🚀 go-pugleaf

Colin R. Leech (ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote:
: Larry Phillips (larry@furble.signs.eh) writes:

: > while
: > increasing the chances of the criminal not having to face a gun barrel
: > when mugging someone or breaking into someone's house.

: Oh yeah, we should all become vigilantes. Riiiiight. A criminal is going
: to be scared off from robbing a house based on a perceived threat that
: there might be a gun inside? In that case the good ol' USA should have an
: extremely low break-in rate, inversely proportionate to their gun
: ownership rate. Maybe you should look at the stats sometime.
:  


  Heh...maybe YOU should, fool:


  The residential/commercial burglary rates in Canada are (respectively) 
33% and 25% HIGHER than those of the United States...and have been 
consistently higher for more than a decade now!

  (where *do* you get your information from, anyway??)


  A 1978 study of residential B&E's in Toronto alone reported that 44% of 
the dwellings were occupied at the time, and that 21% resulted in 
confrontations between the victim and the offender(s).  

  The 1982 British Crime Survey reported that 59% of attempted burglaries 
and 26% of completed burglaries took place while someone was at 
home...compared to only _12.7%_ of residential burglaries in the United 
States against occupied homes.  Hardly takes a 'genius' to figure why, 
does it? 

  (Canadian Crime Statistics; Unified Crime Reports for the United States 
1991, FBI; Residential Burglary: A Comparison of the United States, Canada, 
England and Wales (National Institute of Justice, Washington DC, 1987))



  Keep it up, Colin...you're doing just great...  ;)