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Re: Handgun Death Rate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:17:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> Dave Schuler wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
> > 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
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> Maybe you can, but don't tell that to those Japanese schoolchildren...
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 banning handguns would eliminate that
problem.)
Dave!
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