[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 10/27/2012 1:00 PM, AEF wrote:
> On Oct 26, 8:14 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>> In article <k6dr9i$47... at news.albasani.net>,
>>          Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com> writes:
>>
>>> Bill Gunshannon wrote 2012-10-26 12:40:
>>>> In article <733ad$5089cd9c$5ed43c14$22... at cache60.multikabel.net>,
>>>>         Dirk Munk <m... at home.nl> writes:
> [...]
>>>>> That's good. Just think of the guy who shot his 15yr old son a couple of
>>>>> weeks ago, because he thought the boy was a burglar. Life must be hell
>>>>> for him now, waking up every morning in the knowledge that he killed his
>>>>> own son.
>>
>>>> Except for the fact that he was a burglar.
>>
>>>> bill
>>
>>> So what? Not particual easy to regret a fired bullet.
>>> I guess he'd preferd that he had taken his car, or something...
>>
>> ???  He wasn't after a car.  He was attempting to break into a neighbor's
>> house.  A neightbor who happened to be a relative.  He was armed and there
>> is no reason to believe (based on what we read in the daily newspapers)
>> that he would have hesitated to use his gun.  And the neighbor (his aunt)
>> was home at the time and is the one who called the father to come to her
>> aid.
>>
>> Criminals are criminals.  If the police were willing to pull the trigger
>> more often there would be a lot less of them. And individual citizens
>> would find it much less necessary to do the job themselves.
>
> I suppose we should cut off burglar's hands if the gunshots don't kill
> them. Hey, why not torture them, too?!
>
> In the 1990's and 2000's, the crime rate in New York City was greatly
> reduced without "pulling the trigger more often". Moreover, IIRC, NYC
> police fire their weapons less often than police in most other U.S.
> cities.
>
>> Maybe what the father really needs to be asking himself is why his kid
>> was an armed robber in the first place.
>
> The son was robbing his own father's house? Fascinating. Didn't the
> parents ever go on vacation? Need more details here.
>
>>
>> bill
>
> AEF
>
>>
>> --
>> Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
>> billg... at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
>> University of Scranton   |
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>
> Wouldn't two wolves be enough?
>

Would two wolves constitute a quorum?  I think that three wolves would
be required to constitute a quorum.