Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!myunive From: myunive@nsc.UUCP (Jay Zelitzky) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: handgun control Message-ID: <2142@nsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 05:36:48 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2142 Posted: Thu Jan 3 05:36:48 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:22:54 EST References: <245@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <268@ccice6.UUCP> <478@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> <276@ccice6.UUCP> Reply-To: myunive@nsc.UUCP (Jay Zelitzky) Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 16 Summary: In article <276@ccice6.UUCP> daf@ccice6.UUCP (Hungry Tadpole) writes: >> Question number 1, David: What country has a low handgun death-rate and no >> gun control. > >Israel. This is incorrect, Israel has very strict gun control. Many people in Israel have guns but they have very strict laws on who may have them and how people get them. Also their gun deathrate is not low relative to most European countries, only relative to the US which has an extremely high murder rate. Jay {hplabs,decwrl,ihnp4}!nsc!myunive If drivers must have licenses, only outlaws will drive without licenses.