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To: TimF who wrote (9631)	1/24/2006 12:42:56 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541703

I don't think that Arlington is a very good proxy for Virginia. I'd bet there were fewer guns in Arlington than in any other county in the state. There are probably as many in Washington. In further contrast to Washington, Arlington has a no-nonsense, law-and-order criminal justice system and its demographics are different from both DC and most of Virginia. I'm not sure of the utility of comparing the US and GB, either. We have a culture of guns here. They have none there. Even if we started controlling guns here today, we'd never be like them. The many other criteria the two countries have in common combined don't trump that cultural history, IMO.