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in article , BCITORGB
at wrote on 2/26/05 7:08 PM:
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!?
[Fer Criisssakes! Belfast has a LOWER murder rate than San Francisco!
How does that happen?]
frtzw906
Sigh.
There's no way that even a gun nut really believes that a community without
guns is going to have more gun deaths than a community with guns. Right?
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