From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 06:27:17 +0800
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids
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On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote:
> At 03:38 PM 7/23/96 -0400, hallam@Etna.ai.mit.edu wrote:
> >The facts are very clear, if you have a handgun in the house it is
> >far more likely to kill a member of the familly than stop an
> >intruder. The NRA know this which is why they have lobbied for the
> >CDC to stop research in this area - they do not like the facts.
> And most people who die after jumping out of airplanes have (defective)
> parachutes.  Therefore it is safer to jump out of airplanes without parachutes.
> The CDC sucked suicides into the mix to cook the books and suicide by
> firearms is a *legitimate* use of same.  Surely you believe in the "right to
> die," don't you?

     Why is the CDC getting involved in gun death? Is lead a virus? Can you 
catch Colt .357itis? Is there a vaccine that doesn't leave you brainless and 
statist?

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com