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RE: guns

No Kyle, the number is not 'a bit low'. The numbers are part of a report, 
produced annually (which is independently audited) by London's Metropolitan 
police. The last IRA bombing in London was in 1992 (as far as I remember). 
It killed 2 people. I don't really see what your reply to my post has to do 
with gun control anyway. It seems to have veered way off into an 
ill-informed rant that serves only to betray an ignorance of events outside 
the USA. Hardly a reply worthy of you. Oh and before you launch another 
attack on the Brits, don't bother - I'm Irish.

Sian

>From: "Kyle Howe" <howe.38 at osu_edu>
>Reply-To: <howe.38 at osu_edu>
>To: "'Maud Bailey'" <melusine51 at hotmail_com>, <barabas0 at hotmail_com>,       
>  <over-the-rhine at actwin_com>
>Subject: RE: guns
>Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 13:50:05 -0400
>
> >Here in the UK handguns are banned. In London last year there were 32
> >murders (which is very low for a city of London's size) and only 2 of 
>those
> >were gun-related (therefore drug-related). I think the numbers speak for
> >themselves. Children will keep on dying needlessly until you understand
>that
> >thinking of gun ownership as a constitutional right denies the human 
>right
> >to life for all of us.
>
>
>Lets talk about london, i bet the numbers here a tad low.  I think that's
>only the "criminal" muders as opposed to general homicides (read terrorist
>actions).  32 covers about one IRA bus bombing.  Do you really want to live
>somewhere where you are not allowed to have guns, but the first response
>teams(after the billy club carrying Bobbies) are fully armed SWAT teams or
>,if you are really lucky, members of the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment
>knocking down your door with flashbangs.  Yes, the constitutional laws in 
>UK
>is a bit different, they can and do use military units to enforce civilian
>laws (and conduct assisnations).
>
>how about crime rates in Switzerland?  where everyone is required by law to
>have a military firearm in their household.?
>
>I think of the children dying as a darwinian process.  It weeds out the
>stupid and the unfit.  and maybe teach the parent(s) that they should keep
>their guns better stored for their next ones.  But if they can't then its
>better off their contribution to the gene pool be kept to a minimum.
>

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