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

To: jackhach who wrote (491093)	11/11/2003 7:09:10 PM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 769670

There are Govt Statistics that show about 900 to 1500 accidental deaths per year.

To: jackhach who wrote (491093)	11/11/2003 7:58:39 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

Regulating guns like they were bottles of medicine is a big mistake. Regulating itself is sometimes a big mistake that brings about the unintended result. Thinking in terms that save just one more life is demonstrably beyond us most of the time at least as far as it pertains to regulations. "Unfortunately, despite the best of intentions, safety rules do not always increase safety. President Clinton has argued many times that "we protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children." However, Harvard economist W. Kip Viscusi has shown that child-resistant bottle caps have resulted in "3,500 additional poisonings of children under age 5 annually from (aspirin-related drugs) ... (as) consumers have been lulled into a less-safety-conscious mode of behavior by the existence of safety caps." If Mr. Clinton were aware of such research, he surely wouldn't refer to aspirin bottles when telling us how to deal with guns. " John Lott