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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] And just to REALLY annoy the gun-control advocates, (and possibly a few Canadians), More actual factual data, w/sources! Contrast the city of Chicago, which had tightened its concealed carry law, vs. the state of Florida, which loosened its law. Chicago's action followed a period of several years when the proportion of homicides committed in the city with handguns had been failing, a trend which stopped immediately; theproportion of homicides committed with handguns has increased substantially since. (Wall Street Journal, March 25, 1991) By way of contrast, Florida has experienced a phenomenal 29 percent decrease in its homicide rate since it eased its concealed-carry law (Time, March 27, 1995), "Each year there are at least 2.5 million defensive uses of guns by crime victims, about four to five times the number of crimes committed with guns." (Kleck and Gertz in Social Pathology, January 1995). In The New England Journal of Medicine, November 10, 1989, the authors tried to make a case for gun control as crime control by comparing homicide statistics from Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. But what came to light was that the homicide rate for "Non-Hispanic Caucasians" (about 75 percent of the population in both cities) was actually lower in Seattle, with all its lack of gun control, than it was in Vancouver. Actually, Vancouver's experience is one of many examples of a gun ban being followed by an increase in the homicide rate. In the seven years following British Columbia's ban, Vancouver's rate went up substantially ("Evaluation of the Canadian Gun Control Legislation." Elisabeth Scarff, Decision Dynamics Corporation). Like the gum commercial says... "Chew on this!" [/QB][/QUOTE]
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