>The National Anxiety Center Warning Signs!

from:
>http://www.anxietycenter.com/warning.htm

>While Americans are deluged with news of homicides, gun deaths dropped 2l%
>from 1993 to 1997, the lowest level in more than 30 years. Firearm related
>injuries fell 4l% according to figures provided by the Centers for Disease
>Control and Prevention. 2000 looks to be a year in which attacks on the
>2nd Amendment right to own guns will increase, led by the White House. The
>claim is that guns and crime are synonymous, but serious crime in the U.S.
>continued its free fall during the first six months of 1999. Murder was
>down 13%, compared with the same period in 1998. Property crimes and
>burglary dropped 14%. Overall, violent crime was down 8% in the first
>months of 1999.
>
>The continued cry for the registration and increased control of guns,
>despite an estimated 20,000 laws currently on the books, ignores a 1996
>study by the University of Chicago Law School that analyzed crime data
>from every U.S. county over l5 years and found that violent crime fell
>after states made it legal to carry concealed weapons. Those that did,
>reduced their murder rates by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by
>7%, and robberies by 3%, A 1997 Justice Department study found that as
>many as 1.5 million people use a gun in self-defense every year. It is
>estimated this saves society up to $38.9 billion annually.
>
>While the killings in Columbine High School were a major story, deadly
>violence in U.S. schools has decreased in recent years and, despite
>continued news of isolated school incidents, 1998-99 may prove to be one
>of the safest school years this decade. Data from the Department of
>Justice and National School Safety Center supports the fact that schools
>remain among the safest places for children. Chances were approximately
>one in a million that a youngster would die violently at school.