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Subject: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 14:18:33 EST
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> > > Last year, Handguns killed
> > > 	10,728 in the united states
> > 
> > Fact is, Handguns never kill anyone.
> > People kill People, and they use a variety of tools to do so.
> > -- 
> > {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny
> 
> The question raised by the numbers given in the original
> letter, most of which you have left out, is whether these
> People who kill People would have done so if they did
> not have access to handguns.  Studies say no; what do you say?
> 
> David Albert -- ihnp4!ut-sally!harvard!albert (ARPAnet)

  The answer is not a strict 'yes' or 'no' to this.  The studies
that I read (some 3 years ago) show that in situations where a
person has a knife instead of a gun, that person is only 1/5th as
likely to kill someone.  The study attempted to even out the
differences so that the 20% figure was not for an apples-and-oranges
type of comparison.

Bob Devine