Some small corrections:

"Joseph E. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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").

If folks would look at the actual figures they would see that these
claims are obviously false.  Looking at the homicide figures for
Scotland, you can see the spike from Lockerbie.  And the ridiculous
claim that Japan counts murder-suicides of families as suicides is
easily falsified by looking at the age breakdown of suicides -- they
are no (that is zero) suicides of small children.

> Apparently (if the news article are factual), the UK rate has been
> skyrocketing in the post-Dunblane years.

The violent crime rate in England has decreased significantly since
1997.  We already did this discussion last year.  I still have the
graph at
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/malcolm.html

--
Tim

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