-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Lambert Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gun Crime Down in Britain
>>"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 >> <snip> > >> 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 Dr. Lambert cites the BSC which has problems as I've previously reported and as mentioned again in the Guardian article posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specifically, 'The shadow home secretary, David Davis, said the BCS did not record "various categories of violent crime", including murder and rape, retail crime, drug-taking, or offences in which the victims were aged below 16. "The most reliable measure of crime is that which is reported to the police," he added. "We're facing over a million violent crimes a year for the first time in history."' Also, the violence figures used by Dr. Lambert bury serious violent crimes in the larger number of less serious offenses. Except for murder (largely driven by the U.S. illegal drug trade and involving criminal on criminal attacks), our violence is lower than Britain's. And Britain's serious crimes grow in numbers year by year. Phil _______________________________________________ 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.
