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Subject: 
Re: Handgun Death Rate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:36:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> Well, I know your post must have been a joke by the tone you took, but.....
> 
> Outlaw handguns, and only outlaws will have them.  And all that would do is make
> rifles and shotguns "the firearm of choice in violent crimes and murders" sooner
> or later.

It's considerable harder to conceal a shotgun or rifle.  My 12-gauge is
considerably better for "home defense" than a handgun, anyway, and for the
paranoid, a high-powered rifle is better for sniping at Guv'mint Troopers.

Any idiot can point a gun in any case - let's get back to Sabres where the
trained can terrorize the untrained!

> 
> I don't own a single gun.  YET.  But don't try to legislate me out of my right
> to own one (one of the reasons I'll move out of CA sooner or later is all the
> gun legislation the bastards keep trying to pass).


Texas awaits you!  ;-)

Bruce



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  Re: Handgun Death Rate
 
Well, I know your post must have been a joke by the tone you took, but..... Outlaw handguns, and only outlaws will have them. And all that would do is make rifles and shotguns "the firearm of choice in violent crimes and murders" sooner or later. I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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