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From: bch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes )
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Missing Handgun
Message-ID: <5902@unc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 12:57:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 21 12:57:07 1983
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It is quite possible that the handgun laws prevented Karl's nightmare
from becoming a massacre.  Suppose the attacker had *also* been armed
with a handgun.  Would you two have shot it out in the parking lot
with your wives and children  (and who knows who else) at risk?  The
thought frightens me as much as the original situation.  No, there is
no way to protect yourself from genuinely crazy people, but I'm not
sure that a handgun is a panacea in this case.  It only escalates the
situation to an even greater level of violence.

					Byron Howes
					UNC - Chapel Hill
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