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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 15:43:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Pittsburgh, PA alone has about that many offenses each month. Maybe it's
> because we spell offenses with an "s" rather than a "c."
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> > If handgun ownership were deregulated here, I expect both numbers would rise.
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> That suggests an interesting thought experiment, which I pose to our resident
> self-proclaimed "gun toting yahoos" as follows:
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> 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?
Well you would kind of have to now wouldn't you? Of course enacting regulation
in the first place and no impact on the crime rate so I don't see why
deregulation would either.
-Mike Petrucelli
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| (...) The latest stats for Scotland show: Handgun crime is lower now than 10 years ago (they were “banned” in 97). 50% of gun crime involves air weapons. Gun deaths per 100,000 = 0.12 (in the USA it is 4.08 - that's 3400% higher!) I think overall (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Pittsburgh, PA alone has about that many offenses each month. Maybe it's because we spell offenses with an "s" rather than a "c." (...) That suggests an interesting thought experiment, which I pose to our resident self-proclaimed "gun toting (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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