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From: bellas@ttidcb.UUCP (Pete Bellas)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Guns as Protection
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 14:37:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 26 14:37:45 1985
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There seems to be a lot	of statistics thrown about here	over
how many people	are killed by guns and how many	use guns to
protect	themselves.  In	going through my 1984 "Book of Lists"
I found	the following numbers.

In the US in 1984:

Each day 63 people are killed by someone with a	handgun.
Each day 620 people use	a handgun to scare/capture/kill	an attacker.

I personaly don't think that statistics have any place in
the discussion of gun ownership(although they do speak for
themselves).  Private ownership	of guns	is necessary if	we
want to	continue living	in a free society.

	    -Pete-