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- From: kaldis@romulus.rutgers.edu (Theodore A. Kaldis)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: Bad cops - a perfect example
- Message-ID: <Dec.26.08.10.58.1992.9575@romulus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 13:10:58 GMT
- References: <1gt8oaINN53r@transfer.stratus.com> <75818@apple.apple.COM> <1992Dec20.210743.26613@ms.uky.edu> <75837@apple.apple.COM>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- In article <75837@apple.apple.COM> earlw@Apple.COM (Earl Wallace) writes:
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- > Stephen D. Grant:
- >> Earl Wallace:
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- >>> Could this happen?
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- No.
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- >>> over 10 cops a day are killed in the US every day [...]
-
- >> Let's see, that would be over 3,560 police killed each year [...]
- ^^^^^[actually 3652.522]
- >> Do you have a source for this claim?
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- > It's just a possible scenario.
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- No it's not -- it's a _CONTRIVED_ scenario.
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- > There is nothing I have to prove because I made it up.
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- Yes there is. You have to prove (or at least reasonably demonstrate)
- that current trends are such that the scenario you envision may one
- day potentially materialize. Otherwise, your musings aren't really
- much more than intellectual masturbation.
-
- > Can it happen? Sure.
-
- Hah! Very doubtful. Many more cops would be quitting than getting
- shot long before the fatality rate reached your supposed figures.
- --
- The views expressed herein are my || Theodore A. Kaldis
- my own only. Do you seriously || kaldis@remus.rutgers.edu
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- this would hold such views??? ||
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