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From: phil@zeus.fasttax.com (Phil Howard)
> Eric Woolfson <woolf@unicom.net> writes:
> 
> >     Florida passes a concealed weapons law, crimes goes down.
> >     Morton Grove bans guns altogther, crime goes down.
> >     Texas makes no weapons law changes, crime goes down.
> >
> >     See a pattern there, do you?  
> 
> It would mean that guns are irrelevent.  But then, one fact is wrong.
> Crime went up in Morton Grove for 5 years after guns were banned.
> 
        Well, let's look at the figures:
        
        12 years before the gun ban  -  58 robberies
        12 years since the gun ban   -  35 robberies
        
        12 years before the gun ban  -  227 burglaries
        12 years since the gun ban   -  139 burglaries   
             
        Source: Chief of Police George Incledon, quoted in 
        an AP article on the 12 anniversary of the Morton 
        Grove gun ban
 
> The cause of the crime is unrelated to existance or lack of guns.

         Only GUN crime and GUN deaths - which, so far, 
       constitute 70% of ALL American murders. 

        EW