Canadian gov't expenditures
by gun registries. Put things into perspective.
2. DevilsPGD
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Survey....@gmail.com wrote:
>Pace University. Please email your answers to survey....@gmail.com .
>We promise that any
>information you provide here will be confidential and will not be used
>for any other
>purposes.
> It's too bad that universities don't have funding to get a domain of
> their own and instead rely on gmail addresses.
Gee. I thought there was an ".edu" domain. :-) I'm not certain who
the domain registrar is. Still, I can imagine circumstances where an
anonymous address would help. (I don't see that in this particular
message, but it is possible.)
(There does appear to be a <http:www.pace.edu> site. I've only looked
to see that it exists.)
> It's also a shame that they no longer teach accurate or reliable survey
> taking methodology.
Now that is unfair. When professional pollsters can't count to eleven
without taking off either their shoes or pants (if male), it should not
be surprising that universities have forgotten the basics.
It seems to me kind of a useless survey. On the other hand, while the
questions are stupid, I don't see the kind of biased questions we see
on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNC, et al.
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> We should start measuring the Canadian gov't expenditures
> by gun registries. Put things into perspective.
Well, actually, I am not certain you can. The first step is to compare
crime rates and police expenditures by the percentage of the population
allowed to carry guns. Were I Canadian, you would not know about the
weapons in my closet; nor would the burglar.
You folks want to make the world safe for thieves, burglars, rapists
and murderers. Ask your sister (or wife, or girlfriend) if she would
prefer to wait for 15 minutes after calling your emergency number (in
These United States it is "911") for the RCMP to arrive --- or have
her own little gun tucked in her bra.
I admit that this post is almost entirely off-topic. You keep your
cats indoors (as I now do mine.) Still, if my old cat (Lorenzo) had
not chased off the raccoons invading his territory, those fella's would
have had me to deal with.
(Of course, I threatened Lorenzo to leave the white squirrels alone;
but I'm not certain he understood.)
DevilsPGD - 25 Nov 2005 07:50 GMT
(This goes vastly off-topic, so anyone who isn't interested in my
rantings, please disregard)
>> We should start measuring the Canadian gov't expenditures
>> by gun registries. Put things into perspective.
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>allowed to carry guns. Were I Canadian, you would not know about the
>weapons in my closet; nor would the burglar.
Sorry, that signature is only supposed to go into Canadian-specific
groups (where people that follow politics would know the history), but
it appears I have it misclassified. Fixed in my master sigfile...
The Canadian gun registry was supposed to cost ballpark $5-million, and
it would repay 100% of that money within a small number of years (based
on fees collected during registration)
In reality, about $4 billion dollars in, they determined that the
project is unworkable in it's current state and would need over $1
billion to fix what they've got done so far.
>You folks want to make the world safe for thieves, burglars, rapists
>and murderers.
Not at all -- I'd much rather a potential thief know that there are
50/50 odds of me having a gun in my house then 10:1 odds that I don't.
I'd also like them to know that if I should happen to decide to wound or
kill them while they're on my property without my authorization, I won't
even need to see the inside of a court room to be cleared of any crime.

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