So Brian, just how many more guns is going to take in private hands to bring the U.S. crime rate to the U.K. crime rate?
http://tinyurl.com/2bcjek U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said. U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies. About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said. > On 8/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The UK has a long long way to go to catch up with the U.S. in crimes >> involving guns. In 2005, there were 419,000 crimes using guns in the >> U.S. >> The population of the U.S. is approximately 5 times larger than the >> U.K. >> Home come we *18* times the number of crimes involving guns per capita >> than the UK? >> >> Richard > > I think you missed the point - guns are BANNED in the UK (have they > banned swords yet? Knives too, right?). > > Besides, crime has been falling in the US for several years while it > has been climbing in other countries. > > Another key to look at is type of crime. For instance, the UK has 10 > times as many (if I recall the comparison correctly - and I may not > be) the number of "hot burglaries" - presumably because the criminals > in the UK are armed and not worried about their victims being armed > (since, after all, the victims are generally law abiding citizens and > not "allowed" to possess tools of self-defense). > > BUT, lets not continue this discussion here, I do not wish to "offend" > the poor folks who are reading for fun security related topics only > and there's nothing funny about not being able to provide your own > security. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
