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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 7929611, member: 105571&quot;]Support your claim with credible statistics.&nbsp; You really do make the most incredible unsupported statements.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>By using the word &quot;most&quot;, you must mean the common understanding of greater than 50%.&nbsp; Are you really claiming that more than 50% of collectors are victims of serious coin thefts?&nbsp; &nbsp; Again, support your claim with credible evidence.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We might argue over reasonableness but &quot;dishonest&quot;?&nbsp; And &quot;manly&quot;?&nbsp; I never intimated that this had anything to do with&nbsp; &quot;manliness&quot;.&nbsp; But I assure you that many collectors and dealers, regardless of their sex or gender, with valuable collections go to quite extreme lengths to protect their assets, as do I.&nbsp; I was at a coin show recently and asked a dealer friend of mine to estimate how many dealers on the bourse were armed.&nbsp; He looked around and said &quot;All of them&quot; and that was a bourse with hundreds of dealers on it and multiple armed security.&nbsp; While everyone would like to be able to leave their wallet stuffed with $100 bills on the sidewalk and expect that it wouldn&#039;t be taken, no adult is going to live their life that way nor have any reasonable expectation of it.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My argument is not that we should accept crime or not prosecute it.&nbsp; My argument is that living in the real world with all of its imperfections requires one to take certain measures to protect oneself from people of evil intent.&nbsp; Failure to do so is the epitome of hope over reality.&nbsp; Reminds me of &quot;Give peace a chance!&quot;&nbsp; Nice sentiment but that&#039;s all it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, I am sympathetic to your basic argument that the authorities and the commercial rarities corporations could do more to stem the tide of both theft and counterfeits than they are currently doing.&nbsp; But I think you are missing the boat if you think that constantly carping on it in this forum is doing anything about the problem.&nbsp; But of course, if you find it cathartic, please go right ahead.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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