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From: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: handgun control
Message-ID: <585@godot.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 13:58:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 13:58:08 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 05:31:35 EST
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Reply-To: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich)
Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

>There is a poster on my door.  It reads
>
>In 1980, handguns killed
>8 in GREAT BRITAIN
>...
>11,522 in the UNITED STATES
>/Jeff Shallit

I have heard several people say that although the handgun death rate
dropped dramatically in Great Britain since gun control, the overall
murder rate did not drop at all.  Is this statistic correct?  My only
source is hearsay.
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--Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA
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