control contributed to the mass extermination of undesirables in germany, there is a great book by stephen halpert, called gun control -- i highly recommend it. the person i am standing in for today, wrote these articles -- and a similar one for don case on gun control and genocide. much has been written about australia's draconian gun control laws that went into effect in the 1990s. he likes to use this for the reduction of violent crime -- after the confiscation of many kinds of firearms. however, there is one inconsistency in this point of view. crime rates also dropped and have been following in the united states during the same time. gun rights people like to talk about gun sales and the concealed carry law, and the majority of the states. and the intergenerational effect of lip -- liberalized abortion that took place earlier. to account for at least part of the reduction of the crime rate. there is just one problem and that is that australia liberalized abortion laws at the same time that america did. so if the theory is that abortion in the 1970s cold enough people from the population of fu