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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.rec
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 05:22:28 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)

I say the numbers ain't worth the paper they're printed on unless you
have the associated sociological study of who pulled the trigger, and
what their previous criminal record was.
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