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  2. From: gregm@centauri.unm.edu (greg moritz)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.peeves
  4. Subject: Re: More Gun Control
  5. Date: 23 Jan 1993 06:38:39 GMT
  6. Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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  14. > cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com(A. Jing Hippy) writes:
  15. > >But we don't *need* the guns.  If they weren't around, then that's 1400
  16. > >people that would still be here today.  
  17. > 
  18. donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) responded:
  19. > Thirdly, I imagine (pure speculation) that those people who were killed
  20. > were NOT people who have been trained to handle guns safely.  
  21.  
  22. I don't think that you can translate 1400 deaths by firearms into 1400 less
  23. deaths were the firearms eliminated.  If there were no guns available, how
  24. many of those 1400 would have been shot with bow and arrow or blowguns?  Some
  25. of those 1400 deaths were, no doubt deliberate.  How many of those gunshots
  26. would have been replaced by stabs with something pointy?  etc.
  27.  
  28. > p.s.  Did someone REALLY try to back into a stove with dynamite up their
  29. >       butt at Banta's party?
  30.  
  31.