At 08:22 PM 6/11/01, Patrick Sweeney wrote:
>"John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
><<The evidence does not back you up on this. Two people loaded to the
>hilt with weapons entered an American High School near Denver, and only
>killed a
>few more than 8 kids.>>
>
>12 students and 1 teacher killed, and 23 others injured. The two shooters
>had a semiautomatic pistol, two shotguns and a rifle.
I think the point was that two killers in Colorado armed with multiple
firearms and explosives killed 13 and injured 23, while one man in Japan
armed with a knife killed 8 and injured 15, i.e., _two_ people with
firearms caused about 1 1/2 times as many casualties as _one_ man with a
knife, which does _not_ support the hypothesis that a person armed with
modern firearms is necessarily likely to kill many more people than a
person in the same situation armed with a knife, since in this case the
number of victims per killer was smaller for the killers using firearms
than for that one using a knife.
Of course, the sample size is too small to draw any general
conclusions. And I for one hope we don't get a larger sample.
-- Ronn! :)
