On 23/01/2013 7:55 PM, Pete C. wrote:

>>
>> The overwhelming majority here seem to like it that way, including
>> this gun owner. Go figger... our murder rte is lower, our firearms
>> homicide rate is much lower. People here just don't feel a need to be
>> armed for self defence, and there are fewer victims. If guns were useful
>> for self defence, you should expect the exact opposite.
>
> Your murder rate in your big cities is fast approaching those of our
> festering big cities. Our crime rates outside of those festering big
> cities are little different than your crime rates.


IF that were true, our respective murder rates would be similar. They
aren't. The US murder rate is double that of Canada.



> Anti-gun types like
> to hype up total US homicide rates, but the reality is that nearly all
> of those homicides are criminal gang members killing other criminal gang
> members in very small geographic areas. The vast majority of the US and
> of the US population is entirely unaffected by those gang issues.


If it is just gang members killing each other there isn't much need to
Joe Homeowner to be so concerned.

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