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Gun Control Misfires in Europe
Wall Street Journal ^
| April 30, 2002
| John Lott
Posted on 04/30/2002 5:48:26 PM PDT by Washingtonian
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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By JOHN R. LOTT JR.
Sixteen people were killed during Friday's school shooting in Germany. This follows the killing of 14 regional legislators in Zug, a Swiss canton, last September, and the massacre of eight city council members in a Paris suburb last month. The three worst public shootings in the Western world during the past year all occurred in Europe, whose gun laws are exactly what gun-control advocates want the U.S. to adopt. Indeed, all three occurred in gun-free "safe zones."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; guns; selfdefense
To: Washingtonian
bump
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posted on
04/30/2002 5:51:48 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: Washingtonian
"making it a crime to use a gun defensively"
That will help.
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04/30/2002 6:10:40 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: Washingtonian
bang
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posted on
04/30/2002 6:28:45 PM PDT
by
drq
To: Washingtonian
Have you noticed that our elite national media have dropped this story like a hot potato? It doesn't fit into their template of what constitutes a gun control story.
To: Jolly Green
Exactly right. Everything they ever asked for , and more in German gun control, and it still did not stop a horrible school shooting. Gee.. how are they going to spin that to call for gun control like the Germans have?
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04/30/2002 6:55:38 PM PDT
by
marktwain
To: Washingtonian
Europeans have a really bad track record when it comes to guns. They should not be allowed to own them, or even have them around - most assuredly guns should never be issued to their armies!
Americans seem to have a knack, natural born I am sure, for figuring out how to use guns in the least injurious manner.
This may well be an example of "evolution in our time", worked in tandem with major technological advances.
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04/30/2002 6:59:59 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: *bang_list
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04/30/2002 8:22:19 PM PDT
by
Djarum
To: Washingtonian
Australia also passed severe gun restrictions in 1996, banning most guns and making it a crime to use a gun defensively. Shovels are cheap and the outback is large and hardly populated at all.
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