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From: manes@magpie.linknet.com (Steve Manes)
Subject: Re: Gun Control (was Re: We're Mad as Hell at the TV News)
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 22:40:11 GMT
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J. Spencer (J.M.Spencer@newcastle.ac.uk) wrote:
: manes@magpie.linknet.com (Steve Manes) writes:

: >Jim De Arras (jmd@cube.handheld.com) wrote:
: >: > Last year the US suffered almost 10,000 wrongful or accidental
: >: > deaths by handguns alone (FBI statistics).  In the same year, the UK
: >: > suffered 35 such deaths (Scotland Yard statistics).  The population
: >: > of the UK is about 1/5 that of the US (10,000 / (35 * 5)).  Weighted
: >: > for population, the US has 57x as many handgun-related deaths as the
: >: > UK.  And, no, the Brits don't make up for this by murdering 57x as
: >: > many people with baseball bats.

: [snip]

: If you examine the figures, they do. Stabbing is favourite, closely
: followed by striking, punching, kicking. Many more people are burnt to
: death in Britain as are shot to death. Take at look and you'll see for
: yourself. 

It means that very few people are shot to death in Great Britain.
-- 
Stephen Manes					   manes@magpie.linknet.com
Manes and Associates				   New York, NY, USA  =o&>o

