>LOL, I know why you think that. There was a false document floating arround on the internet saying that. It has been recognised as beeing false and there a lot of sites dicsussing why the document was false.
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>I you search on the UT archives you'll find the references. It came up a few years ago.
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>Again, you've been fooled.
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>Rubbish. Even officials in Tasmania and New South Wales have acknowledged marked increases in violent crimes since the new laws went into effect 10 years ago.
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>The 'recognition' to which you're referring is a British study, due large to changes in the way data was collected and reported.


Your source please?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/13/dudley.pdf


Look, I do recognise the american loves his guns and it difficult for them to put them away. It has a large history of using them and it will be difficult to change that. However in modern society there is no place for guns in the hands of less than pro's (police and military).

There is a large resistance against gun-control to many forces amonst which is weapon lobby, which appearantly are able to fool a large portion of the population. Of course its hard to see your believes disproven and will search for every 'proof' available to deny it. (as religous groups will find proof in the bible to support their claims). IOW, public denial. There is absolutely no reason why the US society cannot be as safe as european countries without guns. It probably needs to have a trigger as we did have in WWII.

Its time for the US to catch up.