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To: Sam who wrote (211748)	12/15/2012 11:25:50 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541120

All places where there are problematic inner cities rife with crime. Not much gun laws can do there- but they can cut down marginal murders, opportunistic suicides, and children killing themselves and other accidentally or on purpose. blogs.bostonmagazine.com In order to talk about what gun laws can and cannot do, you really have to break down the murders by type. Some types gun laws are good at preventing, and some thing aren't.

To: Sam who wrote (211748)	12/15/2012 11:38:15 PM
From: Cautious_Optimist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541120

America's urban areas tend to have higher homicide rates despite what you claim as stronger gun laws, because the laws and enforcement generally are not strong enough to deal with the oversupply of firearms and ammo through profitable black markets... Its all part of an internal American arms race. Ask any public safety officer in Oakland or Richmond CA about this reality. Plenty of the weapons and ammunition come from nearby virtually anarchistic suburban and rural gun shows. If the conventional NRA theories were true, the ubiquity of guns in the inner city would lead to less gang and other crime related homicides, not more. The amoral profiteering gun industry loves to see the arms buildup and use of the firearms, on all sides, as in any war.