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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: More on Handguns
Message-ID: <408@ihuxb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 18:09:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 24 18:09:32 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Oct-83 05:18:43 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
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On Friday, October 21, 1983, here in Chicago, a judge was killed
IN HIS COURT by a defendant at a post-divorce hearing.  The
defendant in the hearing killed the judge by shooting him
in the head with a handgun he had concealed under a blanket
(the defendant was a paraplegic in a wheel-chair).  The defendant
was, incidentally, an ex-policeman.

Please tell me how the banning of handguns would have prevented
this tragedy (I bring this up due to another anecdote from Chicago
presented to the net regarding a handgun killing).  This was a
premeditated killing since the man had carefully concealed
his handgun on his person prior to entering the court.  Chicago
has a very strict handgun registration law.

Even if Chicago (or Illinois or the US or North America) had banned
all handguns, this man would have been able to procure one certainly
by illegal means.  So no matter what, the judge (and the attorney
for the plaintiff) would have ended up dead.  This man planned
to commit murder and all the handgun controls that can be devised
could not have prevented him from doing this.

Allen England at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
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