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!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Guns as Protection Message-ID: <859@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 07:07:07 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.859 Posted: Mon Mar 4 07:07:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 04:20:45 EST References: <> <352@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 > Jeff Shallit: > I posted *my* source. Let me post another. A 1975 study of 1200 > robberies in Chicago showed that less than 1% of robbery victims were > able to use a weapon to resist their assailants. [Dr. Richard > Block, Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, University of > Chicago.] Right. Because Chicago has a fascist gun control law, and the people who could have prevented those 1200 robberies were prevented by assholes like Shallit. --Who called for a "truce" on the subject in net.politics, and then broke it. Let me re-propose it: no subject has been more uselessly over-discussed with the possible exception of abortion. I agreed to shut up to allow other subjects a chance. I'll stay shut up as long as Shallit (in particular) does. Bye! --JoSH