Re: gun control means hitting Evan

jp may (jpm@TWEB.COM)
Sat, 23 Mar 1996 17:00:56 -0700

Ev:
>No, a trivial amount of people get killed by criminals, at least in
>Canada, especially once you eliminate (i) domestic homicides, and (ii)
>stabbings in bars. There's basically not much "killing by criminals"
>left after that. Heck, I lived in Winnipeg the year it was momentarily
>the murder capital of Canada (I think this meant 21 killings in 600,000)
>-- and still the chance of getting killed by criminals was essentially
>zero, unless (i) people in your family killed you, or (ii) you were in the
>wrong bars arguing with knife-wielding people. The odds of being killed
>by strangers in your home in anyplace I've ever lived simply aren't worth
>worrying about, and they sure as heck aren't worth doling out 400 million
>guns to the general populace. There just isn't _that_ much violent crime,
>and it hasn't increased at all in the last decade, in Canada or the US.
>

That's fair, I can see where you're coming from. I lived in Manhattan for
many years. I literally saw one guy get beheaded with a sword in a deli. I
saw two people shot to death on diferent occasions (central manhattan, main
streets, midday). I saw a drug deal in a sub go wrong and one guy was
not-fatally injured. Outside the chryselr bldg on 42nd and lex two gang
dudes stabbed each other mutually to death 20 inches in front of me at
about 11AM as I was wandering into the office. I stumbled upon at least,
oh, 4 people who were severely mugged/raped whatever (typically in downtown
manhattan) when I was coming home late. Once a random nut bust down the
door on a friend's apartment, wandered in, shot up the walls, yelled a lot
and blew his own brains out. (!) I found a taxi driver who'd been
murdered in brooklyn once. Living on White st. I heard a shot one day and
on the news the next day it was a lady had been shot in the head to death
out on the street by a car-jacker type .. what can I say?

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