"Joe E. Dees" wrote:
>
> Date sent: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 19:24:20 -0400
> From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mike@lorrey.com>
> >
> > These are accident rates, not crime rates. Get your facts straight. Accidental gunshot
> > related injuries for 1995 for people under 15 or 18 was about 250. Using suicides or
> > criminal on criminal gun violence as justification for controlling law abiding usage
> > is insane, about as insane as using government perpetrated gun crime in europe to
> > justify taking civilian guns away.
> >
> The precise figures for 1995 are as follows:
> a)Justifiable Homicides.....................................616
> b)Murders...................................................13,790
> (total homicides)( a + b) ----------------------------------------------------14,406
> c)Suicides..................................................18,503
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Total........................................................ 32,909
> >
You did not even mention accidental deaths, which is what we were talking about. Stop changing the subject.