Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site chalmers.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!enea!chalmers!johnsson From: johnsson@chalmers.UUCP (Thomas Johnsson) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.rec Subject: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA Message-ID: <166@chalmers.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 21:45:12 EST Article-I.D.: chalmers.166 Posted: Tue Jan 15 21:45:12 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 06:47:26 EST References: <2974@allegra.UUCP> <1912@sun.uucp> Reply-To: johnsson@chalmers.UUCP (Thomas Johnsson) Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.politics:6780 net.rec:204 In article <1912@sun.uucp> sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) writes: >> >> 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 That may well be so. But a Nervous Human Being behaves the same way wherever he/she are; and is a weapon is available in a nervous situation, it is likely to be used. A handgun is an unusually effective way of killing the other guy. The figures speak for themselves. -- Thomas Johnsson ..decvax!mcvax!enea!chalmers!johnsson Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden