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Lethality, guns, knives, & reality
Hi,
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> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 13:05:12 -0800
> From: Tim May <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
> Also, the "boiling a frog slowly" metaphor comes to mind...most people have
> little idea how the vise has tightened. And in the case of "gun rights,"
> most Americans are apparently of the opinion that their lives will be safer
> if all guns are banned.
>
> (Which may be true, if _all_ guns were banned.
The last time I looked at the FBI stats on homicide deaths by beatings with
clubs, hands, and feet were much larger than homicides by gun or knife.
trivial dribble:
Nifty thing I found out today is that the cleaner that I use on my
whiteboard at work burns quite rapidly.
Jim Choate
CyberTects
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