Other nations' restrictive gun laws cut down on shooting deaths

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http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/article_fbdcca11-0e03-545a-9f90-8d15edf354ab.html

The politicians of Arizona decided that Jared Lee Loughner was a decent law-abiding citizen. As such, they determined that he deserved to be able to legally purchase virtually any type of firearm he desired and to legally carry that firearm in a wide variety of public and private spaces.

So Loughner legally bought a gun designed to kill many people extremely rapidly and he carried the gun legally. He was carrying his gun early Jan. 8 when he was stopped by police.

It was only after he started shooting at innocent people that he stopped being a decent law-abiding citizen.

In all other high-income democracies, it would have been very difficult for Loughner legally to have obtained his weapon. Some of these countries have very few private guns (e.g., Japan, United Kingdom), while others have fairly many (e.g., Canada, Australia, Israel, Switzerland, Finland), but have more restrictive gun laws than the United States.

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