look at the chart for various forms of homicide since 1961 in Canada: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11738/c-g/E-11738-c-g-03.gif http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11738/c-g/desc/desc03-eng.htm:
when I run it through SPSS, the homicide rate for knives since 1961 did not covary with firearms by a significant amount (p > .05). On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, take away the guns and they will use other means to kill. > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/12/04/homicides-statistics-canada- > 2011.html > > Seems that Canadians like knives now, and the recent statistics prove it. > > On 3/25/13 5:55 PM, "Larry C. Lyons" <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >>At the same time you need to look at the Canadian firearm related >>homicide rates >>(http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11738-eng.htm). >>For Canada, there were 158 homicides committed with a firearm in 2011, >>13 fewer than the previous year. The 2011 rate of 0.46 firearm >>homicides per 100,000 population was the lowest in almost 50 years. >>Over all the rate for substitution methods of homicide over the same >>50 year period have not shown a correlated increase. While there was >>an increase in homicides by knives in 2011, overall there has not been >>a statistically significant increase in other means of homicide from >>1961 through 2011 as a function of the decrease in firearm related >>homicides. Similar results have generally been found in Australia >>since 1996 and in Britain since 1990. >> >>Moreover it is my impression (have not run the stats on this one yet) >>whenever there is a tightening of the Canadian firearm control laws, >>there has been a corresponding decrease in firearm related homicides. >> >>Its clear that National firearm control laws work, that is what the >>Canadian data shows. So 2nd amendment worshipers, how many children >>must be sacrificed on the altar of the Second Amendment? How many is >>that total? Or can we break that down by year? How about publishing >>the pictures of every child killed by a firearm weekly on the front >>page of every newspaper and as the lead on every tv news show. >>Seriously what will it take? >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:362073 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
