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<In article <3b5lm7$epg@boris.eden.com> jbarr@eden.com writes:
<In <CzsxIL.5H0@metronet.com>, lfpowell@metronet.com (Skip Powell) writes:
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<>I heard on a radio talk show that more people are killed by hands and feet
<>than guns each year?

	Unlikely. Possibly the claim was that more people are 
	killed with the "feet and or fists" tool than so-called
	"assault weapons" each year in the US....a claim that
	is true, btw.

<In Texas, we were the first state to mange to kill more people with handguns
<than with cars.  At least the first state since auto travel became 
<commonplace.
 
	A droll, but meaningless statistic, since it includes
	suicides. The unspoken assumption is that some sort 
	of "magic wand" law dissolving handguns would make
	suicidal persons "all better" as well.

<Rumor has it that the new Conservative power bloc is intent on changing all 
<that: they intend to raise the speed limit and do away with DWI law.

	Another droll strawman; there are no studies that show
	speed limits have much to do with motor vehicle
	accident and/or death rates that I know of.

	Speed *differentials* between motor vehicles are much
	more serious and probably account for far more accidents;
	that means that the little old granny lady poking along
	the Interstate at 40 is just as likely to cause an
	accident as the mythical "conservative power broker"
	tooling along at 80.