RE: 30 days in the hole [WARNING-TOPIC DRIFT]

["Rob Winchell" <rbw@avs.com>]

STOP IT!!!!!!

No gun-control threads! Please!!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]On Behalf Of Phil Payne
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 11:48 AM
> To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: 30 days in the hole [WARNING-TOPIC DRIFT]
>
>
> In message <199808251413.KAA12239@guru.ai.net> Fringe Ryder writes:
>
> > In 1991, there were over 3000 gun deaths
> > in London alone.  (And this info comes from the Sunday Times of
> Britain.)
>
> I got a private copy and didn't realise it was also going to the list.
>
> I'll keep it brief - a House of Commons Written Reply on 13 January 1997
> gave the total for firearms-related deaths in the UK in 1995 as 259.
>
> The corresponding figure for the USA is 36,671 - 141 times as many.
>
> > Fringe
> > '97 A4Q 2.8L stick
> > (and NRA member)
>
> Why am I not surprised, with information as distorted as that?
>
> > (and AOPA member - funny, we get a LOT of U.K. student pilots in America
> > due to UK regs.)
>
> No - due to UK airspace restrictions and weather.  There are serious
> concerns in Germany in particular about their lack of training in
> European weather.
>
> --
>  Phil Payne
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>