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I find it weirdly fascinating that after 1980, the gun curve and the other curve are almost perfect mirrors of each other. (whenever the gun goes up, other goes down, and vice versa). knife attacks HAVE increased more than 300% in the years covered by the chart. that is significant, I think. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > look at the chart for various forms of homicide since 1961 in Canada: > > http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11738/c-g/E-11738-c-g-03.gif > > http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11738/c-g/desc/desc03-eng.htm > : > > when I run it through SPSS, the homicide rate for knives since 1961 > did not covary with firearms by a significant amount (p > .05). > > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yeah, take away the guns and they will use other means to kill. > > > > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/12/04/homicides-statistics-canada- > > 2011.html > > > > Seems that Canadians like knives now, and the recent statistics prove it. > > > > On 3/25/13 5:55 PM, "Larry C. Lyons" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >>At the same time you need to look at the Canadian firearm related > >>homicide rates > >>(http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11738-eng.htm). > >>For Canada, there were 158 homicides committed with a firearm in 2011, > >>13 fewer than the previous year. The 2011 rate of 0.46 firearm > >>homicides per 100,000 population was the lowest in almost 50 years. > >>Over all the rate for substitution methods of homicide over the same > >>50 year period have not shown a correlated increase. While there was > >>an increase in homicides by knives in 2011, overall there has not been > >>a statistically significant increase in other means of homicide from > >>1961 through 2011 as a function of the decrease in firearm related > >>homicides. Similar results have generally been found in Australia > >>since 1996 and in Britain since 1990. > >> > >>Moreover it is my impression (have not run the stats on this one yet) > >>whenever there is a tightening of the Canadian firearm control laws, > >>there has been a corresponding decrease in firearm related homicides. > >> > >>Its clear that National firearm control laws work, that is what the > >>Canadian data shows. So 2nd amendment worshipers, how many children > >>must be sacrificed on the altar of the Second Amendment? How many is > >>that total? Or can we break that down by year? How about publishing > >>the pictures of every child killed by a firearm weekly on the front > >>page of every newspaper and as the lead on every tv news show. > >>Seriously what will it take? > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:362074 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
