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Subject: Re: Re: handgun control
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Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 01:27:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 31 01:27:11 1984
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> From what I have read, many find that handguns can also be used to:
> 
> 4. Threaten people who are about to harm harm you, without hurting them.
> 5. Kill someone who wants to rape you.
> 6. Kill someone who is about to kill you.
> 
> etc. etc. etc.
> 
> Does anyone on the
> net have access to statistics to answer the following questions?
> 
> 	1. How many gun deaths per year occur in the US?
> 
> 	2. How many are criminal and how many are accidental?
> 
> 	3. How many of each of the above two categories are
> 	   caused by handguns, and how many by other types of guns?
> 
> 	4. For accidental gun deaths, how many of the deaths
> 	   happened in circumstances where the gun-wielder had
> 	   no training in handling guns?
> 
> 	5. For criminal gun deaths, are there any estimates of
> 	   how they would decline under strict gun control?
> 
> 	6. For both categories of gun deaths, are there any
> 	   good demographic or other predictors (age, sex,
> 	   income, gun club membership, veteran status) of
> 	   which people are most likely to be involved in
> 	   gun deaths?  (As perpetrators, not victims.)

Let me add some more:

	7. How often do people actually succeed in defending themselves
	   from attacks with handguns?
	
	8. In those cases where they try and fail, how often is the
	   effect of the attack made significantly worse (by the attacker
	   getting mad, getting the gun, etc) ?
	
	9. Taking these two things into account, are handguns really 
	   effective ways of defending onesself?

		Wayne