> "The Home Office figures - which exclude crimes involving air weapons -
> show the number of deaths and injuries caused by gun attacks in England > and Wales soared from 864 in 1998-99 to 3,821 in 2005-06. Actually, it's virtually impossible to draw meaningful conclusions either way from Home Office figures, as the only thing that doesn't keep changing in the way firearms-related crimes are reported is their inconsistency. For instance, while that figure doesn't include air weapons, it does include imitation weapons and injury includes "used as a threat" as well as physical injury. You might want to go back to source: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb0207.pdf -- David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP Director of Malware Intelligence, ESET _______________________________________________ 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.
