A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Weiser says:
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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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I'll not dispute your sources and data.... except, as you well know,
because you presented this data, the definitions of various sorts of
crimes vary considerably from country to country. What may be deemed an
assault in one country may not be recorded as an assault in another.
Thus, the stats may not be comparable.

The stats are entirely comparable. The nations involved have long ago agreed
on the definition of "violent crime" and they compile the data in quite
similar ways, and they share the data routinely.


Thus, whether I'm trying to "bend" the debate is hardly the point. The
point is, more or less, a murder, is a murder, is a murder, no matter
where we are on the globe. Murder stats are comparable. The others
aren't.

This is simply a lame attempt on your part to evade the fact that you are
wrong by trying to define away the facts.
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