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To: i-node who wrote (688639)	12/16/2012 7:37:25 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 1573718

I can't imagine we'd end up with gun laws stricter than those of Brazil. Uh, they have considerably more people killed by guns each year despite having a smaller population and much stricter gun laws. Most of the gun violence problem would go away if you could only prevent poor people from getting a hold of them. For a long time this was done by economics but when the costs dropped in the late 19th century our gun death rates zoomed. One of the interesting facts about the US is that while whites barely make 50% of the population, they're about 85% of the hunters. It makes a better cultural divide than the red state / blue state division. About 5% of the white population hunts. When you consider elderly and young, and people living in places where hunting is difficult, this is a huge percentage. And I doubt that the US would try to disarm hunters. Interesting differences in a map of US firearm homicides versus firearm suicides. Suicides are about the same across the country but the homicides are in the southern half of the country (including California), and Alaska: cdc.gov -- Carl