A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 24-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Still, even if it weren't, banning guns only results in MORE gun related
deaths, not fewer. Just ask Britain, Australia and, yes, Canada.

Absolute bull****. There are _far_ fewer gun deaths in those countries.
In fact, there are far fewer murders of any type in those countries.
The US has the highest murder rate and highest gun death rate of any
western country.

The issue is not the absolute number of violent crimes it's the TREND of
violent crime associated with the banning of guns.

Canada might reach absolute numerical parity in gun deaths with the US in a
few years, but it'll take a long time because there are so few Canadians,
comparatively speaking.

What's of interest is the increase in the per-capita RATE of violent crime,
which is indeed skyrocketing in Britain and Australia, increasing in Canada,
and dropping in the US.
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