Re: Gun FACTS

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From: Joshua R. Poulson
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 14:11

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In article <3dtcdg$72h@nyheter.chalmers.se>,
Mats Olsson <matso@dtek.chalmers.se> wrote:
>    Eh? Are you certain you want do build your case using statistics that
>seem to prove that Sweden has three times more violent crime than the USA?
>And 12 crimes per 100 citizens... ? Even the NRA puts violent crime
>belov 1000 per 100k citizens even in the USA.

That's total violent crimes including things OTHER than guns.
A lot of people like throwing around the violent crime statistics
where there ARE guns.

Yet another case where the people in the United States show that
they have access to better tools than most of the rest of the
world... except when it comes to effective guns like assault
rifles made after 1986.
-- 
Joshua R. Poulson, jrp@teleport.com, http://www.teleport.com/~jrp/jrp.html

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From: jrp@widcat.Widener.EDU (Joshua R. Poulson)
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Subject: Re: Gun FACTS
Date: 29 Dec 1994 09:11:57 -0500
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