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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: maceng2 who wrote (20115)2/26/2002 9:49:47 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
An armed society is a polite society.

Not in the South African townships... nor in many other areas of the world.

The social stability enjoyed here in the Occident is really the exception in the world unfortunately, but this doesn't have anything directly to do with gun-grabbing. For example, crime involving firearms has been on the rise in France, but this is more a function of the arms that are now circulating in Europe following the Bosnian conflict. They have had quite a number of cases of gang bangers in the housing projects in possession of rocket launchers, something we don't see at all here in the US (not even in Texas :-)
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