<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Easily found:<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate</a></span><br>Compiled from FBI uniform crime reports, here's the ranking by violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants (murder, manslaughter, rape, armed robbery & aggravated assault)<br><br>Detroit 2289<br>St. Louis 2198<br>Memphis 1951<br>Oakland 1918<br>Baltimore 1631<br>Atlanta 1624<br>Nashville 1509<br>Minneapolis 1503<br>Miami 1492<br>Philadelphia 1475<br>Cleveland 1465<br>Stockton, Ca. 1419<br>D.C. 1347<br>Rockford Il. 1244<br>Indianapolis 1234<br>Toledo 1238<br><br>Chicago is absent from the list, since their definition of rape doesn't match the UCR standard, but eyeballing the statistics for murder and
other violent crimes, they're well down the list. I dunno about gun laws, but my guess is that you'd have a hard time making any correlation.<br><br>Ron Force<br>Moscow, ID USA<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> lfalen <lfalen@turbonet.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, November 30, 2009 11:52:21 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Schroeder's Tactics Underhanded<br></font><br>
Roger Falen stated:<br><br>"I think Chicago and DC are two. I am not going to go back and look it<br>up. You can find out by reading The American legion Magazine or NRA or<br>possibly you can google it."<br><br>Or (maybe) you can substaniate your own claim with real statistics,<br>instead of having us look them up for you.<br><br>If this were a junior high assignment, Roger, you would receive an "F".<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br><span> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a> </span><br> mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"
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