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Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:25:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
> Where I live only 1 or 2 home-owners are killed by burglars each year. In
> 2000 there were a total of 64 ([sixy-four]) handgun offences in Scotland.
Pittsburgh, PA alone has about that many offenses each month. Maybe it's
because we spell offenses with an "s" rather than a "c."
> If handgun ownership were deregulated here, I expect both numbers would rise.
That suggests an interesting thought experiment, which I pose to our resident
self-proclaimed "gun toting yahoos" as follows:
If the UK were to deregulate gun ownership, and if gun violence were to
increase subsequently, what might you suggest as an explanation?
Would you identify a correlation?
Dave!
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| (...) Ah. But I don't live in the USA; I live in Scotland (think Whisky, Haggis, Great Scenery & Rain). Where I live only 1 or 2 home-owners are killed by burglars each year. In 2000 there were a total of 64 (sixy-four) handgun offences in Scotland. (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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