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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Handgun Death Statistics - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 25-Oct-83 21:26:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 25 21:26:40 1983
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uiucdcs!renner    Oct 25 20:47:00 1983

/***** uiucdcs:net.flame / pyuxnn!srm /  9:06 am  Oct 24, 1983 */
In 1980, handguns killed...

	77 people in Japan,
	 8 in Great Britain,
	24 in Switzerland,
	 8 in Canada,
	23 in Israel,
	18 in Sweden,
	 4 in Australia,
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Those who quote these statistics almost never mention that Switzerland 
*requires* every male between ages 18 and 50 to keep a military-issue rifle
at home.  And if they have any handgun control laws, I haven't heard of them.

Anyway, here's your chance to inform me.  What are the handgun control laws
in Switzerland?  Anybody really *know* ?

Scott Renner
...pur-ee!uiucdcs!renner