There are some odd mistakes – electricity doesn't snake through the limbs of convulsing individuals, muscle relaxants aren't used to terminate seizures, and the DVLA insists on surrendering your licence for one year after a fit, not two.
Many complain that militias are reluctant to disband and are dragging their feet on surrendering weapons.
The data show that passage of stronger laws on surrendering firearms (like the California law described in the article) and enforcement of existing ones can save lives.
The Axis powers would have mastered the entire Old World and could have let America stew.ANTHONY YOUNGLondonSIR You ask why Hirohito did not kill himself on surrendering if he believed in kokutai and the spirit of Yamato.
The IRA's failure to give a guarantee on surrendering its arms has left Ulster Unionist hard-liners dissatisfied, and leader David Trimble will have his hands full in getting the party behind him.
Reminding himself of Napoleon's dictum: "When one is alone and unarmed, a surrender may be pardoned," he allowed himself, despite his earlier views on surrendering, to be taken prisoner.
