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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: handgun control
Message-ID: <1296@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 20:57:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 20:57:14 1984
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Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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>That's not the point he was making. Does anybody have any statistics for,
>say, knifing deaths in countries like Britain that have gun control? I 
>suspect that it's higher per capita than in the US. It's much worse in
>most cases to be stabbed than shot, so maybe giving the criminals guns
>so that they don't have to use knives is a good idea...
>
>        Wayne

Sorry, no numbers at hand... But what is usually quoted in such comparisons
is not the relative number of handgun killings, but the relative number
of murders.  This usually shows the US to be higher by one or two orders
of magnitude than other Western countries  (maybe I exaggerate a bit, but
not much).  If this is the case, I shouldn't think knifing murders would
be much more in Britain than in the US, and might be fewer.  Killing isn't
a response to a traffic annoyance that you hear of in most countries.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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