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> AFAIK in all Europe small firearms are prohibited from the general > public. And I don't think it is a problem there. Hardly any police > officer died on his job over there neither. _The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy_, David B. Kopel. Here's an entire book on the subject. Short answer: Entirely different societies. Even when Germany, England, and etc, had no restrictions on private arms, their crime rates were lower than what Americas was, even as astoundingly low as it was before gun control. However, that book was written years before England finally violated their thousand years of history of the Gentleman Yeoman by prohibiting private arms, so you might ask one of their Bobbies why they're carrying guns now when they didn't have to for a hundred years after their founding as the world's first professional police force. I'm pretty sure that Kopel would have included a chapter on that travesty. Curt- - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRFelri9Y35yItIgBAQKCkwf/Xn9Xy5vpJJf0vW4YYth1P7cHKtNrnwFA ycJTiV0hNXtXMwgCRZ6ihhwcRUuzI9HnRKMu2WlQ4moz4RXcrBFK82JEPhWKk1XQ OVsKPRYMRjWQ/td6UI1r6+Mf87/54cQM6gl1Ak8BrZL6PxYcjmKfPlkFuIy0Y38k 7Dpnsevj+pKvEjyo9c4VvMBstcl03oIz8xaXEyO0zLHruRPKQdmlgF+uOaKI01bG PkY0cWtP9mQAIv2O5xqfLhozvJY2s/28zlKR8Uyzy+QWqiGy/67vx9uS+USqMXYT LDARiMZXjqw/ENJJs/EFL8ChP+j642ocvnY58j+ICuRrwm8f9EQNQg== =EBAB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
