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Re: Bowling for Columbine - Stats

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From: Daniel Grimwood
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:08

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In wa.general Stygen <.> wrote:
> If we take population into account, we can estimate your chances of being
> shot to death this year;
> Australia:        1/300,000
> Canada:        1/200,000
> France:        1/240,000
> UK:            1/900,000
> Germany:    1/200,000
> Japan:        1/3,000,000
> US:            1/25,000

> So living in the US makes you ten times more likely to be shot dead..
> niiiiice.

How does this compare with being stabbed to death, or any other means of
killing?  It's a pretty useless statistic on its own without knowing these
other factors.

Daniel.

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From: Daniel Grimwood <reaper@theochem.uwa.edu.au>
Newsgroups: wa.general,iinet.general,wafreenet.general
Subject: Re: Bowling for Columbine - Stats
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:08:48 +0000 (UTC)
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