Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site godot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!godot!bruce 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 Article-I.D.: godot.585 Posted: Fri Dec 7 13:58:08 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 05:31:35 EST References: <245@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Reply-To: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich) Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 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. -- --Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA ihnp4!godot!bruce, bjn@mit-mc.arpa ... soon to be bruce@godot.arpa