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From: crrob@sony1.sdrc.com (Rob Davis)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,rec.backcountry
Subject: Re: Insane Gun-toting Wackos Unite!!!
Summary: backcountry
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Date: 16 Apr 93 14:48:43 GMT
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  fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary @ University of Colorado, Boulder):

>I don't know about animal attacks, but there are 23,500 murders
>each year and under 500 die in the manner you suggest. If only
>2.1% of the murders were killings by "wacko"s, you would be
>wrong. Worse, there are also 102,500 rapes and 1,055,000 aggravated
>assaults each year. These numbers make violent attacks, and
>preventing them, thousands of times more significant than the
>accidents you are worried about.
 
 These stats are invalid; we're talking BACKCOUNTRY. These stats for
 rapes/assaults/deaths do not represent the backcountry singularly; the
 great majority represent urban incidents. You should have pointed this out.

  -Rob
