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Subject:	Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:06:27 GMT
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> Nope. I hadn't read anything about that. It sounds like a dumb stance on both > sides. Here is a snip from a note I posted on another forum in a discussion > in which a Welsh woman was asserting that she was statistically safer than I > was. Well it looks like she is less likely to be murdered. By chance I found this: http://www-nt.who.int/whosis/statistics/whsa/whsa_table4.cfm?path=statistics,whsa,whsa_table4&language=english I know some numbskulls don't like UN stats, but it gives us this: 1997 Homicide (male) USA : 11.8 per 100,000 England & Wales : 0.8 per 100,000 (6.8% of the USA level) Scotland : 2.8 per 100,000 (23.27% of the USA level) NI : 2.5 per 100,000 (21.19% of the USA level) Iceland (1995) : 0.0 per 100,000! I expect that there is much more to these numbers than just the gun issue. Scott A

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		Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment)
(...) Interesting. A) Does the difference in these stats and the ones I cited suggest that one set is incorrect, or do you think the difference between violent crimes (my stats) and murder (your stats) is really that lopsided? It makes it sound like (...) (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment)
(...) change (...) much (...) Nope. I hadn't read anything about that. It sounds like a dumb stance on both sides. Here is a snip from a note I posted on another forum in a discussion in which a Welsh woman was asserting that she was statistically (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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