Re: gun control (what a surprise!)

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From: Eric Williams
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 1994 01:48

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In a previous post, jbarr@eden.com wrote:
: In <CzsxIL.5H0@metronet.com>, lfpowell@metronet.com (Skip Powell) writes:
: >
: >I heard on a radio talk show that more people are killed by hands and feet
: >than guns each year?

: In Texas, we were the first state to mange to kill more people with handguns
: than with cars.

What I heard was that gun deaths were *projected* to exceed auto deaths.
This was accomplished by finding two states out of 48 (Texas and
Louisiana) where gun deaths were decreasing at a lower rate than auto
deaths.  Can anyone with access to the original articles check me on
this?

ref:

Koop, Lundberg "Violence in America: A Public Health Emergency"
JAMA, 1992 267: 3075-76

Massachusetts Medical Society "Current Trands: Firearms-Related
Deaths -- Louisiana and Texas, 1970-1990." Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report, April 3, 1992 41(13):213-15 & 221
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Eric Williams  |  wd6cmu@netcom.com  |  WD6CMU@WD6CMU.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM

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Subject: Re: gun control (what a surprise!)
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