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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the NRA
Message-ID: <334@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 13:52:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  5 13:52:34 1985
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> In article <516@unc.UUCP> oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver) writes:
> >In article  csdf@mit-vax.UUCP () writes:
> >>It is impossible for untrained people to kill with their bare pinkies.
> >
> >As a pathologist, I can tell you that this is simply untrue.
> 
> I stand corrected. I should have said IMPROBABLE. I suppose you have
> many stories of people being mugged at "pinky-point"?
> 
The U.S. Department of Justice did a study a year or two ago that found
that only 8% of all crimes against people involved a weapon of any sort.
The majority of crimes against people involved bare hands and the threat
of force.