WEAC, mikkj, Dennis - A collective post.
Tee hee, see communisim is even invading message boards.
I'd figure I'd try to cover a few bases with one post as I'm stressed for time. I spent a good portion of the evening occupying one computer downloading the lastest version of Internet Explorer.
So, first to Dennis. Unlike WEAC's rather tart little answer, you can save yourself by downloading the new IE 6 or a patch for IE 5 or 4. You cannot keep your computer safe simply by not opening certain attachments. As I understand it you can pick up this worm (this is a first) from visiting infected websites.
And, yes, Dennis we, too, had problems at work. The IT guy dismissed me yesterday when I asked if it was the new worm causing the problem. The IT guy is quickly becoming less dismisive of me. It appears the patch that Microsoft first gave those trying to protect servers was faulty and caused other problems. Our Outlook Exchange has been on-again-off-again for two days.
mikkj - Thank you, thank you, thank you for the gun-registration link (big smooch to boot <G>). That was precisely the study that I was referencing. Also, thank you for so eloquently making the exact argument I would have with regards to the UN. No need for me to be repetitive.
WEAC - The study was conducted by John Hopkins University, and if you had not simply dismissed it outright you might have gotten some undesirable answers to your questions. The link is there in plain view.
They didn't report any facts, they reported that facts existed, and failed to back it up with anything more than conjecture based on thier own opinion.
...Why do people who support registration always make statements that assume that people commiting crimes with guns do so with guns they aquired legally, when nothing could be farther than the truth? The gun can be traced back to the person who last registered it legally. Period. Since the majority of the time that is not going to be the person who committed a crime with the gun, it proves useless as a crime control tool.
"Researchers analyzed data on guns recovered from crimes committed in 25 U.S. cities. The study focused on differences in the proportion of the cities' crime guns that were originally sold by in-state gun dealers. The percentage of crime guns sold by in-state gun dealers varied by the state's gun control regime: 84 percent in cities with no licensing or registration requirements; 72 percent in cities in states with either licensing or registration but not both; and only 33 percent where the state required both licensing and registration for handgun purchases. The large difference associated with these gun laws remained after the researchers accounted for other factors related to the state of origin of crime guns."
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