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 From: sly_bacon@hotmail.com 
  
 >> Freddie wrote: 
 >> Don't try to be logical, you'll confuse them. 
  
 >> They had one of the heads of the Canadian Firearms lobby being 
 >> interviewed on CTV and it was laughable.  He first tried to tell everyone 
 >> that gun control didn't work in the USA and wouldn't work in Canada 
 >> because the US cities that tried it still had a high rate of gun crime, 
 >> ignoring the basic fact that it wasn't a country wide ban subject to 
 >> customs inspections and other restraints tougher than simply banning hand 
 >> guns in a city but still having them legal in a community next door. 
 >> Even the interviewer was shaking his head and when the firearms 
 >> advocate's logic was challenged, he had no rebuttal at all and changed 
 >> the subject. 
  
 >"Andrew"  wrote  Perhaps you would like to consider 
 >England or Australia, both with recent full gun bans. The last I heard 
 >violent crime was up 300% in Australia and England is now contemplating 
 >banning "pointy things". 
  
 That would be a good thing. 
 It would mean they will have to ban all those stupid pricks who infest 
 Parliament. 
 You know, the ones with the pointy heads. 
  
 -- 
 Cheers. 
 Alex C. 
 There are 12,000,000 sheep in Ontario. 
 Problem is 9,000,000 of them think they are people. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)