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- From: tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich)
- Subject: Re: Home made rockets
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 17:14:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.234101.1@stsci.edu> hathaway@stsci.edu writes:
- >into little brass containers, stick lead plugs in the ends for projectiles
- >and SELL the stuff to all sorts of people to use in things called "guns".
- >"(according to the U.S. General Accounting Office) 138,490 Americans
- >have been killed or wounded over the last 10 years by gun-wielding
- >_children_ under _six_ years of age." Definitely Just Not Worth It.
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- iMaybe you ought to distinguish between 'killed' and 'wounded'. I don't
- believe you have the correct figures there.
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- Of course, you miught mention that 500,000 have _died_ over the
- last 10 years in automobile accidents. Perhaps we ought ot simply
- outlaw automobiles of all sorts because they cause deaths.
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