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Britain's Hutton inquiry began simply by investigating the suicide of a senior weapons scientist (after he allegedly told a journalist the government had knowingly exaggerated in a dossier that it used to make the case for war), but it has waded further into the excruciating who-said-what-when details of Britain's case for war.
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This was because it came in the middle of an official inquiry into the suicide of David Kelly, an expert on Iraqi weapons at Britain's defence ministry.
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Ms. Peters, who lobbied for stricter gun laws in Australia, credits their newly established 28-day waiting period for a firearm purchase and a ban on semi-automatic weapons for a 50% reduction in homicide and suicide rates.
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