Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!jim 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 Article-I.D.: mcvax.382 Posted: Wed Dec 19 19:39:44 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 01:45:59 EST References: <245@gargoyle.UUCP> <29200180@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 15 > 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