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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (832733)	1/26/2015 6:26:16 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583503

>> We have 32,000 deaths due to guns per year... Some of those could be avoided if there were no guns. No one really knows how many, but surely some. The problem, of course, is that you can't have "no guns." It will never happen. Could never happen. Not only because it would be unconstitutional to make it that way, but because you cannot get criminals to surrender their guns any more than you can the hunters. Even in Australia, where guns were banned, you didn't eliminate gun violence or firearm suicides (still, they have 35% the number of firearm suicides, which suggest a pretty substantial number of those claiming to have complied with the gun ban, didn't). At any rate, in the US there is an average of one gun per person. That is not going to change in your lifetime or mine. So, it would be best to focus on methods that might actually help save lives.