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  1. Xref: sparky ba.politics:7882 ca.politics:10486 talk.politics.guns:25616
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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!SAIL.Stanford.EDU!andy
  4. From: andy@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman)
  5. Subject: Re: Carjackers/Citizens/Life/Guns/Bernhard Goetz
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.010540.24260@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Followup-To: talk.politics.guns
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  9. Organization: Computer Science Department,  Stanford University.
  10. References: <1gvsreINNiv7@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <13700@optilink.COM>
  11. Distribution: ca
  12. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:05:40 GMT
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  14.  
  15. In article <13700@optilink.COM> walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:
  16. >A poor analogy.  Most murderers know their victims to be
  17. >unarmed, most car jackers have no such knowledge.  Most
  18. >murders are crimes of passion, rarely for financial gain.
  19.  
  20. Wrong.  Most murders are by acquaintances, but that doesn't tell us
  21. anything about the motives or the killers.  (After all, thugs have
  22. acquaintances too.)  It turns out that people who kill have a long
  23. history of violence.  It really isn't all that surprising that they
  24. they kill the people who they're around the most, since access
  25. provides both "motive" and opportunity.
  26.  
  27. -andy
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  29.