Re: Fewer guns, more crime.

[Joseph E. Olson]

It's my understanding from talking a Home Office person at the ASC meeting in Toronto that sectarian killings are not included in the UK homicide figures (a practice similar to the way Japan treats "family suicide").  I gave a cite to the newspaper report.  I expected no one to confuse it with "peer reviewed" social science research.   It is my understanding that , in general, while awash with instruments of killing US violent crime rates vary within a fairly narrow range.    Apparently (if the news article are factual), the UK rate has been skyrocketing in the post-Dunblane years.   *********************************************************************** Professor Joseph Olson     Hamline University School of Law tel.   (651) 523-2142          St. Paul, Minnesota  55104-1284 fax.  (651) 523-2236          <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/29/03 01:40PM >>> The UK rate is somewhat distorted by the ongoing civil war in Northern Ireland, which has a homicide rate about three times that of the rest of the UK.