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Re: My Gun Control Rant
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:43:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Powell writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tim Culberson writes:
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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?
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> How do those numbers compare in the UK? What if you add in all non-firearm
> (non vehicular) murders?
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> > 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?
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> I'd bet so.
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 _alone_ in the USA give a rate of 5.55/100K (1997
stats).
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> > 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.
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> 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.
We don't kill one another, we mostly just smirk a lot.
> > It takes much less physical will to kill someone with a knife than with a gun.
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> I agree...at least if you mean the opposite.
I agree.
Scott A
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> Chris
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| (...) How do those numbers compare in the UK? What if you add in all non-firearm (non vehicular) murders? (...) I'd bet so. (...) Maybe Brittons (is that right?) are less likely to kill one another. You can't suggest a causal relationship based on (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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