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From: shallit@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Shallit)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: handgun control
Message-ID: <260@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Jan-85 10:58:43 EST
Article-I.D.: gargoyle.260
Posted: Tue Jan  1 10:58:43 1985
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Reply-To: shallit@gargoyle.UUCP (Jeff )
Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science
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Summary: 

In article <> faustus@ucbcad.UUCP writes:
>It's much worse in
>most cases to be stabbed than shot, so maybe giving the criminals guns
>so that they don't have to use knives is a good idea...
>
>	Wayne

This is TOTALLY false.  The Zimring report (sorry, don't have it at hand)
shows that you are 5 times more likely to die from a handgun attack
than from a knife attack.
/Jeff