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In <683dg4$72o@nr1.calgary.istar.net>, on 12/27/97 
   at 05:22 PM, lundgard@ns.ccinet.ab.ca (Jerrold Lundgard) said:


>>Gun control: Repeal 2nd Amendment
>Snip 
>>    We are not a safe country.  Our country has become a nation
>>holding on to its civilization while camps of lunatics and
>>marauders wander among us armed to the teeth with the most
>>sophisticated and dangerous of high-tech weapons. 

>Is this really happening in Des Moines, Iowa? 
>Or anywhere in Iowa?

I have no idea.  I don't live in the US.

>>    But as complicated as the causes are, the solution is simple. 
>>We need look no farther than Canada, Western Europe or Japan for
>>the results of effective gun-control laws. 

>If the Canadian gun control laws were effective, then the crime
>rate involving firearms would be the same in all regions of
>Canada.  It isn't.   Nor is the crime rate dependent on the
>number of firearms available in a region.

Perhaps it has more to do with the general antipathy for guns in
other jurisdictions?  Certainly wouldn't be a great impairment of
"rights" to attempt a complete prohibition on handguns and very
very strict and expensive regulations of long guns to see if the
firearm death rate declines!

>A small proportion of young people have not learned respect for
>others, for some this includes respect for human life.   There
>have been teenage gangs in Canada who have beaten their victims
>to death, run them over with automobiles or set fire to them. 
>They have boots, chains, knives, cars, gasoline, and matches.
>- they don't really need "high tech weapons".
>What they do need is a respect for other people and the law!

All that occurrs down there too, plus alot more accidental and
deliberate gun violence.  

>Some  young people think it is acceptable to break the law,
>whether it be "smoking a joint", breaking and entering, lying and
>fraud, etc.   These kids think it only
>unacceptable to be caught.   Gosh, they could be politicians in a
>few years.

Of course!  No one has a simple solution though.  All we can
attempt to do is mitigate the damage that "youth" will inflict on
themselves and others.


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