RE: Moscow surplus and seized weapons policy

[sec@moscow.com]

> Your points make a lotta sense and a guide to citizen thinking about the
> place of lethal weapons in our lay society. Except for guns for hunting
> purposes and perhaps a small household weapon -- all of which should be
> registered within 24 hours of purchase -- individuals should not have

Hitler, Stalin, Amin, Lenin, Mao,any tyrant you care to name agree 
with you, the population should be unarmed.

> legal access to any other kind of gun w/o law enforcement control. Gun
> clubs and the like can be much better monitored than they are now.  I
> served in WW II (l943-46) and learned how to handle, take apart and secure
> my weapons. Everyone who has a legal right to possess a weapon ought also
> to have formal training from qualified persons. It's interesting that the

ok, how many of us DO and how many of us DON'T? do you know 
what kind of training (if any) I have had? how many people have I 
killed with legaly purchased firearms? 

> two nations having the highest rates of gun-related deaths per year (over
> 500 per million inhabitants, I believe -- I have the data somewhere on my
> shelf) are the USA and Russia. Both also have the highest crime rates in
> the world. We sure have good company!  Isn't it time for a change? Our
> state and national police associations all agree that it is. 

Russia also has extreamly tight gun controls, as does Canada, yet 
Violent crime involving firearms continues to rise, we have 
thousands of laws against drugs, sure made a BIG dent in the drug 
trade. yet in Switzerland (where all millitary age men MUST have a 
firearm) has extreamly little violent crime), please differentiate 
between Violent crime and non-violent crime (or are we going to 
include non violent crime as violent crime as HandGun Control Inc 
etc does?)

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