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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: handgun control
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 18:48:32 EST
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> Many people in this debate have suggested that absence of gun control
> in the US is not responsible for the number of killings in the US. In other
> words, if people in the US didn't have guns there would be more murders
> with knives, clubs etc. The implication of this is that the US culture
> is more oriented to murders and violence than other Western countries.
> 
> This is a generality which seems to me to be absurd. Could it be that
> the iresposible few in the US are more iresponsible than the equivalent
> in the Europe? If so why?
> 
> Mike Williams

Why?  Because the U.S. is not Europe.  Because the U.S. does not have a
small, homogeneous population like your country does (relatively speaking,
anyway).

Actually, the most common crime is not murder or assault, but theft.  And
I think Sweden (you are in Sweden, aren't you? :-) has more of it than the
U.S.

Note:  This posting does not imply that I am either for or against gun
control.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." - Foghorn Leghorn