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From: richard@gryphon.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Nothing to do with Gun Nuts
Message-ID: <1877@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 19:08:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 19:08:18 1987
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In article <21230@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> DU.UUCP (James Wilbur Lewis) writes:
>-
>-Actually... Consider this:
>-
>-1)  England has gun control.
>-2)  There were about five gun related deaths in the entire COUNTRY
>-    last year.
>-Therefore,
>-3)  Either
>-	a) Gun control works,
>-    or
>-	b) the English couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.
>
>Or c) England has a much lower violent crime rate *across the board*,
>due to major sociological differences between Britain and the USA.
>The USA crime statistics include areas where *millions* of people
>live in overcrowded, economically depressed areas like Harlem, East
>Oakland, the Tenderloin, etc...how many British people live in
>comparable areas?  A fair comparison would be to look at Britain
>versus North Dakota, Alaska, or some other sparsely-populated
>state, which closely approximates the economic and population density 
>distribution of Britain.  

Compare the ratio of total population to area for the U.S. and the
U.K. and I think you'll find the U.K. is more densly populated.

And the British economy should be so lucky to be doing as well
as that in Harlem...

>
>-- Jim Lewis

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