Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ccice6.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccice5!ccice6!daf From: daf@ccice6.UUCP (David Fader) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: handgun control and causes of violence Message-ID: <292@ccice6.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 11:59:18 EST Article-I.D.: ccice6.292 Posted: Wed Jan 16 11:59:18 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 00:58:40 EST References: <407@whuxl.UUCP> <1173@ut-ngp.UUCP> <710@erix.UUCP> Organization: The Wall Of Fog Lines: 16 > Many people in this debate have suggested that absence of gun control > in the US is not responsible for the number of killings in the US. In other > words, if people in the US didn't have guns there would be more murders > with knives, clubs etc. The implication of this is that the US culture > is more oriented to murders and violence than other Western countries. > > This is a generality which seems to me to be absurd. Could it be that > the iresposible few in the US are more iresponsible than the equivalent > in the Europe? If so why? > > Mike Williams I thought that was obvious. It is because the NRA conditions us to be violent. We should ban handguns, and hacksaws so that long guns can not be cut off. Any legitimate metal work could be done at liscensed metal shops.