On Sep 30, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
> Also interesting for the statistics mongers in the crowd:
>
> How worried should we be about the extent of gun crime on our
> streets?
> Richard Ford, Home Correspondent
>
> Sometimes, listening to politicians, police and the media, it can
> sound as if there is a gun-toting criminal on every street
> corner. The truth is far more nuanced. Serious gun crime is
> concentrated in particular parts of England and Wales;
> internationally, the country has a low death rate from guns
> compared with EU states such as France and Finland.
Of course, the fallacy here is that "gun crime" is an important
statistic to reduce, when attempts to do so have caused all other
categories of violent crime to soar.
In a society where the average person is absolutely forbidden to
carry anything that might serve as a defensive weapon (Two sticks?
Try one stick!), as well as to employ any kind of lethal force even
in their own homes unless they can prove that the other guy had
already killed them first, only the most incompetent thug would
actually need a gun.
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