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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (334836)	4/23/2007 1:54:52 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572631

Compared to the US, Germany has had hardly any school shootings. Hardly any - the two most recent are only eclipsed in magnitude by this most recent VA Tech shooting, before a week ago they were on a par with the worst US shootings and this from a country that has banned handguns. Nonetheless the US has a clear majority of shootings..........don't you on the right ever pay attention to the facts? Who knows what causes the problem .......I suspect its a number of factors but what's galling is how much energy gun lovers put into making sure we have more than our fair share of guns. What's galling is the fact you won't even attempt to find the real issues or possible ways to reduce the risk - you'll simply create another useless anti-gun law. We know gun control laws work in other countries. The classic example is AU.......had shooting massacres, implemented gun control laws in the mid 1980s.....no shootings since. Why would it work in AU and not here? Because you don't want gun control to work, do you? And as for England, even as there is a rise in violence in that country, their rate is still lower than the rate for the US. As you already told us the US has a culture of violence and it's in our genes - now you want us to combat genetics? I've always said that is one possible hypothesis. Why do you keep criticizing that which you don't understand?