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   "F Murtz"  wrote in message   
   news:49c2304b$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...   
   > 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   
      
   No - that is your peculiar idea. Produce whatever evidence you have that I   
   have ever advocated ridding the world of firearms.   
      
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