--- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 02:11 am, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > --- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In fact the whole of Europe has much lower homicide > >> rates than the USA, > >> and much stricter gun control. > >> > >> -- > >> William T Goodall > > > > _But_, just to complicate things a bit (I'm an > > agnostic in this particular debate) it has higher > > levels of violent crime overall (a fairly recent > > phenomenon), and a far more homogenous population, > > with massive underreporting of crimes committed > > against minorities (i.e. Arabs in France). > > It's a fact that Europe has lower homicide rates than the USA. If we > accept that it actually is a more violent place overall then this is > excellent evidence that gun control works to reduce homicide is it not? > > And I would rather be mugged or get some broken ribs or whatever than > be shot dead.
Persony I would rather have the lowlifes shooting eachother more and me not be the vitm of violent crime where the perp uses knives and clubs. ===== _________________________________________________ Jan William Coffey _________________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l