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Re: My Gun Control Rant
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:21:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Powell writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tim Culberson writes:
> Nope, simply not true. How many deaths by knife are there in comparison to
> those by gun in the US each year?
How do those numbers compare in the UK? What if you add in all non-firearm
(non vehicular) murders?
> I'm willing to bet that the death rate by firearms in the UK is substantially
> less than the death rate by firearms in the US , eh?
I'd bet so.
> I'm also willing to bet that the difference in the knife deaths in the UK and
> the USA do not make up for the above difference,if you use deaths per 100,000
> rather than strictly by numbers.
Maybe Brittons (is that right?) are less likely to kill one another. You can't
suggest a causal relationship based on such flimsy speculative evidence.
> It takes much less physical will to kill someone with a knife than with a gun.
I agree...at least if you mean the opposite.
Chris
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| (...) I don't have time to grubb about too much, but I did find this: There were 98 murders in Scotland in 1999 (Scotland has the worst rate in the UK). The population is ~6M (10% of UK) - so that gives a murder rate of ~1.63/100K. Gun murders (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Nope, simply not true. How many deaths by knife are there in comparison to those by gun in the US each year? I'm willing to bet that the death rate by firearms in the UK is substantially less than the death rate by firearms in the US , eh? I'm (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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