Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: handgun control Message-ID: <185@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 21:46:02 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.185 Posted: Mon Jan 7 21:46:02 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 04:57:02 EST References: <> <265@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <2223@randvax.UUCP> <2228@randvax.UUCP> <2229@randvax.UUCP> <2230@randvax.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 15 > ... > Look at the numbers...most handgun murders are committed by non-criminals. > ... > > --- das Wrong. The average murderer commits six violent crimes before killing (U. S. Senate study). 65 to 70% of the people arrested for murder have records -- AS DO 40-50% OF THE VICTIMS. The myth of "most murders are family squabbles and barfights" is generally supported on the basis of a 1980 FBI study showing that 51% of murderers were well-known to their victims--but most murders are an adjunct to the drug trade and other underworld activities where the parties involved are "business" associates. --JoSH