Platt
I don't really care about the gun control/right to bear arms issue. The way
you wrote it made it sound that crime rate is directly related to gun control.
There's lots of factors related to crime rate. That's all I wanted to say.
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Americans constitute one of the most heavily armed societies in the developed
world,with 40%of households containing guns.1 U.S.homicide rates are two to
ten times higher than in other developed countries.2
Violence is a complex phenomenon that cannot be attributed to any single
cause. However,the outcome of a violent incident is dramatically influenced by
the weapons or methods used.Whether from assault or self-inflicted injury, the
likelihood of death is especially high when a gun is involved. As
criminologists Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins have pointed out, this is
the main reason why the U.S. homicide rate far exceeds those of other
comparable Western countries: assaults in the United States more often involve
guns, and thus more often result in death. 3
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(I JUST THOUGHT THIS WAS FUNNY)
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as
I'm the dictator."
- George W Bush (See CNN transcript from 12/18/2000)
After that, the NRA has finally won me over -- we all need guns now.
Erin
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