A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Weiser says:
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The United States, despite its high murder rate, was among the
middle ranking countries with a 21 percent victimization rate,"
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Whoooaaaa!! Let's not gloss over this one eh? After all, we are talking
about the impact of guns -- things that KILL -- in this thread.

That may be what you're trying to bend the debate to, but that's not what
I'm talking about.

I'm talking about the rate of violent victimization overall and the impact
that banning guns has on the rate at which people are victimized.

The facts are quite clear: In nations where guns are banned, victimization
by violent criminals increases dramatically. In the United States, crime
victimization by violent criminals is dropping.

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