On Dec 22, 2:13*am, "nom=de=plume" wrote:
"Bill McKee" wrote in message

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"jps" wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:08:38 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:00:08 -0800, jps wrote:

Nope, just stab wounds. *Good thing she didn't have a gun, eh?

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -
A Missouri teenager is accused of stabbing a man with an ice pick in a
dispute over a parking spot.

Eighteen-year-old Caitlen Watkins of Springfield was charged Monday in
Greene County with first-degree assault and armed criminal action.

According to court documents, Watkins and a passenger in her car
confronted another driver Sunday in the parking lot of a shopping
center after he took a parking place Watkins wanted.

Witnesses told police a fight broke out and the other driver was
stabbed half a dozen times with a wooden-handled, 5-inch ice pick.
Police say the other driver suffered a punctured kidney.

A judge set Watkins' bond at $75,000. She did not have a lawyer. She
has not yet had a hearing or entered a plea.

It is good for her that he didn't have a gun

Yup.

Actually the death rate from knife wounds and handgun wounds is about the
same. *20-22%. *This excludes minor cuts where the knife does not really
enter the body.

You're looney...

http://www.mail-archive.com/firearms.../msg00867.html

"The U.S. murder rate is 55 per million, according to the FBI. Of those, 70%
of murders were committed with firearms; just 14% involved knives or cutting
instruments."

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Nom=de=Plume

Your inability to reason is showing. Your statistic shows how many
people choose guns (70%) as compared to knives (14%) to commit
murder. Bill's statistic (the death rate) shows how many of each kind
of attack are actually fatal, 20-22%. Two different things, at least
to thinking people.