Here's the link to the study referenced below: http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publications/LibraryReport_PrairieCrimeRates_2005_03_07.doc
> PUBLICATION: [Canadian] NATIONAL POST > DATE: 2005.05.09 > COLUMN: Lorne Gunter > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Gun control myths just won't die > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > Now the Library of Parliament has released a comparison of violent crime > rates in the Northern Plains states versus Canada's Prairie provinces. > The simple conclusion: Rates of gun ownership among law-abiding private > citizens have no effect on crime. > > Despite having nearly twice as many households with guns as their Canadian > counterparts -- and similar economic, cultural and social demographics -- > Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and Idaho have lower crime rates than > Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Researchers determined "both violent > and > property crime rates were two-thirds higher in the Canadian Prairie > provinces than in the four border states." > > Murder was 1.1 times higher; violent assaults and attempted murder, 1.5 > times; robbery, 2.1 times; breaking and entering, 2.3; and vehicle theft, > 3.2. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
