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To: tejek who wrote (334057)	4/19/2007 2:13:07 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 1573824

what law - you're very non-specific

To: tejek who wrote (334057)	4/19/2007 8:51:58 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573824

China increasing use of speedy trains By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer Wed Apr 18, 5:49 PM ET Faster Chinese trains running at about 125 mph began service Wednesday as part of a bid to keep up with ballooning transport demand, state media reported. The first of scores of high-speed trains left Shanghai Wednesday morning for the nearby city of Suzhou, making the 53-mile trip in 39 minutes, Xinhua News Agency reported. "It felt like we were traveling on an airplane," said Chen Lijuan, 78, a Suzhou native who lives in Shanghai. "In the past it took more than an hour to get here." The speed upgrade is the sixth in the history of China's railways, which provide a vital, low-cost link between the scattered regions of the vast nation of 1.3 billion people. On some routes, top speeds will climb to 155 mph, cutting two hours off the trip between Shanghai and Beijing to as little as nine hours. Millions of Chinese take trains every year, but the railways have been facing stiff competition from the growing highway system and increasingly inexpensive, more convenient air travel. China is upgrading tracks for faster speeds, and expanding its rail network. Last year saw the opening of a 710-mile line to Tibet's capital, crossing mountain passes at more than 16,400 feet. With land availability growing tighter — especially in the heavily populated Yangtze river delta region around Shanghai — increasing speeds is seen as the best way to boost capacity. Xinhua quoted Vice Railways Minister Hu Yadong as saying the speed increase would raise passenger capacity by more than 18 percent and freight capacity by more than 12 percent.

To: tejek who wrote (334057)	4/19/2007 10:14:20 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573824

You said it yourself, the US is more violent than most European countries. That doesn't just include more gun violence, we have more non-gun violence (and if we had a tendency to only be as violent as Europeans, then our non-gun violence would be less because gun violence can substitute for, stop, and/or deter non-gun violence) Also it doesn't work quite as well in these other countries as you think. The amount of violence in many countries has risen. Meanwhile state that passed "shall issue" concealed carry laws saw gun crime, and violent crime in general drop. There are tens of thousands of gun control laws in the US. Plus many other rules that aren't law, just policies. The shooter at VA tech violated quite a few of them. Would violating 10 laws instead of 7 have given him pause? If guns were illegal in VA, he could have just gone to another state or bought an illegal gun (which he also could have done if they where illegal across the US). If handguns where illegal he could have gotten one anyway, or used a shotgun or rifle and maybe killed more people. If concealability was an issue he could have sawed off the shotgun, sure its illegal, but feat of violating the law was hardly going to stop him.