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ot; treaty on controling guns in out society
"nfw" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:51:59 -0600, Chemiker >
> wrote:
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>>On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:30:44 +0000, Luke Curtis
> wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:57:02 -0800, (Jason) wrote:
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>>>>In article
>,
>>>>Aussie-PL > wrote:
>>>>Homicide
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>>>USA (2001) 3.98
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>>s.>England/Wales (2002) 0.15
>>>Scotland (2002) 0.06
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>>>I know where I would rather live, somewhere where you are 26 times
>>>less likely to be killed by a gun.
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>>I notice you do not differentiate between homicides and firearms
>>related homicides. FWIW: I've owned a number of firearms since I was
>>a young man. Over the past 50 years, none of my guns has ever snuck
>>out and killed someone. Even my pistols with hi-cap magazines (gasp!)
>>are well behaved. Fancy that.
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> In the U.S. for 2006, there were 30,896 deaths from firearms, distributed
> as
> follows by mode of death: Suicide 16,883; Homicide 12,791; Accident 642;
> Legal
> Intervention 360; Undetermined 220. This makes firearms injuries one of
> the top
> ten causes of death in the U.S. The number of firearms-related injuries in
> the
> U.S., both fatal and non-fatal, increased through 1993, declined to 1999,
> and
> has remained relatively constant since. However, firearms injuries remain
> a
> leading cause of death in the U.S., particularly among youth (CDC, 2001)
> (CDC,
> 2006).
Canada has relatively strict gun control rules and in 2000, the risk of
firearms death for U.S males was 3 times higher than for Canadian males and
for U.S. females it's 7 times higher.
Go figure!
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