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To: Zoltan! who wrote (24056)	8/9/1998 11:45:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

Duncan, I love discussing issues with you, because you are almost always wrong!! What fun!! The international gun death statistics were recently released for 1994. As you can see from the chart I have attached, the gun deaths per capita in Switzerland are actually relatively high, almost as high as in Northern Ireland, which was very much at war in 1994, and had a heavily armed populace divided into two polarized camps actually trying to kill each other. As you can see from this list, the countries where people do not carry handguns and there is no culture of guns, were at the bottom of the list. Interestingly, Japan and Great Britain have recently tightened their rules on handguns even further. GUN DEATHS Gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in selected countries in 1994 United States 14.24 Brazil 12.95 Mexico 12.69 Estonia 12.26 Argentina 8.93 Northern Ireland 6.63 Finland 6.46 Switzerland 5.31 France 5.15 Canada 4.31 Israel 2.91 Italy 2.44 Kuwait 1.84 Germany 1.24 England and Wales 0.41 Taiwan 0.37 Hong Kong 0.14 South Korea 0.12 Japan 0.05