Re: wow - is a "shadow" politician still a politician?

[rms () computerbytesman com]

So Brian, just how many more guns is going to take in private hands to
bring the U.S. crime rate to the U.K. crime rate?

http://tinyurl.com/2bcjek

U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens,
making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released
on Tuesday said.

U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms,
according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate
Institute of International Studies.

About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each
year are purchased in the United States, it said.




> On 8/28/07, rms () computerbytesman com <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
> > The UK has a long long way to go to catch up with the U.S. in crimes
> > involving guns.  In 2005, there were 419,000 crimes using guns in the
> > U.S.
> >  The population of the U.S. is approximately 5 times larger than the
> > U.K.
> > Home come we *18* times the number of crimes involving guns per capita
> > than the UK?
> >
> > Richard
>
> I think you missed the point - guns are BANNED in the UK (have they
> banned swords yet? Knives too, right?).
>
> Besides, crime has been falling in the US for several years while it
> has been climbing in other countries.
>
> Another key to look at is type of crime. For instance, the UK has 10
> times as many (if I recall the comparison correctly - and I may not
> be) the number of "hot burglaries" - presumably because the criminals
> in the UK are armed and not worried about their victims being armed
> (since, after all, the victims are generally law abiding citizens and
> not "allowed" to possess tools of self-defense).
>
> BUT, lets not continue this discussion here, I do not wish to "offend"
> the poor folks who are reading for fun security related topics only
> and there's nothing funny about not being able to provide your own
> security.

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