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Colonel Olrik
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Witness wrote: Who said that was the goal?
I supposed it would be useful to difficult gun access to criminals.
Witness wrote: Unbased and ridiculous claims.
Number of school shootings in the U.S Vs E.U: U.S wins. Where do teenage boys get weapons?
Witness wrote: I'd like to see your figures for that. As far as I know, every country that has confiscated firearms experienced a significant increase in crime.
Check this sites:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/guns/ ... mance.html
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazin ... story.html

If you choose to not believe the numbers, then you find out information contesting them.

I didn't manage to get a tabel specifying the exact number and type of gun deaths in the E.U, but did find out one with more actual values for the U.S:
www.bradycampaign.org/press/related_documents/ 112901a.pdf
To be honest, I'd rather do away with all mandatory firearm registration and background checks. The mandatory firearm registration allows any tyrannical government to know who has a gun and who doesn't while background checks take up a lot of departmental resources that could be used in catching real criminals.
Well, that's an opinion. I don't agree, but you may be right in the control part.
I assure you we value democracy in Europe. A lot. And we have weapons control and.. Identity cards (with the exception of the U.K).
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Obviously, you're completely correct about the training.

Still, 63 is still an extremelly low number by U.S standards

And I don't believe the numbers to vary greatly in other countries of the E.U
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Don't you get what I'm saying?
There where more shootings in a Country where its OUTRIGHT Illeagle for people to own hand-guns than in a country where the only real restrictions is the amount of training you have to go through(Remeber the Swiss Army requires that you keep a weapon on you at all times and an Assult Rifle at your home)

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Mr Bean wrote:Don't you get what I'm saying?
Sorry, I thought I had been clear. I agree with you.
The swiss method is better than in the U.S or E.U.

I just pointed out afterwards that, as it is,I prefer the E.U situation than that of the U.S.

But I don't think It would be easy to imitate the swiss. They have a very strong tradition on the subject and it's a very rich country without the kind of social problems wich affect others. I shiver thinking of London with a assault rifle in every home
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But I don't think It would be easy to imitate the swiss. They have a very strong tradition on the subject and it's a very rich country without the kind of social problems wich affect others. I shiver thinking of London with a assault rifle in every home
Prehaps the first month would be bad but I see smooth sailing after that :twisted:

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