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Re: More ammunition?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 6 Jan 2004 04:44:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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Snipped the second URL, it seems munged, but you can go upthread to find it.
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Gun deaths in Toronto was up 35 percent in 2003 from 2002. 60 gun related
deaths and 300 gun related injuries.
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That’s a small number from a large population. Is the increase statistically
significant?
Also on the Australian stats cited upthread, what is/was the overall suicide
rate in Oz? How has it changed? 4/5 of the total gun deaths across the 10 year
period seem to be suicides. Have other sorts of suicides (knives, exhaust,
jumping in front of trains, whatever) gone up? What about the overall violent
crime rate?
One needs to do some more digging before those stats have meaning, I think.
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| (...) I think that was his point? (...) If you read the cited text you'll see data with suicides excluded: "Homicides dropped to 47 in 2001 from 84 in 1991, accidental deaths dropped to 18 from 29, while other forms of firearm deaths slipped to (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Gun deaths in Toronto was up 35 percent in 2003 from 2002. 60 gun related deaths and 300 gun related injuries. 60 in a town of 8 million (one quarter the pop of Canada, btw) Eh, not the debate I want to start the year with. Dave K -"outta my (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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