OzOne wrote in message ...

You have no clue, My friends who stayed in the police have spoken
about the constant investigations and recovery of illegal and
unlicenced weapons including pistols.
It's an ongoing effort with good results despite what the
sensationalist journalists allude to when they report a few shots
fired at a house somewhere and neglect to report on the investigation
and arrest of the culprits.

I saw something today that surprised me, Oz. Apparently Switzerland and
Israel both require their citizen militia members to take their
fully-automatic weapons home with them, ostensibly in order to have them at
the ready should the militia be called up. On a per capita basis, those
countries have far more automatic weapons than any other country in the
world. Yet neither of those countries have citizens that shoot each other
the way we do in the USA.

This tends to support the argument that the problem here is cultural, not
guns. Americans kill other Americans, and until we address why this is so,
removing guns from the equation may diminish the problem somewhat, but it
will fall far short of solving it.

Max