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From: prg@mgweed.UUCP (Phil Gunsul)
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Subject: Re: Lethal danger - my retirement speech. (unabridged)
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Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 11:40:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  5 11:40:31 1985
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[Kill the bug!!]

Well Charles, you almost have me convinced to melt down my guns.
I thought I had better check on your number first though, since
it seemed a little high.  Since it is already illegal to plan
to kill someone (we already have a law for that!) I'll take it
that you are really talking about accidental deaths.  According
to the National Safety Council (1980 figures {the year you used}),
drunk drivers killed 26,300 people, but since we aren't talking
just killing large numbers of people but specifically killing
people with guns, I won't go into that.  Nor will we take on
the next highest killer, falls.  I haven't figured out yet
what organization we can join to outlaw falls in the house,
but there just has to be one, since 12,300 people were killed
by falls.  Humm..  The next one on the list is drowning.  I'm
working on my poster right now to go out and protest swimming
pools!  Lets see here, the next one down is "fire, burns" with
5,500 people killed.  Now there is another miserable way to
die.  Got to outlaw matches if it's the last thing we do!
At least we should register them!  Finger greping further down
the page we find the next killer...  Poisons.  4,300 people
were accidentally poisoned.  Should be a law against that, or
maybe there is.  We're getting close now, here is the next
killer, suffocation by ingested objects.  That killed 3,100
people in 1980.  I say we get rid of McDonalds right now!
And while we're at it let's take out Wendys.  Ah ha!  Here it
is!  Death by firearms, 1,800 people.  Now don't get me
wrong Charles, that is still a sad statistic, but let's put
it in perspective.


Phil Gunsul -- AT&T Information Systems -- (312) 859-4485