On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 01:13:25 GMT, Mike Thompson 
wrote:

>Mike, I really doubt it.  I have been following the Aussie situation and
>read the ABS stats.  I also read what the anti-gun crowd had to say. 
>They want the law to stay for a few more years, regardless of the
>results.  After a short while the public will accept the status quo and
>no longer complain.  The good thing is the failure in Australia/New
>Zealand and what seems to be the same failure in England will teach us
>here in USA.  We shouldn't make the same mistakes.


If gun control were REALLY about crime, you'd be right. 
Unfortunately, that's only the excuse. The actual reason is that
gun owners are a vocal minority that's standing in the way
of the statists. Gun shows contribute nada to street crime, 
but their great political meaning places and 99 percent of 
the people there are anti-statist, anti-government utopian. 
They can be neutralized by criminalizing them and their guns.