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Old 12-21-2004, 11:41 AM   #18 (permalink)
The_Dunedan
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Suave;
Actually, increased presence of firearms drives down -all- types of crime, violent or not. Mr. Lott's book More Guns, Less Crime provides exaustive documentation of this.
As for suicide: Japan has -no- legal gun-ownership, and a suicide rate more than 3X higher than ours.
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