Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: handgun control Message-ID: <168@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 13:57:35 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.168 Posted: Fri Dec 21 13:57:35 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Dec-84 03:12:13 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 40 >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. 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 ...{garfield,lasspvax,linus,cmcl2,seismo}!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe -- 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 ...{garfield,lasspvax,linus,cmcl2,seismo}!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe