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To: ManyMoose who wrote (251689)	4/28/2002 3:28:09 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769670

latimes.com "Europe: Laws stricter than those in the U.S. haven't prevented recent rampages. Part of the problem is a booming underworld trade" "...Britain, of course, has some of the toughest firearm laws in the world. The Labor government outlawed handguns in 1997 in response to a rampage by a gunman who mowed down 16 schoolchildren, ages 5 and 6, and their teacher in the Scottish town of Dunblane....Nonetheless, the statistics are not good. Between April and November 2001, the number of homicides in London committed with a firearm rose almost 90% over the same period a year earlier. Armed street robberies rose 53%..."