Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!gargoyle!shallit From: shallit@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Shallit) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: handgun control Message-ID: <260@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Jan-85 10:58:43 EST Article-I.D.: gargoyle.260 Posted: Tue Jan 1 10:58:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 00:51:00 EST References: <245@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <268@ccice6.UUCP> <162@mhuxr.UUCP> <> Reply-To: shallit@gargoyle.UUCP (Jeff ) Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 11 Summary: 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