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Subject: a gun control question - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 16:04:00 EDT
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A first comment regarding this week's news: as far as I can see,
the McDonald's massacre got less coverage in the press than the
Miss America fiasco. Hmm...

Regarding the shooting, I ask the gun control dissenters, why it is
that RANDOM murders take place almost only in this country? If it is NOT
because of the fact that the US has far looser guns controls than
say, Western Europe, Canada etc., why is it?  Do you wish to claim
that such senseless slayings would take place even if there were the 
strictest of gun control? If so, then we need to start a discussion
about the differences in our society and those where such murders don't
take place. 

                                    S. Krolikoski
                                    u of illinois at U-C
                                    ...!pur-ee!uiucdcs!stank

If not the difference in gun control, why the difference in the crime
statistics in the NY Times and the London Times?