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To: Dan from Michigan

"About 17 employees are murdered every week in American workplaces by someone with a gun, making gun-related killings the third-biggest safety hazard facing American workers -- right after vehicles and machines."

884 a year. Is this an OSHA statistic? Seems one would see a daily national story by the gun-grabbing liberal MSM if this were the case. Does this include officers killed in the line of duty? I bethcha it does.


13 posted on 08/24/2005 3:22:41 PM PDT by torchthemummy (Col. Beckwith: Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
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To: torchthemummy
884 a year. Is this an OSHA statistic? Seems one would see a daily national story by the gun-grabbing liberal MSM if this were the case. Does this include officers killed in the line of duty? I bethcha it does.

If you look at the quote, notice it doesn't say "by a fellow employee". If a convenience store cashier is killed in a robbery, that's a "workplace murder"

29 posted on 08/24/2005 3:29:51 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: torchthemummy

"About 17 employees are murdered every week in American workplaces ...'


They pull these numbers out of thin air, repeat them ad nauseum and nobody ever calls them on it. I once heard a Boston tv nooz anchor repeat an alleged statistic implying that 52 six year olds shot their five year old friends in the head with daddy's unlocked pistol EVERY DAY. Hmmmmm, think it would be nooz if 52 six year olds were killing their little friends EVERY DAY?


36 posted on 08/24/2005 3:35:30 PM PDT by agitator (...And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark)
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To: torchthemummy
"About 17 employees are murdered every week in American workplaces by someone with a gun, making gun-related killings the third-biggest safety hazard facing American workers -- right after vehicles and machines."

884 a year. Is this an OSHA statistic? Seems one would see a daily national story by the gun-grabbing liberal MSM if this were the case. Does this include officers killed in the line of duty? I bethcha it does.

The way liberal gun banners skew figures and statistics it almost certainly also includes any bad guys killed who were coming to the work place to kill his bosses and/or coworkers.

41 posted on 08/24/2005 3:45:25 PM PDT by RJL
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