XPost: aus.politics.guns, can.talk.guns, uk.politics.guns   
   From: haggisz@hotmail.com   
      
   R. LaCasse wrote:   
   > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:22:45 +1100, "Blinky Bill"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > |>Every country in the world has criminals. In fact the rates of most crimes   
   > |>in the US are comparable to the rates in other developed Western countries.   
   > |>What is radically different in the US is the availability of guns and the   
   > |>level of lethal violence involving guns. "Common sense" sees a connection   
   > |>between availability and use, and statistical studies confirm a correlation   
   > |>between availability and homicide/suicide . "Common sense" says that the   
   > |>availability of guns is a major part of the problem.   
   > |>   
   > 	Cite???....Ok I still read if guns are available guns will be used,   
   > if knives......if the criminals like ^the rock machine^ or something have   
   > mainly used  bombs, that's what they used.......*suicide bombers* have guns   
   > available they see no need for them.....why is that.....   
   >   
   > 	Because handguns make a deafening noise and witnesses are not deaf,   
   > so committing a "perfect crime" homicide with a handgun is almost   
   > impossible....ppl use drugs, digitalis, fugu, all sorts of things...guns   
   > are made of metal and hurt your ears indoors.....so why use   
   > them?....because they do that on TV....   
   >   
   > |>Less than a quarter of US firearm homicides in 2005 were known to have been   
   > |>commited during another felony or associated with other criminal activity.   
   > |>The rest, where circumstances were known, were domestic disputes,  romantic   
   > |>triangles, etc but mostly arfguments that turned into a homicide when a gun   
   > |>was available and used.   
   >   
   > 	So they used a gun to settle justice, not natural gas, not   
   > explosives, not an OD of fugu....but a gun, and they usually get caught,   
   > because of the noise.....   
   > 	   
   > 	A gun silencer is good, but a good one is rare without a state   
   > approved license....and these gun licenses well,...they do rake you over   
   > the coals for them.....criminals, they just laugh at these GUN LAWS...   
      
      
   Blinky bill and Trevor have this peculiar idea that if you rid the world   
   of firearms you miraculously stop mans inhumanity to man and there will   
   be no more homicide  or suicide.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)