Re: Re: knife ban going to work?

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Brian Loe wrote:

> On 5/25/06, Jarrod Frates <jfrates.ml () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > It was a small fraction *before* the gun ban.  Through much of the
> > United States, the murder rate is much closer to (though still
> > somewhat higher than) that of much of Western Europe.  Poorer
> > neighborhoods, however, tend to have very high levels of crime,
> > including murder, and since our "poor" areas can encompass tens or
> > even hundreds of thousands of people, the aggregate numbers can change
> > significantly.
>
>
> Excellent point. Take out the murders related to the illegal
> trafficking of drugs and our murder rate would probably drop to a
> world-wide average.

Even better - take out the drugs-related murders, the domestic murders, 
the robbery-related murders and the murders for all other motives, and 
your murder rate drops to the very desirable rate of  ... ZERO.

If you count the tail as a leg, how many legs does a dog have?

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