🚀 go-pugleaf

Garry B. Dormody (gdormody@calvin.stemnet.nf.ca) writes:
> Colin R. Leech <ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
> 
>> Rosco (Roger_Walker@CUEHere.Edmonton.AB.CA) writes:
>> > Still further, what makes you believe that the minority of offenders who use
>> > firearms in their domestic crime, won't turn to weapons that the majority
>> > use, like knives, boots, fists, a stocking, etc.?
>>
>> I'd be quite happy if they did, because there is a *much* better chance of
>> the victim being alive after such an attack. How can you ignore something
>> so obvious?
> 
>         In the last couple of years there were 5 murders here on the
> island portion of Newfoundland that I recall. Two of them involved
> knives, one was done with a car (jilted girl ran over ex-boyfriend),one
> was done with a lead pipe and in the other a guy was basically kicked
> and beaten to death. Guess what, NO GUNS. The score was five out of five
> for the murderers.The victims didn't have a *much* better chance of
> survival. It doesn't take a gun to give an edge of certainty to an act
> of murder. 

OK. Now compare Newfoundland to a similar sized portion of the USA. You
would still have those 5 people killed by other means, *plus* a whole
bunch of other people shot.

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