Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ccice6.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccice5!ccice6!daf From: daf@ccice6.UUCP (Hungry Tadpole) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: handgun control Message-ID: <268@ccice6.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 13:03:42 EST Article-I.D.: ccice6.268 Posted: Sat Dec 8 13:03:42 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 05:49:57 EST References: <245@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Pool Of Slime Lines: 28 > There is a poster on my door. It reads > In 1980, handguns killed > 77 people in JAPAN > 8 in GREAT BRITAIN > 24 in SWITZERLAND > 8 in CANADA > 23 in ISRAEL > 18 in SWEDEN > 4 in AUSTRALIA > 11,522 in the UNITED STATES > > Go ahead and explain (with a straight face, please) that gun > control doesn't work in Canada. Or Japan. Or Sweden. Or > Australia. What a fascinating example of propaganda. What about the countrys that have low handgun death statistics but don't have handgun control? What about the overall crime rates in these countrys, and the differences between them. Are you over simplifying or did you just choose to ignore any statistics that didn't support your opinion. Go ahead and explain (with a straight face, please) why you left out half the facts David Fader -- Amphibian Defender