Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: rebuttal to Hall and Stewart re: Gun Control Message-ID: <918@topaz.ARPA> Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 07:24:05 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.918 Posted: Sat Mar 9 07:24:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 07:42:16 EST References: <> <352@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <> <359@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 18 > Shallit > > Both J. Storrs Hall and Mr. Stewart have attempted to use the above > argument, claiming that this is an argument "for gun control" since > Chicago has a restrictive handgun law. > > This, of course, is nonsense, since the law that both Hall and Stewart > refer to (which put a "freeze" on the ability to register firearms > in the city) was passed in *1982*. It seems unlikely this could > have had much effect on a study done in *1975*. > > Jeffrey Shallit Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that Chicago has a long history of repressive gun laws--indeed, it has had to create special separate courts to handle gun-law violations. --JoSH