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To: Fangorn who wrote (20)	4/26/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: paul t	Respond to of 149

Lastly, you asked for some reference to the number of firearm fatalities, this cites 1996 data showing 35,000+ firearm deaths in the U.S. Below refers to accidents but ... "The annual number of fatal firearm accidents has also fallen to an all-time low (1,134), cut by more than half since 1930, even as the population doubled and the number of firearms owned quadrupled. By comparison, other types of accidents accounted for much larger numbers of fatalities in 1996, including motor vehicles (43,649)" nraila.org ... I guess we'll be banning cars now as this proves that people are more likely to die from a car than a gun! And to think cars aren't known for killing yet guns are.