[Vision2020] Can Gun Control Reduce Crime? (was 11 year girl)

[Tom Hansen]

Extracted from:

"Table 1 - International Firearms Regulation, Access and Death (2001)" at
http://www.guncontrol.ca/Content/international.html

Country: Japan  
Prohibits handguns with few exceptions  
Households with Firearms: 0.6%  
Gun Homicide (per 100,000): 0.03  
Gun Suicide (per 100,000): 0.04 
Total Intentional Gun Death (per 100,000): 0.07

Country: United States
Households with Firearms: 41%  
Gun Homicide (per 100,000): 6.24  
Gun Suicide (per 100,000): 7.23 
Total Intentional Gun Death (per 100,000): 13.47

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

PS to No-Clue - My father was an officer with the LAPD for 36 years.  Two
things he seriously supports: use of seat belts and gun control.


-----Original Message-----

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On Behalf Of heirdoug at aim.com
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:35 AM
To: ophite at gmail.com
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com; idahotom at hotmail.com; fotopro63 at hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Can Gun Control Reduce Crime? (was 11 year girl)



Thank you Andreas for once again not reading the article before making 
another one of your famous generalizations.

Still batting 1000.





-----Original Message-----

From: Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com>

To: heirdoug at netscape.net <heirdoug at netscape.net>

Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com; idahotom at hotmail.com; fotopro63 at hotmail.com; 
heirdoug at aim.com

Sent: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:27 am

Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Can Gun Control Reduce Crime? (was 11 year 
girl)



















On 7/26/07, heirdoug at netscape.net <heirdoug at netscape.net> wrote:



> I found this to be similar to what I was taught 40 years ago as a 
small



> boy by my father, a nine year veteran of the Berkly PD and a 35 year



> veteran of the Army.  I know of two sheriffs departments and one 
police



> department who believe the same thing. An armed populace is the best



> deterrent to violent crime. As G.Gordan Liddy's wife told her 5



> children when face to face with a burglar, "Watch children while 
mommy



> scatters the bad man's brains all over the wall."





This is why countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, where every adult



owns an assault rifle, are amongst the most peaceful in the world,



quite unlike the apocalyptic dystopia of Great Britain, where no one



does.





-- ACS












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