"A new study just came up with this..the states with the most gun laws have the fewest gun related deaths. The states with the fewest gun laws have the most gun related deaths. Most laws? Massachusettes..the fewest laws? Louisiana."

Are you talking per capita? Vermont is, I believe, the only state in the union with no handgun carry restriction or permit requirement at all, concealed or not. And we have the third lowest per capita rate of violent crime in the country, after the two Dakotas.

"OK MOses, what do you say to that? Its a common but eroneous belief that prohibition didnt work..actually, it cut comsumption of alcohol by over 90%."

It also made it fashionable to break the law, thus setting the stage for the drug culture. And it made sure that a lot of what was consumed was poison, so I doubt that the percentage of people killed by alcohol went down as much as the consumption rate.

Peter.