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Re: Allan Rock sold you out. was: Illegal Guns

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From: Barry Glasgow
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <DK6pp3.5G7@freenet.carleton.ca>, ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) writes:
 
|> > A simple glance at a chart of "death by" will show you that death by
|> > firearms is way at the bottom (I believe on a par with death by lightning).
|> 
|> Because our guns laws are fairly strict already. Now look at the US stats.
|> I believe firearms are the *leading* cause of death among certain
|> demographic groups (young coloured men, for example) 

You need to break away from that anti-gun thinking.
Despite HCI claims that young innocents are being killed by guns,
a deeper analysis will show that young criminals are in fact
being killed by other young criminals.

Fixation on the tools does not even begin to address the problem.


- outstripping even
|> cars. Now compare us to Western European countries. There is certainly a
|> correlation between the deaths by guns and the severity of the gun laws.

Western European countries like, maybe,  Northern Ireland ?


Barry
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From: glasgow@bnr.ca (Barry Glasgow)
Subject: Re: Allan Rock sold you out. was: Illegal Guns
Date: 1996/01/02
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