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Wed Apr 18 23:08:28 BST 2007

Tony Joseph,

10 years have gone by... I've heard that overall crime
rate has exploded up to 300% since the tighter gun
control. Now good people don't have guns, only the
criminals!

Is this correct?

Julian Guitron M.D.
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital

> > 
>     Dear Ken
> 
>     Sorry but I did try to restrain myself from
> commenting.
> 
>     While I agree that there is  need for more
> mental health facilities
>     worldwide, I doubt if it would have helped the
> disturbed young man in
>     Virginia ( according to reports here he was a
> loner and wrote worrying 
> plays
>     in creative writing classes about killing fellow
> students and a 
> professor).
> 
>     Anyway, the point is that he was able to
> purchase 2 semi-automatic hand 
> guns
>     and kill 32 young people whatever the state of
> his mind.
> 
>     USA has 4% of the world's population and 50% of
> the firearms- surely 
> injury
>     prevention measures ( and common sense)  should
> be applied as in any 
> other
>     trauma situation.
> 
>     As I said previously when we had a similar
> incident here in Australia 
> with
>     35 killed in Tasmania over 10 years ago, our
> Prime Minister to his 
> credit
>     changed the gun laws overnight with the
> cooperation of our States making 
> it
>     much more difficult to buy guns and virtually
> impossible to buy an 
> handgun
>     as a private citizen.
> 
>     If this group can't change the culture and the
> constitution in your 
> country,
>     who can?
> 
>     Regards
>     Tony Joseph
>     Sydney
> 
> 

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