A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Further stats on murder rates per 100,000 pop (for year 2000)

London, England 2.59
Belfast, Northern Ireland 7.43
Edinburgh, Scotland 1.10
Paris, France 4.10
Berlin, Germany 2.20
Athens & Pireus, Greece 0.53
Dallas TX, USA 20.63
New York NY, U.S.A. 8.69
San Francisco, CA, USA 7.73
Washington DC, U.S.A. 41.78

WAIT! THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT!!!! Scott promised us that, if the populace
were armed, they'd be able to fend off the nasty perpetrators of evil
-- those who would murder us. But look! Where guns are prevalent,
people get killed. Whoops!?

Absolute numbers are less important than the rate of change for gun-owning
versus gun-banning societies, something that you deliberately choose to
ignore.

[Fer Criisssakes! Belfast has a LOWER murder rate than San Francisco!
How does that happen?]

More guns.

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Scott Weiser

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