--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "handsonmaui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good point Gullible Fool. > > Your example of Houston vs. Israel shows why statistics can be so > misleading. Just a quick google and I found there were 26 gun > homicides in Iowa (3 year average 2000 - 2002). Iowa population was > just under 3 million (haven't checked recently) compared to Israel's 7 > million. So just roughly doubling the rate is seems Israel is almost > twice as dangerous to live in as far as gun homicides than Iowa! > What's wrong with those gun toting violent Israelis ;^). > > Another interesting stastistic from the CR Gazette... > > "Number of deaths from firearms for every 1,000,000 people in the > following countries in 2003: > > - Brazil: 213 > > - South Africa: 126 > > - United States: 41 > > - Canada: 5.1 > > - England and Wales: 0.3 > > - Japan: 0.3" > > The US certainly could do better but whoa... what is it like to live > in Brazil? They must have like 25 guns per person or something. Can > you imagine going out to eat and taking a couple of minutes to unpack > all the guns so you sit and enjoy you meal in unencumbered safety? > > HandsOn > >
***************** The availability of handguns is clearly not the relevant factor in SA and Brazil. The Gini ratios are very unfavorable in both countries, and this means that the poor are going to be violently doing whatever they need to survive -- would anybody be happier if they were using machetes instead of handguns? Axe handles and like instruments killed ~800,000 in the Rwanda slaughter of 1994, so talk about guns being the problem seems pretty silly. http://www.warmafrica.com/index/geo/5/cat/1/a/a/artid/557
