Re: Question for the Americans (was Storage & Transportation)
From: Jeff Stone <gfstone@s...>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 17:45:50 -0400
Subject: Re: Question for the Americans (was Storage & Transportation)
>Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 15:00:32 -0600
>To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>From: Jeff Stone <gfstone@sisna.com>
>Subject: Re: Question for the Americans (was Storage & Transportation)
>
>> We only kill
>>20,000 people a year with them. I'm not particularly anit-gun either,
but
>>I live here and it makes me sick.
>>
>>
>>Jerry McVicker
>>
>>"Don't worry soldier, weapons will be available in a moment."
>>
>>Blackwind and Raddix Gaming
>>http://www.imagixx.net/~bnrgames
>>bnrgames@imagixx.net
>>
>
>According to the National Safety Council, Accidental Facts 1992
Edition,
Itasca, IL., page 32, the combined total gun deaths, which included
murders,
justifiable homicides (self defense), suicides, and accidents for each
year was:
>1910 1900
>1920 2700
>1930 3200
>1940 2375
>1950 2174
>1960 2334
>1970 2406
>1980 1955
>1990 1400
>
Correction: the figures above listed are for accidental firearms deaths
only. I misread the data. An unforgivable mistake on my part. In any
event please disregard this entirely as this has no place in this group.
I
apologize for getting caught up in the heat of the subject.
J. Stone
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