Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt 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 Article-I.D.: dciem.1296 Posted: Wed Dec 19 20:57:14 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 22:00:05 EST References: <245@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <268@ccice6.UUCP> <162@mhuxr.UUCP>Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 21 Summary: >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 {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt