http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvintl.html shows gun death statistics for many countries. It is interesting to note that Japan, Australia, New Zealand, & Canada have very high suicide rates despite restrictive laws about gun ownership. BTW it looks like 95+% of the hits for "gun deaths" are antigun related.
Ciao, graywolf ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Stoddart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:02 AM Subject: Re: OT: Re: Australians > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Bob Blakely wrote: > > > I've tried to stay out of this OT thread > > Me too, but.... > > > Each year, approximately 150,000 folks are killed by physician and > > pharmaceutical error. Most of these folks were not involved in any life or > > limb threatening situation. This dwarfs folks killed in automobiles > > ~50,000 and those killed by firearms ~20,000. Presented for > > perspective... > > The BBC reckons 30,000 killed, 90,000 injured in the USA each year. Last > year the figure for England and Wales was.... 42 killed. Corrected for > population we'd probably be looking at about 6000 more dead peaple a year > if we had your gun laws. But think; 30,000 people dead! It strikes me > that America has gone to war and shaken up its entire society for 1/10th > of that number of people killed in New York. You can't dismiss 30,000 or > even 20,000 people as 'perspective'! > > But lighten up please, don't take this gun thing too seriously guys. The > thing is it's YOUR country and if you want guns then you can vote to have > them. However the UK and Australia are also democratic countries and by > and large we feel safer the way we are. Honest, we're happy, we don't > feel oppressed :-) > > Chris > -- > Dr Chris Stoddart: Unix SysAdmin, > Department of Computer Science, > Sheffield University, U.K. > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
