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Gray Davis, Governor of California, has been sending mixed signals to environmentalists. He emphasized that Resources Agency chief Mary Nichols had gone beyond her authority by withdrawing from court records a state legal brief backing farm interests in an ongoing legal case over water in Central Valley, CA, but his overall aims with regard to environmental protection remain unclear. Not all his appointments to environmentally sensitive positions have been welcomed, and he does not seem to have responded to polls indicating that voters are willing to accept wide-reaching measures to protect the environment.
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It is not right to ban guns, apart from in a very small number of circumstances, according to Dr Garen J. Wintemute of the University of California Davis School of Medicine. He states that he is not opposed to guns. However, he feels that guns should be made safer to prevent fatal accidents. He also believes that access to guns should be made as hard as possible for the perpetrators of intentional fatalities. He suggests that gun violence should be regarded as a public health problem.
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There are around 210 million guns in private hands in the US, of which California accounts for an estimated 26 million. The number of legal gun sales recorded in California in 1999 was 513,419, the highest since 1993. A gun in the home increases the risk of death to occupants by between two and three times, while the risk of suicide rises by five times. There are still 4,500 licensed gun dealers in California, and a gun was used 69% of the time in homicides in California in 1998.
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