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Re: Handgun Death Rate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:59:40 GMT
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Dave Schuler wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > It could be argued that handgun/gun ownership actually restricts freedoms. I
> > would feel a little oppressed if I knew that behind the twitching curtains
> > in my area lurked a potential gun. Or if during an argument in a bar between
> > two strangers a gun could be pulled.
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> I don't know if that's a tenable stance; one could as easily argue that a
> knife-wielding madman lurks in the bushes, but that doesn't mean we should
> outlaw knives *or* bushes. The only material difference between a gun and a
> knife (or a club, or whatever) is the fact that it's a ranged weapon. I
> can, under most circumstances, run away from a guy with a knife
Maybe you can, but don't tell that to those Japanese schoolchildren...
--
Tom Stangl
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| (...) Cute. But the point remains that more deaths are caused yearly by handguns than by stabbings, and in any case multiply-fatal stabbings are rare, and certainly don't often involve the same number of victims as a shooting spree. (Again--not that (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Doesn't it disturb you that a guy with a knife killing eight Japanese schoolchildren makes worldwide news, and yet mass murders in the US often barely get a mention beyond local news? Doesn't that tell you something about this country? I would (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Handgun Death Rate
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| (...) I don't know if that's a tenable stance; one could as easily argue that a knife-wielding madman lurks in the bushes, but that doesn't mean we should outlaw knives *or* bushes. The only material difference between a gun and a knife (or a club, (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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