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From: lat@stcvax.UUCP (Larry Tepper)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: handgun control
Message-ID: <337@stcvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 15:41:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 11 15:41:38 1984
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> From David Fader @ ccice6.UUCP (Hungry Tadpole @ Pool Of Slime)

>> (From original poster, not Hungry)
>> 
>> 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

Dear David,

We are all just dying to hear about those other counties too.  I don't
understand why you expect the original poster to supply the facts to
support your argument.  Whenever I have a point to make, I present
information to support my argument, rather than insisting that the
other person (who disagrees with me anyway) prove my point for me.

If the original poster left out half the facts, you have contributed
none of your own.
-- 
One of the survivors...
{ihnp4 hao philabs sdcrdcf ucbvax!nbires}!stcvax!lat	Larry Tepper
Storage Technology, MD-3T, Louisville, CO 80028		303-673-5435