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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
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Posted: Tue Jan 15 21:45:12 1985
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Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden
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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