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[Nathaniel Florin <npflorin AT yahoo.com>]

> Automobiles probably kill more people than guns do;
> why not ban them?

Dogs kill far more people than tigers. Why not replace
Fido and live like Siegfried & Roy?

> I wonder what the national statistics are for folks
> who die from being
> stabbed, strangled, poisoned, beaten to death, or
> run down intentionally
> with a car?

According to the Dept. of Justice, from 1993 to 2001,
70% of homicides were committed with a gun (56% of the
total involved a handgun).

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/wuvc01.txt

Murder by strangling and knifing and all take a very
long time, and are thus physically and mentally
difficult. Alfred Hitchcock taught me that. 

Nate