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- From: ae766@yfn.ysu.edu (David Sanders)
- Subject: Re: Primitive FireArms
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:12:55 GMT
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- Greetings to all, from Vajk!
-
- The recent thread about firearms in the SCA, and at events,
- caught my attention. Someone asked why firearms make some
- people uneasy.
-
- I live in a town of about 96,000. Over the last three years, we
- have had more than 50 homicides per year, including one year
- with about 70 (we had had only 19 the year before).
-
- Regardless of the "Guns don't kill people, people kill people"
- argument, the fact that about (more than?) 1 in 2000 people
- in my home town were killed with guns each year for the past
- three years makes people here uneasy. My town has a reputation
- for violence.
-
- Think of this: If 1 in 2000 SCA-folk were murdered each year,
- how many would that be? An alarming number, but such a rate
- occurs here. To bring a gun, openly, to an SCA event here
- would be to invite repression of the SCA for years to come.
- As if we didn't have enough troubles already. And the SCA
- certainly has its share of loonies, or perhaps more than its
- share.
-
- I do agree that local conditions should play a large part
- in the decision to allow/ban firearms at a particular event.
-
- Vajk
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