Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 09:14:17 -0700
From: crowtalk@THERIVER.COM (Joe Horn)
Subject: Re: The American Gun Death Con]
To: AZRKBA@asu.edu


I just found out this was a deadpan PARODY of statistical lying by the
Left.
Duh..fooled me..

----- Original Message -----
From: "C. D. Tavares" <Tavares@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
To: <AZRKBA@asu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: The American Gun Death Con]


> At 10:22 PM -0700 6/30/01, you wrote:

>

> >> I thought that traffic deaths and firearms homicides

> >> (of all types, defensive and felonious) were about the same,

i.e.,
> >> 35,000 + or -

>

> > No. Even when you add accidental firearms deaths and firearms

suicides
> > (which are the lion's share) to firearm homicides (let's say about

10K per
> > year) we still have traffic deaths several thousand higher per

year.
> >

> > I left my death stat book at work so this is from memory.

>

> Books, schmooks.  Try the handy interactive calculator at

> http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrte.html .

>

> For 1998 ("all intents," meaning accidental AND purposeful):

>

> Motor Vehicle Overall: 43,647

> Firearms:              30,708

>

> Several thousand higher?  Rather, say over 40% higher!

> --

> Tavares@alum.mit.edu  |  http://home.earthlink.net/~cdtavares  |

RKBA!
>

>

> The pessimistic people who swear, "only the police and military

should have guns," in addition to having a dismal view of their fellow
man, must think that cops and soldiers are raised in test tube
colonies using the combined DNA of Mother Teresa, Hercule Poirot and
Dick Tracy. Having been both soldier and cop I can assure you this is
not true.
> --CONSTABLE JOHN A, GAYDER, NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO

>