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Excellent point Rich (none / 0)
Of course this is all about the profit motive of the gun makers.  Who do you think funds the NRA and the never ending fight against reality? 

The USA has more people in prison than any other nation, even more than China. 

The USA has a gun culture doesn't respect life. 

I'd have no problem if we did something like the Swiss do and have everyione who owns a gun have to do militia duty and training once a year to bear the responsibility of the right to keep and bear arms.

by Gregory Wonderwheel on 06/27/2008 04:02:04 PM EST

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Swiss (none / 0)
Again the swiss are a perfect example of how guns aren't the problem...people are the problem.  I would however have no problem having mandatory firearm safety training in high schools.  Ignorance is the true danger when it comes to firearms. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Gun_politics_in_Switzerla nd

The total number of firearms in private homes is estimated minimally at 1.2 million to 3 million.<sup>
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Police statistics for the year 2006<sup> </sup>records 34 killings or attempted killings involving firearms, compared to 69 cases involving bladed weapons and 16 cases of unarmed assault. Cases of assault resulting in bodily harm numbered 89 (firearms) and 526 (bladed weapons). This represents a decline of aggravated assaults involving firearms since the early 1990s. Some 300 deaths per year are due to legally held army ordinance weapons, the large majority of these being suicides. The majority of gun crimes involving domestic violence are perpetrated with army ordinance weapons, while the majority of gun crime outside the domestic sphere involves illegally held firearms.


 

by alphasigmookie on 06/27/2008 05:19:50 PM EST

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Breaks my heart (none / 0)
If only Charles Whitman would have had firearm training...

by ProfRich on 06/27/2008 05:38:06 PM EST

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