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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (25604)2/4/2008 4:16:07 AM
From: KLP  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71588
 
In Switzerland, it is required that every household have at least one gun. And it is also required that everyone knows how to use a gun. They seem to have very few gun related deaths. At least the last time I looked that was true.



To: Peter Dierks who wrote (25604)2/4/2008 2:47:54 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71588
 
Not just blunt force trauma. The Rwandan genocide killed about a million people mostly with machetes.

Also they take in on faith that if you outlaw the weapons you can eliminate or almost eliminate the weapons.

I suppose our stirling success in outlawing and thus eliminating drugs makes them thing this...