Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!microsoft!fluke!nxs From: nxs@fluke.UUCP (Bruce Golub) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: handgun control Message-ID: <478@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 13:45:10 EST Article-I.D.: tpvax.478 Posted: Thu Dec 13 13:45:10 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Dec-84 03:08:46 EST References: <245@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <268@ccice6.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 56 > > 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 > > > > Go ahead and explain (with a straight face, please) that gun > > control doesn't work in Canada. Or Japan. Or Sweden. Or > > Australia. > > What a fascinating example of propaganda. What about the > countrys that have low handgun death statistics but > don't have handgun control? What about the overall crime > rates in these countrys, and the differences between them. > Are you over simplifying or did you just choose to ignore > any statistics that didn't support your opinion. > > Go ahead and explain (with a straight face, please) why you > left out half the facts > > David Fader > -- > Amphibian Defender Speaking about leaving out half the facts, you (David Fader) left them all out. Question number 1, David: What country has a low handgun death-rate and no gun control. In reference to your statement: >What about the overall crime rates in these countrys,< Question number 2, David: Do you mean to imply that a high handgun death-rate is preferable to other crimes (i.e., trespassing, auto-theft, etc.)? Question number 3, David: Why don't you and the Pro-gun lobby grow-up and out of playing cowboys and indians, or better yet go ask Mr O'Roarke(sp?) and Teto to realize your fantasies and leave the rest of us in peace. (ps. I am not against someone defending themselves with any means that are required. Personally I wouldn't use a gun. I am opposed however, to letting every hairbrained idiot purchase a weapon, with no strings attached, no method of tracing ownership, and way of determining if that person really needs one.) go ahead, reach for it Bruce Golub