Good point Gullible Fool. Your example of Houston vs. Israel shows why statistics can be so misleading. Just a quick google and I found there were 26 gun homicides in Iowa (3 year average 2000 - 2002). Iowa population was just under 3 million (haven't checked recently) compared to Israel's 7 million. So just roughly doubling the rate is seems Israel is almost twice as dangerous to live in as far as gun homicides than Iowa! What's wrong with those gun toting violent Israelis ;^).
Another interesting stastistic from the CR Gazette... "Number of deaths from firearms for every 1,000,000 people in the following countries in 2003: - Brazil: 213 - South Africa: 126 - United States: 41 - Canada: 5.1 - England and Wales: 0.3 - Japan: 0.3" The US certainly could do better but whoa... what is it like to live in Brazil? They must have like 25 guns per person or something. Can you imagine going out to eat and taking a couple of minutes to unpack all the guns so you sit and enjoy you meal in unencumbered safety? HandsOn --- In [email protected], gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You can't draw conclusions about gun control based on > Houston and Israel being the same size. 96 percent of > the population of Israel consists of but two ethnic > groups. Most of the city shares the same religious > beliefs. Israel is a nation, with a population that is > spread out amongst different cities and rural areas, > while Houston is a crowded city, and a pretty large > one at that. Houston is the fourth largest city in the > US, with a population that is 50 percent minority and > 20 percent illegal alien. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Texas#Demographics > > --- giovanni santostasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Please, look at CNN video news in the CNN website > > called "Bearing Arms". > > It talks about gun law in Israel. Israel is one of > > the most violent places on earth, and though it is > > not easy to get a gun. The gun laws are similar to > > almost any other civil place in the world: months of > > paper work, multiple security clearance, valid > > reasons to get one, background checks and so on. > > The results: about 100 homicides in a year in a > > population of 7 millions, in contrast in Houston in > > the same time period the homicides were about 200 in > > a town with a population that 30 % the population of > > Israel. That is just one of the city in USA. > > You can reproduce such calculations everywhere in > > the industrialized world and find out over and over > > and over the same results. > > Guns kill people and the presence of more guns > > kills even more people. > > It is a fact, no discussion about. > >
