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matso@dtek.chalmers.se (Mats Olsson) writes:

> In article <Ba5JXc2w165w@aroga.com>, Orion <orion@aroga.com> wrote:
> #| Violent Crime Rates, World
> #| St. Kitts And Nevis         15,468.8
> #| Cayman Islands              13,081.2
> #| Sweden                      12,836.6
> #| Canada                      11,414.8
> #| Denmark                     10,500.4
> #| Finland                      7,668.8
> #| United Kingdom               7,395.6
> #| Australia                    6,773.19
> #| The Bahamas                  6,728.64
> #| Luxembourg                   6,280.83
> #| United States                5,664.2
> #| France                       5,619.11
> #| Austria                      5,288.2
> #| Norway                       5,220.43
> #| Switzerland                  4,988.02
> #|  Cases known to police per 100,000 inhabitants.  All penal offenses
> #|  detected by or reported to police, according to national crime
> #|  statistics.
> 
>     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.
> 
>     No offense, but statistics like this just goes to prove what Mark Twain
> said about lies.



  Don't tell me....tell InterPol (that you think they're lying).

  And Mark Twain, although he was a humorist, was probably half-right...
in *his* day.  Statistics are gathered and correlated somewhat 
differently today.

  (but if you're into quotes, how about this one: "an armed citizenry is 
the best defense against tyranny." (Thomas Jefferson))