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In a previous article, gurgle@netcom.com (Pete Gontier) says:

>>...it would hurt.  History has proven this time and time again.
>>New York, Wash. DC, Chicago, all places that have banned guns and have
>>the highest crime rates in the country, with the crime rates rising
>>dramatically after the citizenry was unarmed.
>
>It might be that the U.S. is already too screwed up with weird
>judeo-Xian guilt/hate for a ban on handguns to result in anything but
>pandemonium. See? I'm a reasonable guy. I'm willing to fall back
>to the position: "In any *reasonable* society, this would work..."
>Like, perhaps, the majority of other western societies.

	Give one example of a country where their murder and violent
crime rate dropped as a result of a handgun ban.  I'll make it easy
on you in that you don't have to prove causation, merely show the
murder/violent crime stats for ten years following and preceeding
the ban.

	I don't think you will find one such country:  Perhaps
no "reasonable" societies as you think of them exist.

Jim Del Vecchio

>Remember, we're talking about kids finding Daddy's gun, here. 5%
>sounds to me like a lot less than the present percentage, and in
>the terms to which I'm so valiantly trying to limit the discussion,
>that's a Good Thing.
	
	Provide an example where a ban has solved this limited problem,
same crit as above.