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- From: Larry.Cline@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Larry Cline)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Primitive FireArms
- Message-ID: <726032809.AA00000@therose.pdx.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 08:21:00 GMT
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- In a message to All <12-31-92 18:27> Wilson Heydt wrote:
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- WH> In article <1992Dec31.161255.23102@news.ysu.edu> ae766@yfn.ysu.edu
- WH> (David Sanders) writes:
- WH> >Regardless of the "Guns don't kill people, people kill people"
- WH> >argument, the fact that about (more than?) 1 in 2000 people
- WH> >in my home town were killed with guns each year for the past
- WH> >three years makes people here uneasy. My town has a reputation
- WH> >for violence.
- WH> >A
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- And how many people are stabbed each year in your town? Compare that number
- against the number of people stabbed in the SCA each year and you will
- probaby end up with a nice base number to make comparisons. After all, all
- those people running around at events with those big, sharp,
- stickey-pokies.
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- WH> >Think of this: If 1 in 2000 SCA-folk were murdered each year,
- WH> >how many would that be?
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- WH> Not to make light of a very UNfunny subject....
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- WH> The answer depnds a lot on the question--How many SCAers *are* there?
- WH>
- WH> Just counting the Registry numbers (and using your proportion) we
- WH> lose
- WH> about 11 people a year. By some estimates, we'd lose about 50--the
- WH> same as your home town.
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- WH> --Hal
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- Well that is still to many for this type of thing. I don't think that it is
- a problem (or would be, even with firearms, primitive or otherwise) because
- the SCA is a different culture that his town. And culture makes more of a
- difference that the presence of firearms.
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- Garrick
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