From: James Daugherty <jhdaugh@a-albionic.com>
Subject: Real Gun Facts vs Media Propaganda
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 09:13:16 -0400

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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 06:48:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: James Fish <jfish@execpc.com>
To: fwiw@execpc.com
Subject: [FWIW] Assaulting the facts...

FWIW

        ANTI-GUN DEBATE
        ===============

        Writing in the March issue of Chronicles, Jerry Woodruff,
        president of the American Policy Institute, catalogued
        some of the false and distorted arguments and statistics
        that underpinned House debate on the "assault" weapons
        ban.  Many House members (Woodruff cited 11 as examples)
        twisted data regarding the tracing of guns by the Bureau
        of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) to imply that all
        such tracings entail guns used in crime.  Yet the ATF itself
        has acknowledged that "sometimes a firearm is traced simply
        to determine the rightful owner after it is found by a law
        enforcement agency."

        Representative Vic Fazio (D-CA) claimed that the ATF had
        reported in 1989 that "assault weapons made up ten percent
        of guns traced in crimes."  But Woodruff points out that
        less than four percent of all homicides involve rifles of
        any sort, and "LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of homicides involve
        rifles of a military caliber, according to the FBI Uniform
        Crime Reports for 1990." (Emphasis in original.) In contrast,
        "fists and feet are used to kill five percent of victims,
        and knives account for 14.5 percent of murder weapons."

        At one point during the debate, Representative Wayne Gilchrist
        (R-MD), apparently alive and well, declared: "I took a bullet
        from an AK-47; I can attest to their deadliness."  Such was
        the caliber of debate that preceded House approval of the ban
        by a razor-thin 216 to 214 margin.

        [end]

Source: The New American
        Gun Report
        June 12, 1995, p.34

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