Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!pertec!kontron!cramer 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 Article-I.D.: kontron.334 Posted: Fri Jul 5 13:52:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jul-85 11:12:50 EDT References: <484@gargoyle.UUCP> <7800340@inmet.UUCP><516@unc.UUCP> <298@mit-vax.UUCP> Distribution: net.politics Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 13 > 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.