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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] While I agree with Simon in principle, I can't resist this chance for a dig or two: a)If if hadn't been little kids, there'd have been far fewer (if any) deaths. One stab wound from a charging psycho usually won't kill an adult, but a seven or eight year-old is a different story altogether. b)The guy was stopped, and will be presumably committed to rehabilitation of some nature. There wasn't a stand-off, nor a hostage-taking, and the police weren't needed to stop the guy. c)In Japan last year, there were a grand total of nine fatal stabbings last year. 9 out of 130 million people. Those are pretty good numbers. But the gun lobby tells us that when strict gun controls are imposed, deranged individuals will switch to knives and produce similar body counts. So if Japan dropped its stiff gun controls, we'd see 9 deaths from deranged shooters a year instead? Somehow I think that Japan's gun laws are saving more lives than that. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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