The quoted statement is contained in a piece on so-called "assault weapons" by Gary Kleck in the NYT. I have it somewhere in my office. ************************************************** Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M. o- 651-523-2142 Hamline University School of Law (MS-D2037) f- 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c- 612-865-7956 [email protected]
>>> "C. D. Tavares" <[email protected]> 06/09/09 12:46 PM >>> On Jun 8, 2009, at 11:38 PM, C. D. Tavares wrote: > And, although it doesn't concern CCW, my personal favorite: (Don't understand why my last quote went MIA): Joseph Constance, deputy chief of the Trenton, N.J., police department, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August of last year: "Since police started keeping statistics, we now know that assault weapons are/were used in an underwhelming .026 of 1% of crimes in New Jersey. This means that my officers are more likely to confront an escaped tiger from the local zoo than to confront an assault rifle in the hands of a drug-crazed killer on the streets. -- Escape the Rat Race for Peace, Quiet, and Miles of Desert Beauty Take a Sanity Break at The Bunkhouse at Liberty Haven Ranch http://libertyhavenranch.com ( http://libertyhavenranch.com/ ) _______________________________________________ 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 Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
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