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To: tejek who wrote (103825)	4/11/2000 2:06:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572016

ted, I lived in South Korea for 8 years. They have almost no gun related crime at all. They keep the few guns they have at the police stations under lock and key. When hunting season comes along they go check them out early in the morning or the night before. Oddly, they hang out in front of the police station drinking Soju on the streets in plain view, in fact chating with the police until it's light enough to go pheasant hunting in the rice paddies. Nothing like a drunk Korean hunting pheasants around your house! Not that I condone drinking and gun handling, but I think they had something in the lock'em up strategy. Atleast if an officer thought they had too much to drink and hunt they could take the gun away and lock them and the gun up for awhile. I felt completely safe from gun violence in Korea, of course broken bottles and knives where the weapon of choice for crime, along with Tae Kwon Do, which everyone thinks they know as it's taught in PE class in Korea.