Re: Gun control doesn't work--so what?

"Shaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:47:47 GMT, Clive Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> >On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 22:57:34 +0000, Shaun
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 02:24:29 -0800, "John C. Randolph"
> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Kane wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 02 Dec 2003 06:41:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey C. Dege)
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> >On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:14:39 GMT, Trevor Wilson
> >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>"Bert Hyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >>>> >>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>> >>>
> >>>> >>> >In that sense, it works well.
> >>>> >>>
> >>>> >>> Really? Where?
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>Japan
> >>>> >>The UK
> >>>> >>Australia
> >>>> >>Sweden
> >>>> >>Holland
> >>>> >>Germany
> >>>> >>Every other Western, developed nation (except the US)
> >>>> >>Et al
> >>>> >
> >>>> >Which of those countries saw a decline in violent crime after gun
> >>>> control
> >>>> >was introduced?  None of them that I am familiar with.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hey! Germany.
> >>>>
> >>>> Gun crime dropped.
> >>>>
> >>>> Executions of then rendered helpless citizens did go up just a tad
> >>>> though...6 mill or so.
> >>>
> >>>More like 10 million.  Six Million were Jews, the rest were anyone else
> >>>that the nazis wanted dead.
> >>>
> >>
> >>You forgot to mention the several millions who did in fact have guns,
> >>which totally failed to protect them
> >
> >Facts? Figures? or is this more little White Feather garbage?
> >
> >
> It is in fact a curious piece of gun nut folk law that claims a few
> lightly armed Jewish civilians would have more success in defeating
> Nazi Germany compared to the four years it took the Red Army.

One has to wonder what would have happenenned to the fighters of the Warsaw
Ghetto had they been properly re-supplied and supported from outside of the
ghetto..
They managed to stop and keep at bay the Germans for quite a while with only
the weapons they were able to scrounge.