Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ccice2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccice5!ccice2!cjk From: cjk@ccice2.UUCP (Chris Kreilick) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: handgun control Message-ID: <542@ccice2.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 20:13:14 EST Article-I.D.: ccice2.542 Posted: Tue Jan 8 20:13:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 01:24:46 EST References: <245@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <268@ccice6.UUCP> <162@mhuxr.UUCP> <> <260@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: CCI Central Engineering, Rochester, NY Lines: 21 > 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 Jeff. The Guttenheimer report (don't have it at hand), pointed out that Wayne didn't say anything about being killed. P.S. Do you have any good recipes for onion soup? -- TBAOTN