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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="0a9b85a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Bev and Jim Winsness</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bev and Jim Winsness"><B>home</B></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="0aad2b83.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="political_actions.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Political Actions"><B>Back to Political Action</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="drug_test.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Drug Test"><B>Drug Test I'm for!</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="unicef_photo.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Unicef Photo"><B>UNICEF PHOTO</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="war_and_profit.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="war_and_profit"><B>War and Profit:</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="war_and_profit.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="war_and_profit"><B>a soldiers view!</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="republican_vs_democrat.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="republican_vs_democrat"><B>Republicans vs Dem's</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="cia_leak.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CIA_leak"><B>CIA Leak - BUSH</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="wilson_for_president.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wilson for President"><B>Don Wilson for President</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="islamic_threat.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Islamic Threat"><B>Islamic Threat</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="immigration.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Immigration"><B>Immigration</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lrwma.com/bev-jim/politics/america070808.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lrwma.com/bev-jim/politics/am"><B>USA Politics - what's wrong with us?</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="iraq_situation.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Iraq Situation"><B>What's next with Iraq and Setting Dates</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="iraq_situation.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Iraq Situation"><B>Why Iraq does not like us.</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="iraq.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Iraq"><B>The Real Cost of Iraq!</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="edwards.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="edwards">Jim Winsness meets John Edwards</A></div> <div> <A HREF="matthews.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="matthews">Bob Matthews meets Bill Clinton</A></div> <div> <A HREF="guns.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="guns">Guns in America</A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Guns in America</I></div> <bR> <div> Gun-control simply makes sense.  Those that argue against it simply must not have seen the statistics.  From an article in the Anderson Independent Mail here in South Carolina - an area where people love their guns:</div> <div> "Stricter gun-control laws work in every other country on the planet, and they will work here. According to 2004 data from the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey, the United States accounts for 9.42 gun deaths for every 100,000 people.  In England -- which allows no firearms -- the rate is a minuscule 0.30.  And in Australia, which has banned only major assault weapons, the rate is 1.71."</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>For the full report go to   </B><A HREF="http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/"><B>SMALL ARMS SURVEY</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/year_b_pdf/2001/2001SASCh6_summary_en.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas"><B>Click here for the best presentation I found from that orgaization.</B></A></div> <div> Paul Helmke, a former Republican mayor and president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence stated "It is harder to get a job at McDonald's than it is to buy a handgun."</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="150c4450.jpg" border=0 width="196" height="325" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> What did a 24 year old woman need a .357 and 300 bullets for?</div> <div> Now they are in the hands of someone even crazier.</div> <div> And this makes sense to someone???</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>