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- From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Primitive FireArms
- Followup-To: talk.politics.guns
- Date: 31 Dec 92 23:15:32
- Organization: Intel i960(tm) Architecture
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- Message-ID: <DOCONNOR.92Dec31231532@potato.sedona.intel.com>
- References: <1992Dec31.161255.23102@news.ysu.edu>
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- In-reply-to: ae766@yfn.ysu.edu's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:12:55 GMT
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- ae766@yfn.ysu.edu (David Sanders) writes:
- ] Greetings to all, from Vajk!
- ]
- ] The recent thread about firearms in the SCA, and at events,
- ] caught my attention. Someone asked why firearms make some
- ] people uneasy.
- ]
- ] I live in a town of about 96,000. Over the last three years, we
- ] have had more than 50 homicides per year, including one year
- ] with about 70 (we had had only 19 the year before).
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- Did you forget to say that these were all firearm homicides, or
- do you know that they were ? In the U.S., more people are killed
- with knives than guns, I've read. And yet, people in the
- SCA carry around knives and even swords in great numbers.
-
- I've set the follow-up line to a different newsgroup.
- --
- Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
-