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[Steve W.]

peter ogborne wrote:
> So what do you do let everyone have a gun?Is it a case of shoot first and 
> then ask questions?We have a law that says that we can use like force to 
> reject an assault or house intrusion ,bloody stupid and quite unworkable but 
> a lot less reactionary than your suggestion of arming everyone,It would be 
> mayhem!
> I may well be wrong but I heard an '' Expert '' talking this morning and 
> saying that firearms are allowed on the campus .Perhaps this is just in 
> Virginia.If this is correct then it defies logic!!
> Lyles fundamentalist solutions ........well I think it has been tried and 
> you can not account for nutters as in the case in question .It would be 
> reactionary rather than some attempt to prevent such things happening.
> A statistic I heard .....in the world there are an estimated 6 million hand 
> guns ,2 million are in the US. Don't know where these stats came from ,maybe 
> they are correct ,maybe not.
> I think [and this will create a hell of a response ] that the big problem in 
> the US and to a lesser degree in Australia is the power of the National 
> Rifleman's Association.Correct me if I am wrong but is not their lobbying 
> power awesome,not many politicians will stand up to them?
> Finally I would be interested to know which states in the US have gun 
> control that works, also to  ask the parents of those kids killed this 
> morning what they think about ''The Right To Bare Arms''
> 

NONE of the states that have gun control have shown ANY decrease in gun 
crime NONE.
Washington DC. For instance has the strictest gun controls of ANY area 
in the US, They also have the second highest gun crime rate in the WORLD.
California comes in second in gun control laws, They also come in 5th in 
the world in gun crime per capita.

Now if you look at the states that have removed the bans and 
restrictions, guess what you find? A REDUCTION IN ALL CRIMES. Why? 
Simple, an armed target is no fun to attack.
Florida just did the same thing and with only one year of liberty crime 
has gone DOWN.

You might want to read the TRUTH about what the NRA does and why. Not 
listen to the total BULL that the idiot media fluffs claim is the truth.