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No matter what self defence is a fundamental natural right.  Also a right to personal security is a 
right and freedom, the registry violates this.

On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:33:13 -0700, in van.general "VPD Det." <VanduPoliceDept@gov.bc.ca> wrote:

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�Date: Sat, October 8, 2011 7:50 am
�From: "Dennis & Hazel Young" 
�Subject: Gun registry a suicide prevention issue: Physicians
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�VANCOUVER SUN - OCTOBER 8, 2011
�Letter: Gun registry a suicide prevention issue: Physicians
�BY ALAN DRUMMOND
�http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/registry+suicide+prevention+issue+Physicians/5523248/story.html
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�Re: Gun killings unaffected by firearm control, Oct. 6
�http://www.vancouversun.com/news/killings+unaffected+firearm+control/5510596/story.html
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�The Conservative's principal argument has been that the provisions of the
�Gun Control Bill have not been effective as a crime control measure and that
�the bill victimizes rural, long gun owners. They conveniently forget that 75
�per cent of firearms deaths in Canada are due to suicide. Rural Canadians
�are overrepresented in this sad statistic and the great majority of these
�are caused by long guns. For Canada's emergency physicians, the issue of gun
�control is not that of crime control but rather as suicide prevention.
�Overall, firearm-related suicides decreased by 43 per cent since the
�introduction of stricter gun laws in 1991 and by 23 per cent since the
�introduction of the Firearms Act in 1995. This issue deserves our attention
�with respect to gun control, particularly during a week when we have heard
�impassioned speeches on the floor of the House Of Commons about a national
�strategy for the prevention of suicide.
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�Alan Drummond, MD Chair, Public Affairs, Canadian Association of Emergency
�Physicians
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�SUICIDES BY FIREARM AND BY HANGING
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�               ALL     GUN     ROPE
�1991	3593	1110	1034
�1992	3704	1050	1151
�1993	3803	1054	1234
�1994	3746	975	1270
�1995	3968	916	1382
�1996	3937	883	1414
�1997	3677	818	1409
�1998	3698	818	1434
�1999	4073	807	1755
�2000	3605	685	1546
�2001	3688	651	1509
�2002	3648	633	1570
�2003	3765	618	1662
�2004	3613	568	1590
�2005	3743	593	1682
�2006	3512	586	1529
�2007	3611	534	1551
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�Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Vital Statistics, Death Database
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�http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/hlth66a-eng.htm
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