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 From: penny@pen.rhys 
  
 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:16:43 GMT, "pcourterelle"  
 wrote: 
  
 > 
 >"Ladies Choice"  wrote in message 
 >news:%_Bwf.46787$km.26769@edtnps89... 
 > 
 >>> 
 >>>Just as a lot of booze went South in the 20's you can bet guns will 
 >>>continue 
 >>>to flow North if there is even a small black market for them. 
 >>> 
 >> 
 >> Indeed, but that isn't really an argument against banning guns. 
 > 
 >So the efficacy of the law banning handguns really isn't an issue since it 
 >won't prevent them from flowing north? By all means, place your finger in 
 >the dike while its walls crumble around you and call it success. Banning 
 >handguns is a base electroral ploy and nothing more. 
 > 
 >pc 
  
  One study found that the U.S. murder rate without handguns was 
 roughly equivalent to that of Canada, while the murder rate with 
 handguns was 14.5 times greater. 
  
 Another study found homicide of a family member was 2.7 times more 
 likely if the home had a firearm than if it did not. The same study 
 found suicide was nearly 5 times more likely in homes with one or more 
 firearms. 
  
 No, I don't have the studies, but I do have a reference: 
  
 http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-12-15/35811.html 
  
 Penny 
  
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