In a message dated 7/4/98 3:09:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, neptune@mars.superlink.net writes:
<< Don't shut up about it! I believe I read in either Benson's _The
Enterprise of
That's five murders for, what, a population of less than 2000? I don't think
that NYC has five murders per every hundred thousand.
Law_ or Friedman's _The Machinery of Freedom_ that Dodge City's worse
year had only five murders. That's hardly material for one episode of "Gun
Smoke" -- much less a year in highly gun controlled New York City.:)
>>
Andrew