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From: cjh@ihuxr.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Handguns as a deterrent to crime
Message-ID: <628@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Sep-83 06:34:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 12 06:34:45 1983
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Controling handguns to reduce crime will not substantialy reduce crime except
in the cases of accidental shootings and crimes of 'passion'. Anyone who wants
a gun can always get one as long as there are standing armies in the world.
You can buy a rocket launcher, morter, sub-machine gun or hand grenage on
the streets of almost any major city in america. If you remove the possibility
of gun ownership from the people crime will possibly increase. Someone with
a knife will attempt to rob anyone in the street if they know that there is a
90% chance the victim doesn't have a gun. They will have to be desperate to
try if there is a 90% chance the intended victim has a gun. The criminal with
a gun will try under either case.
Guns are not a 'god' given right, but until human beings become 'civilized'
they are necessary.

I will give up my guns, knives and black jacks ONLY when everyone else does,
		C. J. Holzwarth
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