On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 04:43, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > How do you know that? Have you lived in Australia or Britain? Have you actually > looked at the official statistics or simply some biased interpretation by the > National Redneck Association [sorry, couldn't resist ;)]? The Australian Bureau > of Statistics (a government body, but their methodology is well-documented and > sound) has shown time and time again that reducing the number of weapons > _reduces_ crime. Some years back (IIRC, it was 1996) we had a big (by Australian > standards) gun massacre in the state of Tasmania. After that, the government > initiated a gun buyback and confiscation scheme, and crime rates dropped. The > City of Sydney introduced restrictions on knives a few years ago; that also > reduced the crime rate.
Well, I've been looking carefully at everything, and my personal end consensus is that I happen to side with Eric Raymond on these issues. And that's way before I knew his position. LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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