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From: david@randvax.UUCP (David Shlapak)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Gun Control
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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 12:07:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 28 12:07:30 1985
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> I can't site you references because I didn't take notes along the way.  I would
> suggest you take a look at some of the NY Times or Daily News archives for the
> period, visit a good police crime museum or wait until some of the better gang
> war movies show up on your TV.  If you can't do that, try visualizing "Hill
> Street Blues" moved back in time and technology to that period.  The gang war
> segments they show are not too far from reality.  I understand the series is
> based on the "hill" district in Pittsburgh.  If it is, you won't be too far off.
> I know. That's when and where I grew up.
>       -Phil


Thanks for establishing that the "zip gun" (where did you get the idea that
the term offended anyone?) was a way for one hood to kill another thirty years
ago...now how about establishing that it's a significant problem today...
it is, after all, today's handgun victim's that we can do something about...

					--- das