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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Handguns: we're succumbing to mob rule
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Date: Sun, 11-Sep-83 16:07:07 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 11 16:07:07 1983
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>>      I, for one, would feel a lot safer if the only handguns around were
>>      in the hands of professional criminals.
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>>      omsvax!dps

Wow! There's not even a ":-)" after that statement! (Actually, from the context
it is obvious that this person really means it)

        Bill Pfeifer
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If you think about it for a few seconds or longer, you will see that
it is probably true. If the criminal is pretty sure you aren't going
to kill him with a gun, he is unlikely to use it as his first method
of defence. If he kills you, it will be from malice, not from fear.
Not only would all the shootings in murders of passion be eliminated,
but also so would most of those in the course of a crime. I, too,
would feel a lot safer if the only handguns outside of the police
and the armed forces were those owned ILLEGALLY by criminals.

Martin Taylor