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Old May 22, 2007, 08:07 pm   #39 (permalink) (top)
Chris the Chees
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Had guns been available in these cases in Japan, the death toll per rampages would undoubtedly increase.
SHW, I shouldn't bother pointing that out. Such obvious logic is apparently a "simplification" of the situation. Apparently gun availability has nothing to do with the reason why some countries with high violent crime also have high murder levels, while those which also have high violent crime, but low gun numbers have low murder rates. I guess that as gun cultures are irrelevent it must be something in the water in Japan, Britain, etc, which subdues wouldbe murderers.


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