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Re: Violence created by presence of guns? (was: Gotta love Oracle...)
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Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:19:37 GMT
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James Powell wrote:
> > And what about *inside* them? Are these three nations that homogeneous?
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> No, they are not. There is NO way that you can compare downtown Toronto with
> <snippage of a bunch of statistics>
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> - Guns were used in 30 per cent of murders; 31 per cent of victims
> were stabbed; 22 per cent were beaten to death.
> ...
> - In nearly nine out of 10 cases, the victim was known to the killer.
> Only 14 per cent of all murders were committed by strangers.
> So, I would take a fairly good chance that I would
> A) face a knife in a mugging in Canada (given the low number of stranger
> deaths)
Um, NO. That doesn't follow. Not unless every mugger in Canada kills their victim
every time (if that happened, you'd have a lot more citizens killing muggers, with
illegal guns if necessary).
The statistics you quoted have to do with deaths, which have almost nothing to do
with muggings, *especially* since, as you noted, there was a low number of stranger
deaths.
> Sorry, I can't spend forever digging for statistics :)
You'll have to dig more if you want to support your mugger scenario.
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