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To: JohnM who wrote (36609)	4/21/2007 8:03:26 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541921

It's interesting. Iowa has an amazingly low rate of murder, and California is high- same police permitting policy. deathpenaltyinfo.org Alaska is quite high as well. Apparently carrying guns doesn't make people polite enough not to murder each other :-)

To: JohnM who wrote (36609)	4/21/2007 8:44:15 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541921

John - I saw an interesting article today talking about how mass murders are up since the 1960s. It includes these two paragraphs: "Australia had a spate of mass public shooting in the 1980s and '90s, culminating in 1996, when Martin Bryant opened fire at the Port Arthur Historical Site in Tasmania with an AR-15 assault rifle, killing 35 people. "Within two weeks the government had enacted strict gun control laws that included a ban on semiautomatic rifles. There has not been a mass shooting in Australia since." Here's a link to the article: apnews.excite.com - Allen