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From: jim@mcvax.UUCP (Jim McKie)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: handgun control
Message-ID: <382@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 19:39:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 19:39:44 1984
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    > 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