"Joe Sylvester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Message: 1 >>Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:29:45 -0600 >>From: "Peter Boucher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Gun Crime Down in Britain > > >>http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime/guncrime/index.html > > > >>"Contrary to public perception, the overall level of gun crime in this >>country is relatively low - less than half of 1% of all crime recorded >>by the police - and in the year ending 31 March 2003, there was: > >>* a 16% reduction in homicides involving firearms >>* a 13% reduction in robberies involving firearms > >>Even so, we have seen an unacceptable rise in gun crime over recent >>years, and are doing everything we can to tackle it. > > Why bother with expending specific effort on "gun crime" when it is already > so low? The real question is what has happened to the overall violent crime > rate. Criminals won't risk a stiff sentence for a "gun crime", if they know > can get by without a gun. If most of citizenry is disarmed, then criminals > have less need for a gun. Again the real question is, does a disarmed > citizenry lead to more or less violent crime, everything else being equal?
Violent crime has decreased steadily since the 1997. The latest figures, released this month, show another decrease. Of course everything else isn't equal and there have been similar declines in the US, Canada and Germany. -- Tim _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
