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If Guns Are Outlawed, Outlaws Will Use Crossbows
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<p><a href='http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/6862693.htm'>This</a><br />
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happened about 15 minutes from where I live:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Police in West Chester are looking for an assailant they believe used<br />
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a crossbow to shoot a pedestrian from a passing SUV.</p>
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<p>The victim, a restaurant worker who was walking home along High<br />
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Street early Sunday morning, was shot in the stomach with a 16-inch<br />
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hunting arrow. He was released Wednesday from the University of<br />
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Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.</p>
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<p>Benito Vargas told police he was at the corner of High and Barnard<br />
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Streets at about 1 a.m. when he saw the white SUV’s driver-side window<br />
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slide down, revealing the front part a crossbow just inside. Seconds<br />
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later, he was lying on the ground.</p>
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<p>[...]</p>
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<p>“This thing would be silent. You wouldn’t hear any noise,” West<br />
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Chester Detective Thomas Yarnall said. [...] Yarnall said the<br />
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shooting appeared random [...]</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>Gives a whole old meaning to the phrase “looking for a quarrel”,<br />
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which in fact, originally referred to a crossbow bolt.</p>
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<p>UPDATE:(Well, maybe. Some etymologists think the noun quarrel and verb quarrel have<br />
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separate origins.)</p>
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<p><a href="http://enetation.co.uk/comments.php?user=esr&commentid=106505931820320870">Blogspot comments</a></p>
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