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From: roth@coldbeer.UUCP
Newsgroups: misc.headlines,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Replying to Gun Nuts Propaganda (was COMPUTER USER...)
Message-ID: <246@coldbeer.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 23:39:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: coldbeer.246
Posted: Mon Oct 12 23:39:53 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Oct-87 06:45:24 EDT
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Summary: What? Has the IRA succeeded in separating Northern Ireland from Great Britain?

In article <826@pbhyc.UUCP>, djo@pbhyc.UUCP (Dan'l DanehyOakes) writes:
# In article <21198@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jwl@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (James Wilbur Lewis) writes:
# 
# Actually... Consider this:
# 
# 1)  England has gun control.
# 
# 2)  There were about five gun related deaths in the entire COUNTRY
#     last year.
# 
# Therefore,
# 
# 3)  Either
# 	a) Gun control works,
#     or
# 	b) the English couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.
Or you don't count the carnage in Northern Ireland where draconian laws haven't
stopped people who hate each other from senseless slaughter.
Or your statistic is only for the Kingdom of England and excludes Scotland, 
Wales, Nothern Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, etc. Must have
been an off year for homicide in England last year. Maybe bombs and knives
were more fashionable.
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