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Subject: Re McDonald's (San Diego) Massacre
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Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 10:41:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 10:41:02 1984
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>>  The Nazis had strict gun control and I am sure the Russians do too.
>>      Don Steiny


Many -- maybe most -- countries have stricter gun control than we do.
The English, Scandinavians, and other European countries, for example,
have very strict gun control.  So do the Japanese.

The Russians seem to have a good school system, and so do we.  Should we
give up our good school system because the Russians have one too?

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Someone else on this subject a few days ago said the murderer
probably would have been licensed to carry all kinds of guns because
he was a security guard.  It should be the other way around.  It
should be that no one should be allowed to become a security guard
unless he is licensed to carry guns.  Since the murderer seems to
have had a psychiatric record, it might be a law requiring a
suitable psychiatric record to own guns would have weeded him out.  But
psychiatry being what it is, and the difficulties of enforcement in this
country being what they are, this probably wouldn't have worked either.
Still, such a procedure might catch a few.  It might have caught this one.
It might be worth a try.

Gordon Fisher