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[Reese]

At 05:45 PM 3/16/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
 >
 >In the FBI stats that came out the majority of police officers killed are
 >killed with their own gun? They'd probably been better served by a
 >stun-vest...
 >
 >Perhaps we should take guns away from them, then those fine officers would
 >probably have lived longer.
 >
 >If you can't trust a weapon to a individual, how can you trust it to a
 >group of individuals?

England serves as a fine example here;
With an armed populace and a disarmed police force :: low crime rate
With a disarmed populace and an armed police force :: high crime rate.

Read'em & weep, Phill.

Reese