At 6:30 AM -0500 12/15/03, Phil Lee wrote: > Concerning "the Justice Department has reported that assault weapons >represented 1.2 percent of the guns used in crimes in 2002 down from 3.6 >percent in 1995," I wonder whether the 1.2% represent only AWs defined by >the federal gun control law or whether they include the functionally >similar guns.
More likely, if the usual dance is being done here, the phrase "used in crime" have nothing to do with the actual use of a gun at all. For example, after the cops break in the door of a counterfeiter, child molester, meth cooker, or whatever, and take the residents off in manacles, they search the building. Any firearm found is logged and eventually makes its way into a report as a "gun used in crime" -- even though the gun was never actually involved in printing bogus hundreds, abducting little boys, or titrating Clorox into Robitussin. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://alum.mit.edu/www/tavares | RKBA! The school teams, called the Rebels, have as their logo a mustachioed, desperate-looking fellow who used to be armed with six-guns. Those guns were taken away and replaced by a sword. Then the sword was taken away. Now, the school's new nonviolent Rebel merely points upward. --NORMAN DRAPER, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE Have you checked to see what finger he is using? _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof
