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<blockquote data-quote="klein" data-source="post: 801771" data-attributes="member: 23950">Yup, add more guns to fight more gun crime.As long as it works out for you.&nbsp;Here, and mostly everywhere esle, it seems to work great the other way around.Having less guns on the streets and homes, and in return lowering gun crime.&nbsp;Quote from the Telegraph (British newspaper):&nbsp;&quot;Will America open its eyes? &nbsp;A law-abiding American citizen is far more likely to die with a bullet in his body than a British citizen. All the comparable Western countries with reasonable gun laws have long had vastly fewer gun homicides. The murder rate per 100,000 people for the US is 5.2. For Australia it is 0.07, for Japan, 0.05, and for the UK 0.06.&quot; &nbsp;(that&#039;s close to 100 fold lower then in the US) !!!Then again, maybe it&#039;s not the guns, maybe it&#039;s just a screwed up population ? Or a combination of both ?&nbsp;Entire story : <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/us-politics/8262152/Gabrielle-Giffords-shooting-Why-it-is-time-to-change-gun-laws.html" target="_blank">Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Why it is time to change gun laws</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="klein, post: 801771, member: 23950"] Yup, add more guns to fight more gun crime. As long as it works out for you. Here, and mostly everywhere esle, it seems to work great the other way around. Having less guns on the streets and homes, and in return lowering gun crime. Quote from the Telegraph (British newspaper): [B][COLOR=blue]"Will America open its eyes? [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=blue]A law-abiding American citizen is far more likely to die with a bullet in his body than a British citizen. All the comparable Western countries with reasonable gun laws have long had vastly fewer gun homicides. The murder rate per 100,000 people for the US is 5.2. For Australia it is 0.07, for Japan, 0.05, and for the UK 0.06." [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR][/B] (that's close to [B]100 fold[/B] lower then in the US) !!! Then again, maybe it's not the guns, maybe it's just a screwed up population ? Or a combination of both ? [B][COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=black]Entire story : [B][URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/us-politics/8262152/Gabrielle-Giffords-shooting-Why-it-is-time-to-change-gun-laws.html"][COLOR=navy]Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Why it is time to change gun laws[/COLOR][/URL][/B] [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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