Right, that was my sense, too. Yet Chris' data shows the level of violence in Costa Rica to be relatively high.
I've visited the country's central and northwestern areas, and did hear that the east coast area had a higher crime rate. Wheer was your experience? Lawry -----Original Message----- From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Christoph Reuss'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Re: gun violence (was Re: Minuteman Groups) Lawry, I'm not sure of whether by "ranked so poorly" you mean that Costa Rica should have had more deaths or fewer. I spent almost a month in rural Costa Rica last year and found it to be one of the most peaceful places on earth. Of course, the cities may be different. Ed > Chris, I'm only surprised that Costa Rica ranked so poorly. Did you find any > further information on that? > > Lawry > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 6:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Futurework] Re: gun violence (was Re: Minuteman Groups) > > > However, guns are responsible for many, many, deaths. Yet, > > a study of violent countries made a couple of years ago made > > the UK the second most violent country. > > > > First was Australia and Switzerland was third. > > > Harry had it pretty much backwards, as usual: > > > http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_mur_wit_fir_cap > > Murders with firearms (per capita) > ================================== > 1. South Africa 0.71 per 1000 people > 2. Colombia 0.50 > 3. Thailand 0.31 > 4. Zimbabwe 0.04 > 5. Mexico 0.03 > 6. Belarus 0.03 > 7. Costa Rica 0.03 > 8. United States 0.02 > ... > 19. Switzerland 0.00 (*) > ... > 27. Australia 0.00 > ... > 32. United Kingdom 0.00 > ... > > (*) The two major killings of the past years were performed by > Austrians with non-military firearms. > > Chris > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword > "igve". > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
