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About 5 years ago concealed gun laws were enacted in most southern states and crime and gun related mortality has gone down!

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From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org on behalf of Greg Benton
Sent: Thu 4/19/2007 2:54 AM
To: Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list
Subject: RE: Australia and Gun control...

Julian

I think the biggest difference between Australia and the US is that
concealed carry has never been an option here (at least not in my 40 years
on the planet) We dont have that level of ready access to guns, in
particular handguns, that has apparently been the case in the US. Nor do we
have a constitutional "right to bear arms" so government can and does
legislate to control guns in our community.

Crime rate explosion of 300% sounds a little excessive and smacks of
somebody running a media campaign, I am sure I would have noticed if things
had suddenly gotten that dangerous here. Aussies have never had a culture of
arming ourselves to go to the local store, I doubt very much that gun
control is the root of the crime spree if your stats are correct. As things
stand with our storage lgislation, by the time I got my shot gun out of the
safe, collected the ammunition from its separately locked and keyed
cupboard, loaded up and confronted the criminal it would be all over.

Our young people do adopt alot of americansism, maybe the cultural divide is
closing, but I hope it never gets to the point where my kids have to arm
themselves to go to the mall and be safe. I am a gun owner and I love the
shooting sports, but would worry if concealed carry ever becomes a
neccessity in this country.

Cheers

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org
[mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org]On Behalf Of Julian Guitron, M.D.
Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2007 8:08 AM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: Australia and Gun control...

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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