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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: handgun control
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Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 13:57:35 EST
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>From: jim@mcvax.UUCP (Jim McKie)
>Newsgroups: net.politics
>Subject: Re: handgun control
>Message-ID: <382@mcvax.UUCP>
>
>    > Obviously the great majority of handgun owners harm no one, else there
>    > would be many more than 22,000 handgun deaths each year.
>
>    > Scott Renner
>    > {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!renner
>
>Forgive me, but is that a REAL figure of twenty-two THOUSAND deaths per
>year from handguns?
>
>I find that a rather large number. Until two years ago I lived all my life
>in Britain, and I never saw a handgun, except in museums. What do you use
>one for, except killing someone?
>
>Jim McKie    Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam    mcvax!jim


Well said!  Handguns have no other purpose.

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The Polymath
(Jerry Hollombe)                  Opinions expressed here are my own
Transaction Technology, Inc.      and unrelated to anyone else's.
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA  90405
United States
(213) 450-9111, ext. 2483
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