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To: long-gone who wrote (29088)	2/26/1999 2:38:00 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116753

Re , don't understand, makes me feel safer if my neighbors have (and know how to use) guns. Hi Richard, Here are some statistics off the net Country hom hand all rate gun% gun% USA 8.8 29 48.9 Northern Ireland 5.2 1.5 Finland 2.9 7 25.5 Canada 2.1 4 30.8 Australia 2.0 2 20.1 Scotland 1.8 0.5 Belgium 1.8 6 16.8 Switzerland 1.2 14 32.6 Norway 1.2 3.5 31.2 France 1.2 5.5 24.7 West Germany 1.2 6.5 9.2 Spain 1.0 2 Netherlands 0.9 1 2.0 England & Wales 0.7 0.5 4.7 (52% of the Swiss handguns were identified as army guns.) I think it all depends where you live ... If I lived in the US with much higher handgun and total gun ownership, I might think differently. I would be worried about all these new inexperienced gun owners though. I have owned rifles in the past, but where I live there is not a lot of serious crime, so I would rather depend on strong locks, my 3 dogs and my wits in my retirement. BWDIK. Regards, John