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Re: The Montreal massacre - this date, 1989....

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From: Colin R. Leech
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <pfuchs-1712950041250001@p23.pm-1.dimensional.com> Paul Fuchs 
 (pfuchs@dimensional.com) wrote:
 
> I would just like to point out that I heard on our NPR (National Public
> Radio) a few months ago, and they are one of the strongest journalism
> organizations around, that the per capita murder rate in these USA are
> **TEN TIMES** that of Canada.

Pretty shocking, isn't it? Canadian rates are much more similar to most 
other Western (i.e. European) countries than to the USA.

> I would suspect that there are several
> reasons for this, but the most dominant one is undoubtedly that even your
> previous level of gun control has been much greater than in the USA.

Yup.

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From: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech)
Subject: Re: The Montreal massacre - this date, 1989....
Date: 1995/12/19
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