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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (133069)	3/23/2001 12:47:10 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

The instances of guns being used in proper self defense are far outweighed by their illegal use in crimes and accidental use at home. Between 1990 and 1999, 8,100 people died of ACCIDENTAL firearm-related deaths. 32,166 people died from firearms in 1997; 13,252 were homicides. Removing guns from society would take a large effort, but would be well worth the cost in the added security and resulting DROP in crime and murders. So, your argument is that automatic weapons are heavily regulated, and cause almost no deaths. So, your position is the regulation of automatic guns WORKS, but regulation of handguns WON'T WORK. Hmm, seems to be a rather convenient set of logic there.