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    The document discusses a survey of felons that found 72% would switch to sawed-off shotguns if handguns were unavailable. Shotguns can cause more fatal wounds than handguns at close range. While there may be fewer firearm murder attempts if handguns were banned, the result could be more murder victims as shotguns are deadlier at close range where survival is rare.

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    AT NEG world does not prove that crime rates overall will be lowered

    Guncite.com explains, http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gchandgu.html

    National Institute of Justice survey of felons


    found that 72% of felons
    who use handguns said they would switch to sawed-off shotguns if handguns
    became unavailable.
    Shotgun
    wounds at close range are generally much more often fatal than handgun
    wounds.
    A

    in state prisons

    (Handgun Bans: Peril or Protection? The Risks and Benefits of Handgun Prohibition (238K), Kopel, David B. Also Wright, James D. and Peter H. Rossi, Armed and

    Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and their Firearms, Aldine De Gruyter, 1986). This means there might be fewer murder attempts with a firearm, but more murder victims could be the result.

    "Shotgun injuries have not been compared with other bullet wounds of the abdomen as they are a thing apart ... at close range, they are as deadly as a cannon." (R. Taylor, Gunshot Wounds of the Abdomen,

    177 Annals of Surgery 174- 75, 1973. Cited in Kopel above). "At close range, survival is rare"

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