A ban on military-style assault weapons in the United States is to lapse on Monday, 10 years after it was passed. The move means that ordinary citizens will be allowed to keep heavy assault weapons in their homes.
I mentioned in another thread there were 16,204 murders in the USA in 2002, about 11,000 by gunfire (an average year) versus the 1000 American soldiers who died in Iraq.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3644044.stm
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