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- From: bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich)
- Subject: Re: More Gun Control
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.190849.831@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 19:08:49 GMT
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- In <1k8kg9INNntn@umbc4.umbc.edu> potler@umbc.edu (Laura Potler) writes:
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- >>A gun is simply a fairly simple mechanical device. Simple.
-
- >brother-in-law worked in the e.r. in a hospital in newark. that "fairly simple
- >mechanical device" was the number one source of his patients.
-
- Did the "fairly-simple mechanical devices" go off by themselves?
-
- Odd that in Switzerland, where every adult male is a member of the militia
- and required to own what we would call an "assault weapon", there is
- virtually NO problem like this. Proliferation of these mechanical devices
- ain't the answer, lp. The sooner you and others realize this, the sooner
- a meaningful dialogue can start to solve the problem of murderous violence
- in this country.
-
- Some ERs get automobile accidents as their number one source of patients.
- Some, no doubt, get farming equipment accidents.
-
- Peeve: My "piercing" was itching pretty bad earlier.
- -Bill, the holy one
-