Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!gargoyle!shallit From: shallit@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Shallit) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: handgun control Message-ID: <245@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 19:08:22 EST Article-I.D.: gargoyle.245 Posted: Wed Dec 5 19:08:22 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 06:35:32 EST Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 23 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 God bless America. Go ahead and explain (with a straight face, please) that gun control doesn't work in Canada. Or Japan. Or Sweden. Or Australia. Go ahead. /Jeff Shallit