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Subject: Re: Guns in Switzerland
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Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 02:32:01 EDT
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To: harvard!wanginst!davis@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU

  My point was not that Switzerland is an ideal society, but that
plentiful and available guns and ammunition do not automatically
result in a high crime rate.
  Some of the anti-gun nuts would have you believe that the mere
presense of weapons turns people into crazed killers, and that the
mere absense of weapons will cause people to live harmoniously.
  Any example of people living together peacefully in the presense
of weapons, and any example of people at eachother's throats in the
absense of weapons, is evidence against that simplistic world view.
                                                              ...Keith

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